In addition to its original discovery features, SoundCloud now offers built-in music distribution to major streaming platforms.

On my Q&A Zoom call yesterday with some Ari’s Take Academy students, one of them was lamenting about hiring publicists in the past and being very disappointed with the results. If you’ve ever hired a publicist as an emerging artist, I would imagine you feel the same. 

It’s no secret that AI music-making tools have made their way into the music production zeitgeist. Whether assistive or fully generative, AI is now capable of helping more and more people make music. But are artists actually using it? A study by LANDR suggests that they are.

The use of AI in music production has grown massively in recent years, and it shows no signs of slowing down. But this has also changed the game when it comes to music distribution and streaming.

DistroKid announced the launch of Direct — a new direct-to-fan platform that expands the company’s offerings beyond audio and video distribution.

Whew, I got quite the backlash for my post about normalizing giving points to session musicians.  Seems like an innocent enough thought experiment. My fatal flaw was using Taylor Swift as an example of the wealth disparity in the music...

Does age matter in music? Here are 22 musicians, including Sia, Rachel Platten, Bonnie Raitt, Louie Armstrong, who made it after the age of 30.

Let’s get this out of the way: if you have music on Spotify, Apple Music, or any other digital streaming platform, you are probably missing out on publishing royalties. 

When it comes to music distribution, LANDR stands out as a service designed to deliver music to streaming platforms and fully streamline the modern independent artist’s workflow.

One question we hear songwriters, producers, and artists ask all the time is “why do I need a music publisher if I’m a member of a PRO?”. It’s a fair question.