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What Spotify International Expansion Means for Your Royalties (and Your AI Tracks)
A producer I know shipped an instrumental hip-hop loop pack last year, nothing fancy, a detuned Rhodes over a broken 808 at 84 BPM. His top earning region wasn't Los Angeles or London.
Concert Tour Revenue Isn't Collapsing — It's Splitting in Two
You have heard the obituary by now. Mid-tier acts pulling tours mid-routing, club promoters underwater, a venue circuit that can't make rent between the 800-cap room and the 4,000-cap theater.
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AI Music Re-Recording Could Hand Catalogue Power Back to Artists — Or Just Move the Money Around
Boy George, by most accounts, should hate this. He is the frontman of an act whose biggest songs are decades old, the kind of artist you would expect to treat a machine singing his catalogue as theft…
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The Brexit Impact on the Music Industry Was Never About One Big Wall — It's About Forty Small Ones
The damage was never a wall. A wall you can see, cost, and campaign against. What landed on touring musicians after Brexit is harder to photograph: not one barrier but a few dozen small ones, stacked…
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Can You Run AI Music Generation Locally for a Live DJ Set? Magenta, Stable Audio, and an FLX4 on the Desk
You turn the filter knob on the FLX4, and there's a beat — not a musical one, a dead one — before the audio answers. Three hundred milliseconds, maybe four hundred. In a studio that's nothing.
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Voice Trademark Protection: What the New Filings Actually Buy an Artist
Last week I spent an afternoon trying to clone a voice you'd recognize in two syllables. I won't name the singer, but the source was four minutes of clean a cappella, 48kHz, no reverb tail to confuse…
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Celebrity Philanthropy and the Grassroots Promise: Where the Conventional Wisdom Holds Up and Where It Cracks
There is a sentence that shows up in nearly every celebrity foundation story, usually in the second paragraph, usually unchallenged: the money goes to grassroots organizations.
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