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The tightening grip on music’s independence bzzz.us/independence @musicben_eth

The 10 most pioneering electronic albums of the 1970s bzzz.us/1970s-electron… @tgphelan1 @FarOutMag

The needle is dropping on a new vinyl era in India bzzz.us/vinyl-culture-… @frontline_india

Artists in the US can now sell their music on @Tidal! Upload an album, set a price, and sell directly to your fans. Listeners can download the highest quality files to their device or play within the Tidal app. No subscription required. 💰🎶📲

Sonopress EcoRecords Employ Near Field Communication Technology #vinylrecord #sonopress #makingvinyl @SonopressGmbH @Bertelsmann_com hughsnews.ca/sonopress-ecor…

How we made @streetfightaus colour in colour design 🎶 #vinylrecords #vinylpressing #vinylcommunity #vinyl #splattervinyl #vinyladdict #vinylpressing #satisfyingvideo #satisfying

A new vinyl record pressing plant has opened in Clane, Co Kildare, as vinyl sales in Ireland continue to rise jrnl.ie/6675114

fair play to @BloodRecs because this is one of the most beautiful vinyl pressings I’ve ever seen in my entire life

The @water_and_music 2025 guide to music tech's new power players bzzz.us/music-tech-own… The takeaway: Private equity firms and major labels are locked in a battle for control over independent music infrastructure.

Most useful department. Klippr. Klippr enables electronic music artists to create shareable track release videos from Traxsource or Beatport links in just 30 seconds. Ideal for Insta etc bzzz.us/klippr

Victrola's new turntable with Auracast and aptX might be the most future-proof deck on the planet bzzz.us/victrola-deck @techradar

Forget Spotify – I’m going all-in on Bandcamp for music in 2025, here’s why you should too bzzz.us/forget-spotify @techradar

H/T to Darren Hemmings @mr_trick

Expose from Benn Jordan. Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn) bzzz.us/detect-ia-music out of 5,560 top generated songs and staff picks scraped from Udio, only 11 were not being monetized by posing as a human artist on a digital streaming platform.

Anti-algorithm, anti-perfection – the rise of a music counter-culture bzzz.us/counter-culture @Mark_Mulligan "...there is a thriving underground that both looks and feels different.  Its home is SoundCloud."

Revolutionizing Vinyl—Sonopress Leads the Charge with EcoRecords bzzz.us/sonopress-ecor… @vrmagroup

Self-releasing in 2024. A guide designed for anyone releasing their own music or running a small record label. bzzz.us/self-release @Auntie_Flo

What is the future of the DAW? @holmesprice @DJmag Emerging technology has left the DAW at a crossroads. Declan McGlynn asks: will the DAW adapt or die? bzzz.us/future-daw

Problems are opportunities and the music industry has plenty. So, I asked 35,245 people “what’s the biggest problem to solve in music?”. Here are the most common answers: (Plus my thoughts below)

Music's Three Paths Forward: Unpicking Keith Jopling's vision for the music industry's future. Darren Hemmings @mr_trick unpicks Jopling's recent paper “Music’s Three Futures” bzzz.us/3-paths-forward