Archive - MUSIC x

✘ All music is media - on value capture

And: Budapest Pride Ban; Hunting down AI songs; TikTok launches Fan Clubs; Algorithms killed discovery; Anthropic's use of copyrighted books ruled fair…

Jun 26 •

✘ Overcompensating with originality

And: Two-tier music streaming market; DJs' 1% reality; Indies rule; Radical sonic futures; Tropical technologist

Jun 19 •

✘ Has the time finally come for metered music experiences?

And: Social media creator revenue overtakes trad media; The nicest swamp on the internet; Curated guide to 80+ music startups

Jun 12 •

✘ Recalibrating our digital system

And: The beautiful crushing act of expression; AI, Heidegger and Evangelion; Fan-Industrial Complex; Reclaiming culture in cultural policy; Timbaland's…

Jun 6 •

May 2025

✘ Multimodal hyperdrive: from the vision of a release, to releasing a vision

And: Artificial emotional intelligence; a listening bar in Milan; the new director of the Venice Music Biennale; an acoustic playground in Shanghai…

May 29 •

✘ Read and listen

Rave wellbeing report; Mutual funds; Culture and media in Romania; AI-focused AEO taking over SEO; The age of the fractured soul

May 22 •

✘ How to deal with YouTube

And: Licensing AI music; Developing taste; Just for a second; OpenAI will know more about you; UK venues in more trouble

May 15 •

✘ Societal value, artist empowerment, inclusion, equity - Remixing our industry

And: Clubbing x Science; Hallucination as imagination in LLMs; Tencent's superfan clues; Viral songs aren't good; Create acquires Monstercat

May 8 •

✘ The changing face of distro

And: YouTube's virtual creators report; Udio x Audible Magic to create fingerprinted output; Robot dexterity still seems hard; What's winning global…

May 1 •

April 2025

✘ The musical body, listen closely

And: Quiet time; get recommended more through chatbots; Connection is the whole point; The humans behind the streams; AI is evolving

Apr 17 •

✘ Can music even be ethical?

And: The slow streaming movement; Is streaming music's final form?; India's DSP market today; 9 steps to building super fans; Are the 80s back?

Apr 10 •

March 2025

✘ From MySpace to Content ID to AI Slop

And: Is Bandcamp the answer?; Why listeners interpret songs differently; Make something heavy; Open models, closed networks; Lo-fi art, human tools

Mar 27 •

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