Category: Features
Long-form essays and reporting on music and the people who make it.
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How to Copyright Your Music Before You Release It
Notes from a weekend on the floor, mud and all.
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How to Register With a PRO and Collect Every Royalty You’re Owed
Thirty seconds of video, four decades after release, and a sudden second life.
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Master Rights vs Publishing Rights, Explained for Independent Artists
The songwriter talks about the record that took five albums to arrive.
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The Quiet Revival of the Analog Listening Room
How a generation raised on streaming is rediscovering the ritual of hearing a record end to end.
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The Quiet Revival of the Analog Listening Room
How a generation raised on streaming is rediscovering the ritual of hearing a record end to end.
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Inside the Last Vinyl Pressing Plant in the Valley
Forty-year-old machines, a six-month backlog, and the strange second life of a dying format.
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Inside the Last Vinyl Pressing Plant in the Valley
Forty-year-old machines, a six-month backlog, and the strange second life of a dying format.
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What We Lose When We Lose the Liner Notes
A small essay on credits, gratitude, and the people streaming forgot.
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What We Lose When We Lose the Liner Notes
A small essay on credits, gratitude, and the people streaming forgot.
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How Musicians Actually Get Paid From Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube in 2026
A conversation about microphones, patience, and knowing when to stop.