For seven years, Michael Smith ran one of the most audacious fraud schemes the music industry has ever seen. Using AI-generated songs and an army of […]
Stop giving away 15 cents of every dollar. Tidal just launched direct-to-fan downloads with a 90/10 revenue split — the most aggressive artist-friendly rate in the […]
Vercel AI SDK v6 just dropped sub-50ms edge runtime latency, streaming that starts at the very first token, and a 30% cost reduction through prompt caching. […]
Here’s a number that should make every producer and mastering engineer pause: the top 25 tracks on Spotify average -8.4 LUFS. That’s nearly 6 dB louder […]
Right now, as you read this, 60,000 people at NAMM 2026 are witnessing something that goes far beyond new gear announcements — music industry predictions 2026 […]
I’ve personally pushed releases through all three of these platforms over the past decade — and the “best distributor” answer changes completely depending on whether you […]
“The mix sounded perfect in the studio, but the bass completely disappeared on AirPods.” After 28 years in the audio industry, I’ve heard this complaint hundreds […]