The Quiet Takeover: How Private Equity Just Froze the Major Labels Out of Independent Music Distribution
The biggest music industry story of 2026 isn't an album, a lawsuit, or a streaming platform. It's a $2 billion acquisition that most artists never noticed. With CVC Capital Partners taking control of DistroKid, the largest independent music distributor in the world, the future of music distribution may have changed permanently.
The Collaborators, Not the Replacements: How AI Is Making Human Musicians Better
The songwriter who has lived through something — loss, love, fear, joy, the kind of specific experience that has no generic version — brings something to the creative process that no generative model has access to. That lived truth is what turns a technically accomplished piece of music into something that makes a stranger's eyes water in their car on a Tuesday morning.