Music is all around us, but are any of us really listening?

The one-price-fits-all age of streaming has become instrumental in the shaping of our collective perception of the value of music.

Introduction: Social/Streaming Compactor “How should I put it?  It's like the trash compactor scene in the first Star Wars film. The...

Introduction:  Mixed Every Friday for the past 6 or more years, I cobble together the week’s new independent releases into my New...

The individual voices of millions of artists are lost to the deafening din of en masse upload.

Rejection is so much a part of grassroots music-making, paying for the privilege is now entirely normalized on the independent music scene. 

Consider the tracks that fall short of Spotify’s new royalty model, the number of artists that will be financially disenfranchised is huge,

Introduction: My Music. My Terms. In our brave new digital world, content has been rendered all but worthless, and the evolution of...