Opinion

“It wasn’t about monetisation… It really was this free play environment where you could find really cool new things and people were experimenting.” In a new podcast with producer-DJ Kenny Beats, Rick Rubin praises SoundCloud and its direct-to-listener model, saying “what’s missing today is what SoundCloud used to be.” Rubin makes the comments on the […]

“We don’t want to see technology replace human creativity,” says Harvey Mason Jr. Recent changes to the Grammy Awards’ guidelines has opened the door for AI-created music, and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. is here to set the record straight for what exactly is – and isn’t – eligible for a nomination. Per the […]

Emily Lazar, Pops Roberts, Annie Rew Shaw and Lizzy Ellis discuss the issues highlighted by the recent Fix The Mix report and how change can be made. “I’m not going to stop until it’s done,” says Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer Emily Lazar. “You want more women? Hire them. It’s not hard, and it’s not rocket […]

The Grammy-nominated artist believes crypto will soon become “the norm.” Tycho first heard about crypto back in the Silk Road days, calling the underground marketplace “the coolest thing in the world” at the time. Now, decidedly legit, he’s launching his own “Tycho Open Source Community” using Polygon NFTs. Tycho says he bought his first hardware wallet in 2011, […]

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that celebrities have been slow to adopt crypto, even when mass commercialization is around the corner.   I’ve always wondered what would’ve happened had Taylor Swift’s first re-recorded album, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” been released as a non-fungible token (NFT).   If you’re unfamiliar, in 2019, preeminent pop-country musician Taylor […]