Theo Brandt
Theo Brandt writes step-by-step tutorials for AI music tools — prompting, stem workflows, and release prep — from a bedroom studio that started with a cracked DAW and a $60 mic.
AI and Music Rights Won't Be Settled in Court — They'll Be Settled in Infrastructure
The fight over AI and music rights will not be settled by a landmark verdict. It will be settled by whoever builds the registries, the metadata, and the payment rails that decide who gets paid when a…
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The "Buy Catalogs, Win the Market" Rule of Music Publishing — Where It Breaks Down
The advice you hear at every conference panel and in every investor deck goes like this: if you want to grow in an emerging market, buy the catalog.
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AI Video Generation for Suno Tracks: Can You Build a Repeatable Workflow, or Are You Stuck Rendering One Pretty Shot at a Time?
You finished the song at 1 a.m. A two-minute Suno cut in A minor, 92 BPM, a detuned Rhodes under a half-time trap kick, exported clean at 48kHz. The hard part was supposed to be over.
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AI Fraud Prevention for Small Businesses: The Voice on the Phone Is Not Proof
It is 4:40 on a Friday. Your accounts payable person picks up, and it is the owner — same cadence, same slightly clipped way he says her name, same background hum of a car.
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The 40% Problem: A Platform Review of Work-in-Progress Sharing for Artists Who Are Done Begging the Algorithm
There's a number that gets quoted in artist Discords until it loses its edges, and it's worth slowing down on.
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AI Voice Generation Is Coming for Audio Ads — But "Set It and Forget It" Is the Wrong Read
First Snap, then Spotify. Within the same stretch of earnings-season optimism, two platforms that sell attention by the second started pitching the same idea to advertisers: describe your product…
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Physics-Toy vs. Patch-Cable: Two Virtual Synthesizer Approaches for People Who Hate Synth Menus
Last Tuesday I had a bass idea — a detuned, slightly seasick sub around 55 Hz, the kind that wobbles a quarter-tone flat and back like it's deciding whether to commit.
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Reading Spotify Expansion Like a Map: What Office Openings Tell You That Press Releases Don't
A platform announces a new office in a country it was, not so long ago, publicly at odds with. There were takedown demands, a regulator's letter, a few months when the catalog felt politically…
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The Privacy Policy Wall Between You and the Sample: What Consent Actually Does Before You Hear a Note
You followed a link to an industry report — something about international music markets in 2026 — and the report did not load. A privacy policy banner loaded instead.
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