Swarm Digital Media

03/31/2025

Joe Aboud shares why owning your fanbase is key to long-term success in today’s evolving digital music promotions landscape.

01/28/2025

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians

01/23/2025

Nobody in the music industry is saying it out loud, but perhaps it would be nice to witness TikTok going down in a ball of flames.

01/15/2025

TikTok is a lousy platform for music discovery, and while the music industry may not get better if it's banned, it certainly won't get worse.

12/03/2024

A helpful breakdown of the costs of live music from the National Independent Talent Organization.

11/20/2024

Streamers are making it easier than ever to listen to and distribute music. What they are not and will not be doing is paying artists a living wage.

08/12/2024

J.J. Italiano—who curates Spotify's New Music Friday, Today's Top Hits, and more—takes us behind the scenes of his astronomically desirable job.

08/05/2024

Twelve years ago, the future Spotify exec became the source of a national debate about music ownership. Then she went into the belly of the beast.

08/04/2024

Bring vacation vibes back to your home front with a growing trend: the signature hotel playlist on Spotify

04/17/2024

The album opens with an acoustic guitar that gives way to a steady beat. “There’s a voice inside/That echoes in my mind/Telling me to beware/And that I’m running blind.” Nagging self-doubt drives t…

04/11/2024

JM Stevens is a singer-songwriter and in-demand producer, engineer and session music who operates the EAR (East Austin Recording) studio in Austin, Texas. Stevens, who grew up in West Point, Mississippi has a new album, Nowhere to Land, which is out April 12.

In this episode of Into Music, JM Stevens discusses his early love of Elvis Presley, his first live performance, which occurred at a school talent show, and how sobriety has led him to the most prolific patch in his career.

04/08/2024

West Point, Mississippi-born, Austin, TX-based singer-songwriter JM Stevens is back with his second album, Nowhere to Land. The follow-up to his acclaimed