A good road-trip song has a particular job. It needs to sound good loud, survive repeated plays and somehow make the landscape outside the window feel more cinematic than it did five minutes earlier. The…
An EPK – electronic press kit – gives journalists, promoters, playlist curators and industry contacts everything they need to understand your project quickly. Amuse’s recently refreshed independent-promotion guide specifically recommends maintaining a clean, usable EPK…
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has become one of the biggest songs in Billboard Hot 100 history — and it may not be finished yet. The country star’s breakout hit has now spent an extraordinary 18…
The yips is the name for what happens when a player who has made a throw a thousand times suddenly cannot. inaekkum built a song on that, likening the moment pressure separates mind from body…
Apple Music is preparing to make it much easier for listeners to identify music and other content created using artificial intelligence. Apple has confirmed that AI transparency information submitted by music providers will become visible…
YouTube Premium is getting more expensive again, with Google rolling out price increases across several countries in Europe and other parts of the world. The latest YouTube Premium price increase follows a price hike in…
If you’ve transferred photos from an iPhone to a Windows computer, uploaded an image to a website or tried to share a photo with somebody, you may have come across an HEIC file. HEIC is…
You know the feeling. A voice cracks. A choir arrives. The drums finally enter. A guitar climbs into a solo. A quiet song suddenly becomes enormous. Then the hairs on your arms stand up. Musical…
Festivals can put an independent artist in front of hundreds or thousands of new listeners. But waiting for a festival booker to discover you is not much of a strategy. Many festivals actively accept applications…
AYNA wrote ‘Palmera y Playa’ as her first song in Barcelona. She started out as an R&B singer-songwriter and built an audience posting covers to the YouTube channel Tebi y Ayna, where more than 4,000…
