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Spotify Faces a Massive “Scrape & Rip” Claim
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Best Compressor VST for Vocals: Clean Leveling vs Character (Beginner Settings Included)
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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…
Jagas: Humanist French Rock With Poetry, Fire, and Open Borders
Some bands crank the volume to fill a room. Jagas plays to…
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…
Predictive Listening: How Behavioral Analytics Reveal Whether a Song Will Perform
For decades, artists relied on taste, instinct, and hope to guess whether…
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…
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…
Sébastien Bacci Drops “Before the Break”
Epic Cinematic Tension, Right on the Fault Line Sébastien Bacci returns with…
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…
