CloudBounce vs. Landr: Which Mastering Platform Is Better?
Short answer: Probably Landr. But it depends on what you’re looking for.
How to Release a Cover Song on Spotify
For many artists, releasing a cover song might be the right path to take their careers to the next level. By using the notoriety of an existing track and reinterpreting it in their own way, musicians can expand their audience and promote their unique style while paying tribute to artists and bands they love. It’s […]
Chartmetric vs. Spot On Track: Which Is Better?
These tools help artists and labels to understand data. Here’s our take on how to pick between them.
Phosphorescent Rips Love’s Heart Out on “Song for Zula”
Love. It has been the catalyst and impetus of the vast majority of art since some short time after our ancestors covered the walls of Lascaux and Chevaux caves with the earliest forms of artistic expression. Often – too often – musicians opt for the easy path of beating the long-dead ‘my heart is broken […]
The New Pornographers present “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies”
I rely on The New Pornographers for peculiar and beautiful songs, messages I can never decode but somehow understand anyway. “Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies,” from their ninth album, Continue as a Guest, is a mosaic. A. C. Newman’s lyrics give us fragments of activity, fragments of landscape, occasional fragments of commentary (“beautiful, I guess.”) It […]
The Lonely Artist in Michael Simon Armstrong’s “Waterfront”
An artist’s combination of talent, passion, and vision has often been called a gift. There are times, though, when this “gift” is experienced more as a burden, both by the artist and by their loved ones, family, and community. “Art is not only about something. Art is something.” This Susan Sontag quote encapsulates the difference […]
The Moving Stills Find Delight on the “Westside”
Why did the Moving Stills call this song “Westside”? Not just because they’re touring (though, yes: at the time of this typing, the Australian band is wrapping up its “Westside” tour.) Titles are a kind of signpost: they can tell you where to focus in a song. “Westside” points to the geography of “distant love.” […]
What are SEO playlists on Spotify?
There are pros and cons, for sure – my take is that it depends on your music and what you’re looking for.
J Lind’s “Oxford Sweater” & Simple Joy
This is what J Lind writes on his instagram about his newest single: “Oxford Sweater” is about turning off your phone and noticing the world but here are some things I’ve noticed with my phone on, no regrets” What follows is a photo carousel of the quirky, the heartwarming, the mundane—an action figure on a […]
Prince Slams Societal Discord on “Sign O’ The Times”
It’s 1986 and Prince’s career is in full-afterburner mode. “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry,” and “Raspberry Beret” have already cemented his inclusion among the most successful – and talented – popular musicians of the second half of the 20th century. Tepid off of two less-than-seismic releases, The Artist has decided to go rogue, disbanding his […]
