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  • 🔵 Announcing: Every Spoil Is A Style
    October 14, 2026
    A new companion website/newsletter to Network Notes
  • 🔵 Everything is vibe coded now
    October 6, 2026
    How AI is turbo-charging creativity… but greatly affecting control of digital products
  • 🔵 Universal Music vs Distrokid: beware the hidden agenda
    September 28, 2026
    There’s more to this than the major would have you believe…
  • 🔵 Social’s value is plummeting and everyone’s panicking
    September 22, 2026
    A reason to be scared? Not really – and here’s why…
  • 🔵 The great tech selloff has begun. What does this mean for music?
    September 14, 2026
    A.I.’s impact is starting to be felt across SaaS businesses…
  • 🔵 The EU’s new packaging laws are another nail in the coffin for small/DIY artists
    August 20, 2026
    As if things weren’t bad already. Now this…
  • 🔵 Introducing soundtrackthepage.com
    August 6, 2026
    A little pet project I thought you might all enjoy…
  • 🔵 We have a "music industry commentary" problem
    July 17, 2026
    Amplifying bad wisdom is not helping anyone, sorry…
  • 🔵 Lessons to learn from Metallica's irresistable charm offensive
    July 2, 2026
    The subtle, savvy marketing genius that we can all take a few pointers from
  • 🔵 Three articles you need to make time to read – and why
    June 24, 2026
    Three pieces that perfectly triangulate where we find ourselves in 2026
  • 🔵 Why it is getting harder and harder to hire young people into the music industry
    June 4, 2026
    Breaking down the issues preventing young people from getting a start
  • 🔵 RIP Nina: a shame, but sadly not a shock
    May 29, 2026
    Nina's demise is a sharp reminder of the commercials around digital services
  • 🔵 The music industry's complex relationship with the charts
    May 15, 2026
    The business loves them, but do any fans care about charts in 2026?
  • 🔵 Music, AI and the decimation of memory
    May 1, 2026
    A more personal take on an under-discussed aspect of AI-gen music.
  • 🔵 My article for The Quietus
    April 16, 2026
    A follow-up on Chaotic Good, and some overdue music and book recommendations
  • 🔵 Music's dirty secrets pt. 2: the bot farms driving fake fan engagement
    April 2, 2026
    Fan burner accounts – now operating at scale
  • 🔵 Primary Wave/Kobalt. Concord/BMG. Which will be the next big consolidation moment?
    March 18, 2026
    The bigger companies are merging or selling – but is that a bad thing?
  • 🔵 Thoughts on the Ninja Tune sale to Concord
    March 13, 2026
    The questions we should be asking as an industry now
  • 🔵 "When everyone is super, no one will be"
    March 11, 2026
    The rush to layer AI onto everything is underway… and it's exhausting
  • 🔵 Piracy is in rude health in 2026 – and it is all powered by DSPs
    March 3, 2026
    If you thought the Anna's Archive leak was bad…
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