Music does not move randomly. Styles rise, fade, and return in cycles that repeat across decades. What often feels like disruption is usually recurrence recognized too late. A&R has always...
The Feeling of Being Invisible My name is Quade MacFadyen, and I’m the lead singer of my band, Pity the Pretty. Any musician like me understands the feeling of pouring...
A Crisis the Industry Can’t Ignore Every day, more than 100,000 songs are uploaded to streaming platforms, according to the IFPI Global Music Report. What was once a promise of...
There’s nothing quite like it—you press play on a song you’ve never heard before, and within seconds it feels like it was written for you. Your heart races, the world...
There’s nothing like the rush of discovering new music. You press play, and suddenly a song you’ve never heard before feels like it was written for you. Your heart races,...
The Industry’s Growing Dependence on Numbers For much of modern music history, discovery was built on instinct. A sharp A&R could walk into a dingy club, hear a set, and...
