Azkena Rock Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2027, and organisers have marked the occasion with an enormous rock lineup. The festival returns to Mendizabala in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain from 17–19 June 2027, with close…
Author: Radar Team
Bobby “Boris” Pickett. The American singer and comedian recorded “Monster Mash” in 1962 with a group credited as the Crypt-Kickers. The famous voice is not Boris Karloff. Pickett is impersonating him. And the entire song…
There is no correct marketing budget for a song. An artist with £300 should not imitate a label spending £30,000. And an artist with £30,000 should not automatically spend it simply because the money exists.…
That voice belongs to Vincent Price. The legendary horror actor provides the spoken narration and famous laugh near the end of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. And he recorded the performance in just two takes. Even better,…
If you’ve fallen in love with Sienna Spiro’s “Great Expectation”, there is an enormous amount of music waiting for you. The trick is knowing where to look. Spiro’s breakthrough isn’t built around the production style…
DistroKid and Ditto Music have very similar headline propositions. Pay annually. Release unlimited music. Keep 100% of normal streaming royalties. So how do they differ? Pricing DistroKid currently starts at $24.99 per year in the…
LANDR started life primarily as an online mastering platform. Today it also offers full music distribution. That makes DistroKid vs LANDR an interesting comparison because LANDR’s wider ecosystem extends much further into music creation. Pricing…
“Maps” is a love song about missing someone who is constantly somewhere else. Karen O wrote it about Angus Andrew, frontman of Liars, while the pair were dating and spending large amounts of time apart…
“Draw You Out” is about carrying somebody with you after they are gone. For Noah Kahan, that idea comes directly from Haymitch Abernathy and Lenore Dove in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Kahan…
Spotify is massively expanding its audiobook service, taking audiobooks from just 22 markets to more than 180 countries around the world by the end of 2026. The expansion will give more than 750 million people…
