Best Compressor VST for Vocals: Clean Leveling vs Character (Beginner Settings Included)
A vocal compressor isn’t just “make it louder.” It’s the tool that decides whether your singer feels steady and intimate… or jumpy and glued to the speakers. The good news:…
PURe Synth Abyss: when synthwave steps out of the shadows… violin in hand
Some artists make synthwave “the old-school way.” PURe Synth Abyss does something sharper: it understands the 80s DNA, but refuses to wear it like a costume. The result is a…
Carlito Home — “Embrace the Morning” turns jazz-lofi into a sunrise ritual
Some tracks don’t drop—they arrive. Softly. Like daylight sneaking through the blinds while the city is still yawning. That’s exactly the feeling Carlito Home captures on “Embrace the Morning”: a…
Jagas: Humanist French Rock With Poetry, Fire, and Open Borders
Some bands crank the volume to fill a room. Jagas plays to fill the space between people. Hailing from France, Jagas is a humanist rock band that blends poetry, social…
Compression 101: Threshold, Ratio, Attack/Release (and Why Your Mix Pumps)
Compression is not “make it louder.” It’s control—control of peaks, control of sustain, control of consistency, and (when you want it) control of vibe. Used well, compression is invisible. Used…
Predictive Listening: How Behavioral Analytics Reveal Whether a Song Will Perform
For decades, artists relied on taste, instinct, and hope to guess whether a song would “work.” In 2026, that guesswork is over. Thanks to behavioral analytics — skip rates, save…
YouTube Pulls Its Music Data From U.S. Billboard Charts After January 16, 2026 — And It’s Bigger Than a Charts Spat
On January 16, 2026, YouTube makes a decisive move: it stops providing its music data for Billboard’s U.S. chart calculations. From that point forward, YouTube views and plays no longer…
SoundCloud Security Incident
What the 20% Data Exposure Really Means (and What to Do Next) SoundCloud has confirmed a security incident affecting roughly 20% of its user base. The exposed dataset is described…
The Personal Branding Audit: Why Most Artists Don’t Convert and How to Fix It
Most artists don’t fail because their music is bad. They fail because their branding is invisible, inconsistent, or confusing, creating a disconnect between what listeners hear and what they feel…
Sébastien Bacci Drops “Before the Break”
Epic Cinematic Tension, Right on the Fault Line Sébastien Bacci returns with “Before the Break,” a new epic cinematic release that feels engineered for the exact second before everything changes.…
Why Artists Should Think Like Developers: Versioning, Release Notes, and A/B Testing in Modern Music Promotion
The music industry of 2026 increasingly resembles the software world. Songs behave like products. Releases function like updates. Algorithms react like user experience engines. And artists who embrace a developer…
Sebastian McQueen Makes Souls Speak on “Soulful Voices”
Sebastian McQueen keeps pushing his Afro House journey from Ajaccio, shaping grooves built for golden-hour horizons and those late-night “one last track” moments that somehow become an entire chapter. Rooted…