“Fade Into You” sounds like one of the most romantic songs ever recorded. It probably isn’t. The song is better understood as being about loving somebody who doesn’t fully connect with you. The narrator wants…
“Vienna” is essentially Billy Joel telling young people: Slow down. You don’t have to achieve everything immediately. Your life isn’t going to end when your twenties do. The song has become unexpectedly popular with younger…
You distribute a song. Spotify pays your distributor. The money arrives. It is tempting to assume that means every royalty generated by the song is being collected. It doesn’t. A normal music distributor primarily collects…
If someone uses your music in a YouTube video, you may be able to get paid for it — even if they uploaded the video to their own channel. The main way artists and rights…
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from 2–4 October 2026 with another enormous free lineup. Despite its name, the festival hasn’t been strictly bluegrass for a very long time. The 2026…
“Fast Car” isn’t really about a car. It’s about escape. The narrator dreams of leaving poverty behind with somebody she loves. The fast car represents the possibility of another life. They leave. For a while,…
Yamaha has revealed the B200A, a new compact soundbar designed to bring Dolby Atmos audio to smaller TVs, gaming setups and rooms where a large home cinema system simply doesn’t make sense. The Yamaha B200A…
One of DistroKid’s biggest selling points is speed. Its marketing says tracks can reach services such as Spotify in around two to three days. But artists shouldn’t interpret that as meaning they should upload their…
“Zombie” was written after two children were killed in the 1993 Warrington bombing in England. Three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry died after bombs planted by the IRA exploded in Warrington town centre. Dolores…
AI makes the word “ownership” surprisingly complicated. You might type the prompt. The platform generates the recording. You download it. Who owns the song? There are really several different questions hidden inside that one question.…
