Subject: Why new platforms can no longer access Spotify's artist data ft. Oskar Eichler on my latest Podcast
Why new platforms can no longer access Spotify's artist data ft. Oskar Eichler on my latest Podcast
August 11th, 2026 at 10:03 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's episode, reliable music data is getting harder to access, and Oskar Eichler explains why the artists and companies that know how to interpret it now have a serious advantage. As CEO of Songstats, Oskar has helped build a ...
Meet Anukari, the 3D Physics Synthesizer ft. Evan Mezeske on my latest Podcast
August 4th, 2026 at 10:03 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's episode, Indie plugin developers who want to launch a genuinely new synthesis tool will recognize their own blind spots in Evan Mezeske's story. Evan left Google after 11 years building large-scale fraud systems to creat ...
We talk Soothe 3 with Oeksound's Hannes Andersson on my latest Podcast
July 28th, 2026 at 10:05 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's episode, you'll hear how audio plugin developers who assume machine learning is the right tool find the process used by Hannes Andersson and the team at Oeksound genuinely surprising. Hannes is CEO of Oeksound, the creat ...
Voice Memo Proves Nothing in a Copyright Dispute ft. Nadim Rahman on my latest Podcast
July 21st, 2026 at 10:04 am PDTHi Friend, Song copyright protection for musicians who record ideas with a voice memo at 3am proves nothing in a dispute. That original moment completely unverifiable. On this week's podcast episode, I speak with Nadim Rahman about Songproof, a d ...
I'm solo with the latest music production and business news on my latest Podcast
July 14th, 2026 at 10:10 am PDTHi Friend, Music industry professionals still betting on major labels to develop artists should know the system has structurally exited that business. On this week's podcast episode, I break down the data showing UMG and WMG now redirect spending ...
Jeff Graves talks LUFS mastering on my latest Podcast
July 9th, 2026 at 8:03 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's podcast episode, mastering engineer Jeff Graves talks about what happens when independent musicians upload masters that are so hot that they lose transient detail the moment streaming platforms apply loudness normalizatio ...
Hit the charts without a label or manager ft. Darlene Koldenhoven on my latest Podcast
June 30th, 2026 at 10:30 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's podcast episode, session vocalist Darlene Koldenhoven tells us how her music hit #4 on the Billboard classical crossover chart with no manager or agent. The common assumption that a major-label infrastructure is required ...
Why Chasing Algorithms Is Killing Your Music Career ft. Keith Jopling on my latest Podcast
June 23rd, 2026 at 12:05 pm PDTHi Friend, On this week's podcast episode, I speak with Keith Jopling about what separates artists who last from those who burn out chasing the wrong metrics. Keith spent 25 years inside the business, including time at Spotify, before interviewing ...
Dr. Bill Evans and the Virtual Audio Workstation on my latest Podcast
June 16th, 2026 at 9:45 am PDTHi Friend, On this week's podcast episode, I speak with Dr. Bill Evans, audio scientist, producer, educator, and inventor of the Performance Restoration methodology. Bill believes that drum recording has always involved a painful tradeoff, but it ...
How female producers regain control with Xylo Aria on my latest Podcast
June 9th, 2026 at 10:49 am PDTHi Friend, Female artists who hire producers risk losing creative control before a single song is released. On this week's podcast episode, Xylo Aria, founder of Music Production for Women (MPW), tells us how she learned this the hard way, by pay ...