Katherine Henley
The AI Music Labeling System Everyone's Building: What Most People Do vs. What the Evidence Suggests
A catalog manager I know pushed 400 tracks to three streaming services last spring. One instrumental — an AI-assisted ambient bed with a live cellist over the top — came back from one platform tagged…
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Studio Time vs. AI Music Generation: What a Track Actually Costs You in 2024
The number everyone quotes is ten thousand dollars. That's the figure that gets tossed around when someone wants to make the case for AI music: a real studio session runs you five figures, and a…
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AI Coding Agents Write Faster Than You Can Read. So Why Are You Still the Bottleneck?
A pull request landed in my queue last Tuesday at 9:14 a.m. The agent had written it in about ninety seconds: a refactor of a payment-retry path, four files touched, 230 lines changed, a commit…
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Gender in Music: Why the Live Music Industry Keeps Underselling Its Most Reliable Audience
Here is a question you have probably asked yourself standing at the back of your own room at 9pm on a Friday: when six people show up together on one set of tickets, who actually decided they were…
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AI Voice Technology and the Money You Haven't Spent Yet
A product person I know described her company's budgeting app to me like this: "We've basically solved impulse spending.
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Physical Music Packaging Is Doing More Work Than You Think — and the Evidence Is Thinner Than the Sermon
Last spring a friend who runs a 200-capacity post-punk label sent me a 40-second clip: a fan, somewhere in Leeds, peeling the shrink off a clear-with-black-splatter LP, tilting it under a desk lamp…
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