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James Mishra
Sep 18
How TikTok and UnitedMasters are about to change the balance of power in the music biz.
James Mishra
Aug 22
Merck Mercuriadis has a long reputation for being one of the music industry’s most successful fixers, but he’s about to become the most powerful mogul …
James Mishra
Jun 26
After the 1992 Los Angeles riots, many Americans wanted to blame gangsta rap. This spun into police union boycotts inspired by Ice-T's heavy metal song…
James Mishra
Jun 6
The startup tonebase offers online lessons in classical guitar and piano from Grammy-award winning musicians. 
James Mishra
May 27
Why the podcaster Joe Rogan is worth more than $100 million to Spotify
James Mishra
May 20
After the end of Prohibition and the start of the Great Depression, jukeboxes began to occupy bars and clubs in America. These jukeboxes ended up playi…
James Mishra
May 15
Last week, the researchers at OpenAI released Jukebox, a machine learning model that generates music as raw audio—including vocals—in a variety of genr…
James Mishra
May 6
Joyner Lucas dropped his debut album ADHD a few weeks ago, which—among other things—explores how his life has been affected by ADHD. In his song “ISIS”…
James Mishra
Apr 20
How to negotiate with power and make it big
James Mishra
Apr 10
From $1 billion in sales to bankruptcy five years later.
James Mishra
Apr 3
The music industry has long been home to interesting characters with shady business dealings. Especially during the twentieth century, many of these ch…
James Mishra
Mar 19
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