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🔵 The ever-growing management/label push-pull
That awkward sense of who owns what, and who effects change
🔵 Reappraising our relationship with friction
It used to be a bad word. Now? Maybe not so much.
🔵 How a 1971 letter anticipated the music business of 2026
Revisiting Bill Graham’s Plea for "New Blood" in an era of The Constant Now
🔵 Between a bot and a hard place
Christ, am I sympathising with Sir Lucian Grainge now?!
🔵 Playing with the Sleevenote digital audio player
A better way to enjoy your music?
🔵 Looking ahead to 2026 - some thoughts on how things will evolve
The wider trends I see emerging in the next twelve months.
🔵 Analysing the "We Are Charlie Kirk" situation
A dive into the AI-made song currently sitting at No.1 on 19 Spotify Viral charts worldwide
🔵 "It should surely be about giving people a great, durational experience of music and entertainment"
Part two of our chat with Aaron Skates, founder of Cantilever
Is AI turning music streaming services into comment sections? 💬
The century-long squeeze that led to this moment
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A newsletter about the music industry, technology, marketing, and the intersection of all three, brought to you by the strategic marketing agency Motive Unknown.
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