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,…
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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…
Post-punk is the easiest answer. It is no longer the complete answer. Fontaines D.C. began as a Dublin guitar band rooted heavily in: post-punk punk garage rock and spoken-word intensity. Then every album made the…
Your ISRC is one of the most important pieces of metadata attached to a released recording. If you’re moving away from DistroKid, organising licensing or simply building better catalogue records, you may need it. What…
Most independent artists do not have forty free hours a week to build a music career. That means the normal independent-artist schedule is not: Wake up. Write music. Promote music. Play show. Repeat. It is…
