AI Music Revolution

Why I Don't Care If It's AI

Send us Fan Mail Josh says it once, plainly, and spends the episode earning it: he doesn't care whether a song was made with AI. He cares whether it's good and

Routing by Specification in Suno v6

Send us Fan Mail On September 9 every Suno model that existed the day before stopped generating, and three new ones took their place: v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini. The quest

Breaking News Episode: Suno v6 Launch

Send us Fan Mail Suno launched v6 this morning. Three models, six new capabilities, and a licensing deal with Warner, BMG, and Believe. This episode covers what Suno act

Scotch Tape and Picture Frames

Send us Fan Mail A painter I know only paints for himself. He never sells the work, never shows it, keeps it off the internet entirely. When he finishes a piece he loves

Why Your Folder Is Full and Your Catalog Is Empty

Send us Fan Mail Most AI music folders have forty, sixty, a hundred generations in them, and a release page with two or three songs on it. That gap isn't talent. It

The Discipline Behind the Fix

Send us Fan Mail This week's recap: why your Suno library is mostly a graveyard and what fixes it, the workflow that lets a singer-songwriter put their own voice on

Mastering The Room It Walks Into

Send us Fan Mail Every AI music creator eventually asks the same question: does this actually need mastering, or is the export good enough? This week I break mastering

Same Song, Different Clothes

Send us Fan Mail This week's recap: why your Suno tracks start rhyming with each other around track five or six, and the seven repeatable mistakes that burn 400 cre

Not Cheating. Directing.

Send us Fan Mail This week's recap covers two posts that are really one idea. Why the voice telling you AI music "doesn't count" is aimed at the wrong target,

Stop Starting Over

Send us Fan Mail Two things shipped this week, and they're solving the same problem from two different moments in your process: a free guide for rescuing a track th

The View From the Curator's Chair

Send us Fan Mail Josh curates a SubmitHub playlist and gets thirty to forty submissions a week. From the gate, a pattern emerges that says something true about AI music:

When the Suno Generation Isn't the Finish Line

Send us Fan Mail Lots of people treat a Suno generation as the finish line. In this episode, Josh walks through a track he started in Suno and rebuilt almost entirely by

QA: You Asked, I'll Be Straight With You

Send us Fan Mail This week I'm doing something different. I pulled the questions you've been sending me over the last couple of weeks, from email, from comment

Signal and Amplification and What That Means for AI Assisted Music Creators

Send us Fan Mail The Washington Post ran a piece this month on what it called the AI content economy. Joel Waldfogel at the University of Minnesota has been documenting

The Disclosure Discipline for AI Assisted Music

Send us Fan Mail DistroKid quietly added a mandatory AI disclosure question to every upload. Three categories require disclosure: AI-generated lyrics, AI-generated music

The Tools Aren't The Problem

Send us Fan Mail The owner of an AI music education company just cut $5,000 from his own subscription stack without losing a single capability he uses. That's where

Why a 30-Year Electronic Music Veteran Went All-In on AI: Inge Nilsen, Red Lab Conversations

Send us Fan Mail Inge Nilsen got his first DJ mixer at age 12. He organized his first techno party in Oslo in 1991, before electronic music had even splintered into the

The Suno Stack: Why You're Reaching for the Prompt When the Problem is Three Layers Below

Send us Fan Mail Most creators using Suno are stuck in the same loop. The generation comes back wrong. They rewrite the prompt. They generate again. Six rerolls later, f

The Window Is Still Open. But It Won't Be Forever.

Send us Fan Mail Most people watching AI music from the sidelines are waiting for something — for the tools to be perfect, for the legal questions to settle, for some si

I've Been a Passenger My Whole Life. Six Weeks Ago, I Got in the Driver's Seat.

Send us Fan Mail Doug Arrowood spent his career in law enforcement. He did scenic art for Disney and Universal. He builds furniture, he paints, he writes. For his entire