Ari's Take

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Ari's Take

Ari's TakeIndustryHow To Build An Independent Artist Career From The Ground Up This week on the New Music Business podcast, Ari sits down with Toni Nelson, artist manager, business manager, and co-founder of 1990 Records.

October 15

Ari's Take

Ari's TakeIndustryHow To Build An Independent Artist Career From The Ground Up This week Ari sits down with Toni Nelson, artist manager, business manager, and co-founder of 1990 Records.

October 14

Ari's TakeIndustryHow Deezer is Approaching AI Music And Payments This week, Ari welcomes Patrick Laird, cellist and half of the acclaimed instrumental pair Brooklyn Duo.

October 8

Ari's TakeIndustryHow This Classical Piano/Cello Duo Built a Sustainable Career For Their Family This week, Ari welcomes Patrick Laird, cellist and half of the acclaimed instrumental pair Brooklyn Duo.

September 30

Ari's TakeIndustryHow He Got a Million Monthly Listeners and a Sold Out Tour Independently This week, Ari is joined by Nashville-based independent artist Jared Benjamin.

August 6

Ari's TakeIndustryArtist Manager on Viral Syncs and the State of Music Marketing This week, Ari is joined by Laurie Lee Boutet of Wednesday Management to discuss the marketing behind The Beaches' breakout success.

July 29

Ari's TakeIndustryAI Music Is An Abomination – It’s Time We Stop Normalizing It The Recording Academy just published a panel discussion from a "Grammys on the Hill" event where CEO Harvey Mason Jr. repeated his favorite talking points regarding generative AI music.

July 27

Ari's TakeIndustryHow To Be a Professional Hit Songwriter This week, Ari is joined by hit songwriter, producer, and publisher Andreas Schuller to unpack how modern hits are made.

July 22

Ari's TakeIndustryHow Major Label A&R Has Evolved and How Hit Songs Are Written This week, Ari is joined by legendary A&R executive Pete Ganbarg to discuss artist development, hit songs, publishing, and AI.

July 15

Ari's TakeIndustryHow a Direct-To-Fan Rollout Secured a Billboard Top 10 This week, Ari is joined by Dee Diaz, VP of Marketing at Reach Records, to break down Lecrae’s Billboard Top 10 album rollout.

July 8

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.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: 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.