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First Rule Humans First™ | We're Harmonizing AI with the Music Industry

We’ve had such a fun week hosting remote workshops facilitated by our incredible event partners, 1-on-1 feedback/insight...
03/27/2026

We’ve had such a fun week hosting remote workshops facilitated by our incredible event partners, 1-on-1 feedback/insight/guidance opportunities with the brilliant musical minds on our roster of Mentors, and watching our contestants share their findings, studio sessions, tool usage, and musical experiences across their Music City Make-A-Thon journey, powered by NVIDIA and ONCE.app!

🎶💪 Our contestants have shown grit, determination, and innovative & creative thinking as they’ve taken their stellar new tunes from start to finish in just 4 days!

🗳️ AND NOW, it’s time for YOU to plug in and vote on the future of music. Who will win? Humans (no AI) or Hybrids (AI-assisted)? Vote today @ https://www.firstrule.ai/musicCityMakeAThon/artists until 5:30pm CST today!

Then, vote for our separate Remote-track contestants’ song-submissions by tomorrow, Saturday, March 28th at 5pm CST and tune into our Humans-Only vs Hybrids finals tomorrow at 7pm via livestream - live-streaming link will be available soon in a separate post + in our bio + our Make-A-Thon web app! https://www.firstrule.ai/musicCityMakeAThon/artists

Y’all... we got ourselves a panel of judges with talent stacked higher than a pile of flapjacks at  | .kim_ +  +  +  + L...
03/25/2026

Y’all... we got ourselves a panel of judges with talent stacked higher than a pile of flapjacks at | .kim_ + + + + Lucas Cantor Santiago 🥞🤠 Pull yourselves and/or your team made up of any type of music-loving makers together, grab that dusty hard drive with all the heavy hitters you’ve been holding back, or start from scratch, and register before noon CST today (Wednesday, March 25) for music’s premier innovation experience, The Music City Make-A-Thon™, powered by and !

First Rule’s Music City Make-A-Thon Team is comprised of: & 🤘

03/22/2026

Y’all! 🤠 Only 9 hours left to register for music’s premier innovation experience - Register yourself or your team now via the link in our bio!

And listen, not only are you gonna be writing, rehearsing, and recording your new song this week, but you’ll have event partners helping you make the most of the plethora of their platforms, services, and tools that can help super power you along the way through their workshops + plenty of bookable mentorship opportunities being offered from brilliant minds like , , .kundu, , and Hemanth Ramia Jegdish! That’s a whole lotta goodness you can fit into your schedule the way it works best for you!

We feel very fortunate to be working with such an incredible ecosystem of music-loving makers, builders, and innovators!

03/22/2026

So you’re a remote Make-A-Thon contestant. And you’re a Hybrid, and proud of it. Well then, you’re gonna wanna use all of the amazing offerings Aiode has brought to the table for you to make AI-assisted music that stays rooted in human + artistic integrity!

Calling all music-loving makers! March 23-28. Only two weeks out!A very special thank you to our growing base of event p...
03/10/2026

Calling all music-loving makers! March 23-28. Only two weeks out!

A very special thank you to our growing base of event partner support for our Music City Make-A-Thon™, powered by and ONCE.app. It’s a Humans vs Hybrids Concept-to-Concert Sprint x Music Tech-Stack Hackathon across 6 days. March 23-28.

• Creatives/Music-Makers, get to writing, rehearsing, l recoding, and spreading the news about your forthcoming song.

• Builders/Hackers, create entirely new music tech of any kind, outfit your band, or create new workflow automations, and super power your music maker teammates.

Write a hit or an instrumental, whatever gets ears perked up and tuned in, and pro tip: build a music-driven experience in support of your single. Get creative! This is music’s premier innovation experience and you can only win the Grand Prize package (worth $7K) if you can perform your song live in Nashville on Saturday, March 28!

Remote and in-person workshops, panel discussions, and mentorship opportunities from great minds like at Berklee, from Vobile, of + + , and .kundu of Joker Deck VC.

Y’all, this is your chance to plug in and write the future of music!

Teams can have up to 10 members. Register today!

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03/02/2026

Music-loving makers of every kind: Sign up for music’s premier innovation experience before all team slots fill up! Powered by NVIDIA and

Write the future of music your way across six days of virtual educational panels & fireside chats, How To workshops with our partners like , , , , , .ai, , .studio, and many more + Mentorship opportunities from leaders at and of Vobile.

All while creatives sprint from song-seed to studio to stage as their hackathon teammates supercharge them with music tech stack innovations (not limited to coders and devs!). Judge + fan voting online Friday 03.27 after teams’ song-submission goes live through (in just 2 HOURS) decides which four finalists will compete live on stage to win it all, over $8K worth of music tech festival tix, premium music tech platform and tool subscriptions + a Santa Cruz Guitar Co acoustic!

Which track will you choose?

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New partnership announcement. New logo. Kicking the weekend off right.We’re excited to share that we will be partnering ...
03/21/2025

New partnership announcement. New logo. Kicking the weekend off right.

We’re excited to share that we will be partnering up with Musical AI to power our ClearVoice™ branch, enabling music makers everywhere to license their ethically trained + attributable agentic Musical Essence (M.E) Models™ in our forthcoming Co-Writer™ VST plugin! Dive into the details of what we’re building over at www.firstrule.com (link in bio)

Augmenting artists’ creativity and streamlining our offerings with their current production workflows, not replacing any of it, is part of our mission to Harmonize AI with The Music Industry. That’s First Rule in a nutshell—Humans First™

Shoutout to for connecting us to Matt and the Musical AI crew + .pr!

We’re proud to announce that we are officially Accelerated by  Inception! Being accepted into the Inception program is a...
05/09/2024

We’re proud to announce that we are officially Accelerated by Inception! Being accepted into the Inception program is an incredible opportunity for us and the future of music.

Can you guess why we added ’ new single to this post? Comment below with your answer!

We’re proud to be Nashvillians. After noting how well-timed our solution is during our Q&A at , Steve from  connected us...
03/28/2024

We’re proud to be Nashvillians. After noting how well-timed our solution is during our Q&A at , Steve from connected us with - Policy Director for - who, after hearing about First Rule, invited us to last week’s private signing ceremony of the ELVIS Act – a backstage pass to a historical moment in music and a real testament to First Rule’s burgeoning impact in the music industry.

Join the conversation by visiting our website via the link in our bio to learn more about our mission and explore opportunities for collaboration today.



📢🤘 Calling All Nashville Music Industry Pros! •From artists and songwriters to engineers and every role in between, we n...
03/04/2024

📢🤘 Calling All Nashville Music Industry Pros!

From artists and songwriters to engineers and every role in between, we need YOU to fill out the Greater Nashville Music Census. First Rule is proud to be a Community Engagement Partner of the GNMC and we’re excited to see how it will positively impact Music City and all of us music industry professionals.

If you live in and around the greater Nashville region, this is your chance to impact the future of Nashville‘s music scene. Visit www.musiccitycensus.com now and weigh in!

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