Audio Chronicle
Follow Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Wild Connection’ Cover Back to Twisted Teens
The Substack post is a starting point for comparing two versions and hearing what Twisted Teens do beyond the covered song.
Johnny Marr’s Guitar Auction: Keep the History in the Case
With 80 guitars reportedly headed to auction, there is a practical case for preserving the musical memories and maintenance details that should travel with an instrument.
Streaming Revenue Grew Again, So Read It Like a Signal Chain
Fresh US figures show premium subscriptions growing faster than wholesale revenue overall, giving musicians a reason to audit the path from rights map to royalty statement.
Perennial’s ‘Emma Peel’ Treats Retro Cool Like a Deadline
The New England trio’s latest Modernism preview offers a case study in turning loaded old references into practical creative constraints.
The 7 Best Headphones And Earphones For Flying
Long flights expose every audio weakness: cabin noise, battery life, seatback screens, bulky cases, and bad fit. These seven picks solve different travel problems.
Frost’s New Dean and the Case for Teaching the Whole Session
Matt Serletic’s appointment at Frost is a cue to examine how music schools teach the judgment and collaboration behind a finished recording.
“You have a choice: to create, or not to create.”
— Henri Temianka
Geese and the Exhausting Business of Proving You Like a Band
The band’s reported doubts about its audience open a bigger argument over TikTok promotion and the credentials nobody should need to enjoy a song.
Let the Song Outlast the Apple Ad
The band ear’s reported iPhone Duo placement is a cue to hear what changes when a soundtrack excerpt returns to the full recording.
Muse, Meta and the Work of Keeping an Artist Findable
The band’s reported handle change points to a quiet part of music-making: maintaining the route from a remembered name to the right record.
Give Your Next Headphones a Job Description
Sony’s latest three-tier launch prompts a practical checklist for the pair that has to handle both the commute and the next overdub.
ZERO9 and the Decisions Behind a Simple Plugin Interface
James Harcourt’s nine-plugin range invites producers to listen closely to defaults and consider what happens when a quick setting needs a revision.
Let Pop Be Ridiculous on Television
Sabrina Carpenter’s first Primetime Emmy, for The Muppet Show, is a fine excuse to appreciate the musical craft inside a very silly format.
Yeat’s Missing Verse Makes the Case for Album Change Logs
The reported edit to Slime Language 3 raises a practical listening question: how should an album tell us that its contents have changed?
Audacity 4 Turns a Familiar Editor Into a Migration Project
The free editor’s biggest overhaul in 26 years deserves a careful sandbox, because interface changes become muscle-memory changes at the studio desk.
Rubber Band Gun’s ‘Bloodwork’ Maps a Home-Studio Music Scene
The surprise release offers a practical lesson in how repeat collaborators and one dependable room can build collective momentum.
Arturia Pure SUB Makes Bass Design a Bounded Problem
Arturia's focused 808 and Reese instrument shows how a narrow tool can clear one of a session's most persistent bottlenecks: indecision.
Dreamtonics Instrument X Shrinks the Orchestra’s Storage Habit
Dreamtonics is betting that neural acoustic modeling can loosen orchestral software’s appetite for storage, with expressive control carrying the real burden.
Pop Production Is Hunting for the Empty Space
A new Jack Antonoff interview frames hitmaking as the search for an absence, a useful studio idea if producers resist turning culture into market research.