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Beat Breakdown Mia Johnson
We have access to almost every song we could ever want to hear. Somehow, we keep hearing the same ones. There has never been more music available to us. Ever. Think about what that means. You can pull a phone out of your pocket and listen to a reggae record from Kingston released in 1978. Then jump to a brand-new producer from Berlin. Then a jazz record from 1959. Then some kid making drum & bass in his bedroom in […]
A plain-English guide to music royalties for independent artists who would rather make music than earn a degree in music publishing. Congratulations. You finished your song. You uploaded it through a distributor. It's on Spotify. It's on Apple Music. It's on YouTube Music. Somebody used it in a video. Maybe it even played on internet radio. Money is being generated. Excellent. So... Where the hell is it? Welcome to music royalties. This is the part of the music business where […]
You can record an album in your bedroom, distribute it around the world and promote it from your phone. Twenty-five years ago, that would've sounded like a revolution. Today, it's Tuesday. So why does breaking through still feel almost impossible? There has probably never been a better time in history to be an independent musician. There has also probably never been a more frustrating time to be one. Both things can be true. An artist today can make a professional-sounding […]
The music industry spent years arguing about whether AI belonged. Meanwhile, musicians started using it. For the last few years, we've been having the wrong argument about AI music. Is it real music? Is somebody who uses AI a real artist? Does pressing a button make you a producer? Will AI replace musicians? Everybody picked a side, everybody got angry, and somewhere in the middle of all that yelling, something important happened. People started making music. A lot of it. […]
Suno is changing the rules on downloading your music. For casual users, it may barely matter. For producers who actually use Suno as part of a working music-production setup, it’s a different story. Suno users got some news this week that probably had quite a few people opening their music libraries and thinking, Maybe I should download all of this now. Beginning September 3, Suno is putting limits on the number of songs users can download from the platform. The […]
