Grammy winner MixedByAli launches ‘EngineEars Direct’ music distribution platformService is powered by EMPIRE's white label distribution platform, Supply Chain
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AI Detection and Fan-Sourced Feedback: Is Coda Music Streaming’s Savior?Coda Music is a new streaming app offering a human-first platform, ensuring users can enjoy genuine music without AI interference.
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Is a Song Just a “Data Object?” (Hint: No)An OpEd by Ian Temple of Soundfly about the way we interact with songs as code-based entries in a data library, and what a "song" really could be?
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Milk & Honey expands in UK, adding Bigfoot Music Management and clientsAs a result of the pact, Jeremy Ford, Adam Beyer’s longtime manager, becomes Senior Vice President of Electronic for Milk & Honey globally
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Wyoming's Timber Canyon Studios Opens with Solid State Logic ORIGIN ConsoleAccording to news on Tuesday, "Veteran engineer, mixer, producer and musician Jim Roberts and his wife and business partner, Marie, have launched their new private music production facility, Timber Canyon Studios, in the Laramie Mountains of southeastern Wyoming. The studio’s control room is centred around a Solid State Logic ORIGIN 32-channel analogue mixing console and additionally features U Series DAW controllers, Fusion and THE BUS+ analogue processing units, as well as SSL 500 Series modules."

"The couple, who have known each other since high school, lived and worked in New York for 46 years before relocating their studio to Colorado in 2012. Several years ago, inspired in part by the famed Caribou Ranch in Colorado, they began planning a destination studio that could similarly attract major artists to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The 2,100-square-foot recording studio, designed by renowned acoustician Sam Berkow, incorporates windows throughout the spacious tracking space and control room that offer expansive views of the mountains and herds of pronghorn that roam the 35-acre property."

ORIGIN: pushing the frontier of hybrid workflow"Jim Roberts, whose credits include work with Kansas, Steve Walsh, John Entwistle and Leslie West, among others, jumped at the chance to replace his SSL Matrix with the new ORIGIN console."

“I work in the hybrid world, but I come from an analogue world, and it felt very much like an SSL 4000. It was the right time, right price point, right feature set and right kind of routing, with an eye towards the hybrid workflow that I enjoy now.”

At Timber Canyon, he continues, “I wanted to mix analogue and do the recall in Pro Tools, and I wanted to have a tracking studio.” Having worked on various SSL analogue desks over the years, he says, “I still think there's tremendous value when you're tracking to be able to put your hands on everything at once, including the headphone mixes and the EQ — and ORIGIN has the EQ flavour you want on a board - SSL’s ‘242’ black knob design.”

A host of tools from Solid State LogicRoberts keeps all his SSL audio tools close at hand. “The ORIGIN’s centre section is configurable, so I chose to put the UF8 8-fader DAW controller in the centre section, directly above the analogue stereo group faders. That’s brilliant, because you're right in the sweet spot and you can control both legs of the journey, analogue and digital. And I've got the UF1 DAW controller on a rolling cart, right where I would once have had the tape machine auto locator, off to my right hand. With the integrated UF8 and UF1 directly on hand, I really don’t feel the need for a fully automated console. Then I have THE BUS+ and the Fusion in the left sidecar of the console with a 500 series ‘lunch box’ with two 611DYN modules.”

Choosing an SSL console for its sound quality is a given, but beyond the sonics, Roberts says, “Taking away all those physical switches that you had on the older SSL consoles, all those points of failure, and using logic and a digital matrix to control the analog routing is brilliant and is also infinite in terms of how you can group things and bus things. You can change up your workflow. The number of possible permutations far exceeds anything that I currently do, but it’s very reassuring knowing the console will allow me to take my workflow in any direction I like.”

He also appreciates SSL’s thoughtfulness in maintaining a vintage feel and retaining SSL’s console design legacy with the ORIGIN, while also enabling it to integrate seamlessly into today’s hybrid workflow. “The Unity gain button on each channel, on both sets of faders, makes it easier to break out stems from Pro Tools. A quick button push and everything's at 0 dB, and you can do that across 64 faders if you want to. To me, that shows that they're paying attention to modern workflows,” he says.

Realising the ultimate vision with no boundariesThe past three years, building the studio, a home and accommodation for two or three visitors, has been hard work. “But this was the ultimate vision, where we had no physical boundaries,” he says, noting that his previous studios were retrofits into existing spaces. He and his wife conferred with several architects and acousticians. “Sam sent his proposal, and we looked at each other and said, ‘Let's make this investment.’ Because, A, we want to get it right and, B, it's going to bring an air of legitimacy to the space.”

Laramie is well located for anyone travelling to the region, Roberts notes, with Denver Airport just a two-hour drive away or a short hop from Laramie’s regional airport. “We're just a few miles from the University of Wyoming and its music department, which was another reason why we picked this location. It's a big music town, with lots of live venues. There's plenty of music going on nearby, let alone regionally or nationally.”

Meanwhile, following the facility’s soft open in September, Roberts and a group of friends are now producing a third full-length record of the band they put together during the COVID pandemic. “That was just a little passion project. We're not going to tour or gig. I also have a second personal project with some friends of mine from around the country. We record cover tunes, and I license them. We put the songs out just for fun; it’s music therapy, which we probably all need!”The post Wyoming's Timber Canyon Studios Opens with Solid State Logic ORIGIN Console first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

Yes, “Great Things” Really Do “Start in Little Rooms.”A simple OpEd reflection on Andre 3000's impromptu statement, shared Sunday night in Outkast's Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction acceptance speech.
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Everything You Need to Know About Playlist Pitching in 2025Let's help you understand the ins and outs of getting placed on streaming playlists in 2025.
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GRAMMY Nominations 2025: Song of the YearThe 2025 GRAMMY nominations are here and we're going to help you to untangle it all right up until the big event, continuing with the Song of the Year category.

Take a listen to the nominated songs below--who do you think will win?

See the full list of nominees in every category here.

"Abracadabra"Lady Gaga, Henry Walter & Andrew Watt, songwriters (Lady Gaga)

"Anxiety"Jaylah Hickmon, songwriter (Doechii)

"APT."Amy Allen, Christopher Brody Brown, Rogét Chahayed, Omer Fedi, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Chae Young Park, Theron Thomas & Henry Walter, songwriters (ROSÉ, Bruno Mars)

"DtMF"Marco Daniel Borrero, Scott Dittrich, Benjamin Falik, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Hugo René Sención Sanabria, Tyler Thomas Spry & Roberto José Rosado Torres, songwriters (Bad Bunny)

"Golden [From KPop Demon Hunters]"EJAE & Mark Sonnenblick, songwriters (HUNTR/X:EJAE, Audrey Nuna, REI AMI)

"luther"Jack Antonoff, Roshwita Larisha Bacha, Matthew Bernard, Scott Bridgeway, Sam Dew, Ink, Kendrick Lamar, Solána Rowe, Mark Anthony Spears & Kamasi Washington, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar With SZA)

"Manchild"Amy Allen, Jack Antonoff & Sabrina Carpenter, songwriters (Sabrina Carpenter)

"WILDFLOWER"Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish)

Lady Gaga photo by Sebas Montesinos, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.The post GRAMMY Nominations 2025: Song of the Year first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

HYBE’s Weverse superfan platform is growing – and going big in ChinaHYBE's superfan platform Weverse is making significant inroads into China through strategic partnerships with two of the market's digital giants
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Bandsintown’s 2025 High Notes Is Coming — Artists, Prep Your Profile!Bandsintown's exclusive trending High Notes recap is back for 2025. It's an annual profile of live music both personal and global. Stay tuned!
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Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Radio Royalties, Spotify Payola Accusations, MoreEpisode 275 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart's podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now.
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Could Ace Frehley Have Been a Stand-Up Comedian? Comic Don Jamieson States His CaseThat Metal Show co-host and stand-up comedian Don Jamieson espouses on the opinion that the Kiss guitarist could have cut it as a comedian in this excerpt from Greg Prato's book, "Talk to Me: Conversations With Ace Frehley."

Rico Nasty Gets Gnarly at the FondaEighty percent of the best new rappers of the last decade have been female. After years and years of misogyny in the music industry that, lets be clear, does still exist, it does at least seem to have gotten through to some of the people at the top of the industry tree that, hey, if there's more than one female rapper in the charts at the same time, the world won't implode.

So, beefs aside, we have Cardi and Nicki, Megan and Doja. Bubbling under, we have a lot more strong, talented women ready to make the break into arena-level shows. Saweetie, Ice Spice, Doechii, Coi Leray, Kash Doll... the list goes on and on. And let's get this right: If Rico Nasty isn't headlining the Kia Forum in two years MAXIMUM, then something's wrong with the world.

She's got it all. Rico Nasty's rhymes are incisive, intelligent and, in the very best possible way, cutting. Her delivery is rapid-fire and, most importantly, very much her own. There's a little snarl in there, that bit of nasty, which is partially why she's so attractive to the contemporary punk crowd. That, and she performs on stage with a live guitarist as well as her DJ.

She's a consummate show-woman. She holds the crowd at the Fonda, Hollywood in the palm of her hand which, given the length of her nails, is a precarious but elevated position to be in.

And then there are her songs which are either gloriously memorable or rabble-rousingly anthemic. Oftentimes, they're both.

Weighing it at about 40 songs, her setlist at the Fonda was lengthy but didn't outstay its welcome by one microsecond.

"WHO WANT IT" and "EAT ME!" gets the crowd yelling along early, and there are some awesome choices of covers (Doechii's "Swamp B*tches" and Doja Cat's "Tia Tamera"). The set flies by, one killer tune after the other. Teezo Touchdown and Molly Santana join Ms. Nasty at various points, and Paramore's Hayley Williams gets up to help her with "Smack a B*tch," increasing the scream volume.

Towards the end, we get set highlight "TEETHSUCKER" and "Son of a Gun," but in truth the set was packed with highlights. Rico Nasty is the real deal--make her huge!

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From Suno getting sued by Koda to Live Nation’s $8.5bn in Q3… it’s MBW’s weekly round-upThe biggest headlines from the past few days...
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FINNEAS Created Apple TV’s New Mnemonic — Artists Take Note…Tapped by Apple, Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Finneas has created Apple TV's new sonic logo, or mnemonic. Artists, there could be opportunity here...
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