Editorial

Stories from the independent scene

Interviews, scene reports and artist features written by our editors.

Most amateur vocal chains fail in the same five places. Here is how to fix each one without buying anything.

We pulled twelve months of payout statements from nine independent artists. The averages will not surprise you; the variance might.

We caught up with June Fallow to talk about diary-entry songwriting, cheap guitars, and the chorus that became “Paper Crown”.

How a Manchester producer turned two years of 3am field recordings into a debut record.

We caught up with Kaia Drift to talk about warm late-night house, thrifted synths, and the field recordings behind “Blue Hour Loop”.

We ran the same drum bus through six saturation plugins. Two were worth the money.

Source separation quality crossed a threshold this year. The interesting questions are no longer technical.

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