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RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:30pm · Payusnomind

Selling Music Direct: Ultimate Guide to Monetization

Direct Sales Selling music today is a charity. Music fans are donating to support your career, not because they need your music, but because they want to see you continue making it. Here's why. Vinyl records served a purpose and solved a problem.…

RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:20pm · Payusnomind

YouTube Monetization: Ultimate Guide

YouTube Monetization YouTube has always provided artists with expansive opportunities for monetization. In its early days, creators could integrate direct ads from their partners, having YouTube manage the delivery of impressions and track views.…

RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:17pm · Payusnomind

SoundCloud Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization

SoundCloud has quietly built one of the most artist-friendly monetization systems in the music industry, especially for independent creators.…

RSS Aug 15, 2025 6:08pm · Payusnomind

How to Go 100% Independent as an Artist — Own Your Website, Links, and Revenue

Let's talk about becoming completely independent as an artist. No music distribution, no Spotify, maybe even no YouTube. Total digital control.…

Bluesky Aug 11, 2025 2:48pm · pitchfork.com

No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆

Bluesky Aug 10, 2025 10:27pm · pitchfork.com

The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and …

The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge

Bluesky Aug 10, 2025 10:20pm · pitchfork.com

The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements o…

The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip

Bluesky Aug 8, 2025 3:33pm · hornyhorsey.bsky.social

Still settling into the new place but wanted to throw on my suit and be cute for my bf 😘❤️

Bluesky Aug 7, 2025 4:13pm · pitchfork.com

The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can

Bluesky Aug 7, 2025 1:31pm · pitchfork.com

Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, …

Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience

Bluesky Aug 7, 2025 4:30am · sterlewine.bsky.social

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by …

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

RSS Aug 7, 2025 12:28am · Payusnomind

Ad Budgeting: Why Artists Quit Too Soon

Let me start by saying this isn’t a sales pitch. I’m not trying to convince you to pay for an advertising service or to advertise at all. This is information I’m sharing because, for some strange reason, I wake up thinking about this stuff.…

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 8:09pm · pitchfork.com

Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 3:40pm · pitchfork.com

Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 2:58pm · pitchfork.com

Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 2:34pm · pitchfork.com

It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow fores…

It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 2:23pm · pitchfork.com

Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 2:03pm · pitchfork.com

xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaS…

xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon

Bluesky Aug 6, 2025 1:46pm · pitchfork.com

A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s

Bluesky Aug 5, 2025 4:21pm · pitchfork.com

“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the …

“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul Our track review