Ari's Take

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Ari's TakeIndustryDo Festivals Need To Book More Women? Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Abbey Carbonneau, founder of Book More Women, a nonprofit…

11.11

Ari's TakeIndustryArtist Manager on Music Marketing, Artist Branding and Gen AI Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Charlie Stent, Founder and CEO of Stent Music Group, to…

11.04

Ari's TakeIndustryHow This Indie Publishing Company Got Over 100 #1 Hits Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Chris Farren, Grammy-nominated songwriter and founder of…

10.28

Ari's TakeIndustryBest Music Distribution Companies in 2026 – Full Comparison Chart This is the most comprehensive and accurate digital distribution review comparison for your music on the web. By far. I checked. Who is the best digital distributor for your music?

10.25

Ari's TakeIndustryHow the Major Labels Use AI Fans To Market Music Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Joe Lim, founder and CEO of Floodify, a marketing technology…

10.21

Ari's TakeIndustryIs Mogul Music Royalty Accounting and Auditing Platform Worth It? (My Full Review) Let me start this off by saying, I take pride in knowing how to properly register music everywhere. I literally have a chapter in my book on just this.

10.19

Ari's TakeIndustryHow To Build An Independent Artist Career From The Ground Up Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Toni Nelson, artist manager, business manager, and…

10.14

Ari's TakeIndustryHow Deezer is Approaching AI Music And Payments Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Alexis Lanternier, the CEO of global music streaming…

10.08

Ari's TakeIndustryHow This Classical Piano/Cello Duo Built a Sustainable Career For Their Family Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Patrick Laird, cellist and co-founder of the classical cover…

09.30

Ari's TakeIndustryHow He Got a Million Monthly Listeners and a Sold Out Tour Independently Listen on your favorite podcast platform: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Acast This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Nashville-based singer-songwriter Jared Benjamin.

08.07

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.