Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
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Substack vs Beehiiv vs Kit (2025): Best Newsletter Platform for Creators
Substack might be the number one newsletter management service for creatives. One major reason for that is the price - you can’t beat free! But, it also has a ton of great features that integrate Podcasts, Live video streaming, and messaging.…
Ultimate Indie Artist's Guide: Tools You Need, Lies You Don't
In this guide, we give our best pick for every tool and service you'll need to launch and optimize your career as a music artist. No lies, no affiliate hustling, only an honest breakdown of what we think are the best options and why.…
Web3 Music Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
NFTs: Digital Ownership or Digital Illusion? What Is an NFT? NFT stands for non-fungible token. At its core, it's a digital certificate of ownership that lives on a blockchain - a decentralized, public database maintained by computers around the world.…
Digital Real Estate: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
Digital Real Estate - B2B When we talk about digital real estate, we’re not talking about directly monetizing music. Instead, it’s about leveraging the value that music creates.…
Selling Music Royalties: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
Advances: Monetizing the Monetization There’s monetizing your music, and then there’s monetizing the money your music earns. In recent years, fintech platforms have introduced a new model of music financing: catalog advances.…
Monetizing Music Through Licensing: Ultimate Guide to Monetization
Licensing How your music earns money from TV, games, covers, AI, and more Music licensing is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood forms of monetization in the industry.…
Selling Music Direct: Ultimate Guide to Monetization
Direct Sales Selling music today is a charity. Music fans are donating to support your career, not because they need your music, but because they want to see you continue making it. Here's why. Vinyl records served a purpose and solved a problem.…
YouTube Monetization: Ultimate Guide
YouTube Monetization YouTube has always provided artists with expansive opportunities for monetization. In its early days, creators could integrate direct ads from their partners, having YouTube manage the delivery of impressions and track views.…
SoundCloud Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
SoundCloud has quietly built one of the most artist-friendly monetization systems in the music industry, especially for independent creators.…
How to Go 100% Independent as an Artist — Own Your Website, Links, and Revenue
Let's talk about becoming completely independent as an artist. No music distribution, no Spotify, maybe even no YouTube. Total digital control.…
No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets
Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and …
The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements o…
The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip
Still settling into the new place but wanted to throw on my suit and be cute for my bf 😘❤️
Still settling into the new place but wanted to throw on my suit and be cute for my bf 😘❤️
The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can
The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can
Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, …
Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience
Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by …
Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Ad Budgeting: Why Artists Quit Too Soon
Let me start by saying this isn’t a sales pitch. I’m not trying to convince you to pay for an advertising service or to advertise at all. This is information I’m sharing because, for some strange reason, I wake up thinking about this stuff.…
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough