Short studio bookings are a budget constraint that produces a specific kind of record.
Month: August 2026
Open in a cheap building, build a scene, get priced out or shut down, repeat elsewhere.
The term described a position relative to the mainstream. When the mainstream absorbed it, the position vanished.
Waiving the platform cut for a day showed how much of the problem is distribution of revenue...
Bands need somewhere loud to practise, and that space is disappearing from the cities that need it.
One album is not enough to know anything. Five is more risk than a small label can...
A shop staffer's recommendation was a discovery mechanism with no algorithmic equivalent.
Opening for a larger act can cost a band money and still be the right decision.
Getting records into shops is a separate business from making them, and it takes a cut at...
Four tracks forced bouncing, bouncing forced commitment, and commitment produced records.
