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✘ Music industry 3.0 - what we actually want to build

And: The economic and social impact of independent record labels; billion-dollar battle over online piracy; Let it burn; Architecture for sound; The…

Dec 4 • 

Maarten

 and 

Rufy Ghazi

15

3

2

November 2025

✘ The download is the key. Or, how the AI debate gets more boring with each deal

And: The struggle for independence; Radio resistance; We deserve so much better than AI; Culture as foundational for democracy

Nov 27 • 

Maarten

11

1

2

✘ Streaming services are not Calm & Fluffy

And: Songs are going viral faster than ever; Should we still be using the term 'new media'; Electronic music royalties under the microscope; Has the AI…

Nov 20 • 

Maarten

 and 

Bas Grasmayer

4

1

2

✘ The Web, have we lost it? Can it become semantic? Is music metadata a solution?

And: The algorithm failed music; Fairness in music recommender systems; Salvation for music criticism; alive internet theory; New Taylorism

Nov 13 • 

Maarten

3

2

✘ Capturing Community

And: Sleep Token treasure hunt; Live Nation results driven by stadium tours; Spotify North American subscriber growth problems

Nov 7 • 

Maarten

13

1

5

October 2025

✘ Expanding sounds as a creative and business model

And: Is radio shifting to ad-supported streaming?; Community building takes curiosity; India's evolving sync market; Clipping to Cloning

Oct 30 • 

Maarten

7

1

1

The “Forever” Stakes of Generative AI Ownership

On synthetic data and dead labour

Oct 23 • 

Brodie Conley

12

7

8

✘ Quantum music, or the brain as walkman

And: A £1 idea to save small music venues; Dance music's bitter division over boycotts; DEI in public funding; Detecting AI music shouldn't be opt-out…

Oct 16 • 

Maarten

7

6

3

✘ Creative R&D is a culture

And: Music City Report Bangalore & Kochi; Neural fingerprinting for anti-copyright theft; GEMA vs OpenAI update; Living with the discomfort of learning…

Oct 9 • 

Maarten

7

1

✘ Sustainable business models in the music industry

Addressing the fact that financial innovation lags cultural innovation

Oct 7 • 

Maarten

6

3

2

✘ Creative R&D in music

And: Underrepresentation in EU music ecosystem; AI = theft; Humans as luxury goods; What happens when an AI-artist gets a record deal; AI won't make you…

Oct 2 • 

Maarten

11

8

7

September 2025

✘ Holding the AUX

And: 10 hours through the eyes of an eagle; the deep fake news; tape bows are the instruments we didn’t know we needed; and 1000 old rave flyers

Sep 25 • 

AUX

6

1