AI Music Slop isn’t much fun. It sounds feasible but is soulless. The riffs stalk, the lyrics dull and melodies monotonous. It’s seemingly competently produced but with very little intentionality or risks. Like it was made by a professional musician who is fed up with music, needs to bash something out at four o’clock on a Friday so he can go home to a failing marriage. A dystopian future for music not the utopian one the ghoulish AI ceos are promising.  So why do people list

There are many music streaming platforms out there, some controlled by the world’s biggest companies, so why would I want to create a new one? I think they have their shortfalls … As an amateur musician I was looking for artists similar to my fairly unique style i.e. not mainstream but high quality. It was hard. Very hard. The major streaming platforms only promoted mainstream stuff. Even more niche sub-genes were dominated by a couple of industry selected bands. The total la

While building my music streaming app, it was clear to me that I needed to understand the space I was “disrupting”, (or better put “improving” if you don’t like the strangely aggressive silicon valley phase). A key element to understand was “How do bands/artists succeed?”, not being an industry expert myself the best I could do was scour the internet for a broad consensus. Below are some of the less obvious reasons I discovered… Meet people… A lot of us like to think ourselve