Daily Edit | October 30

[On snagging a Child Actor beat for his latest single, “Orchards”] “Child Actor has been a guiding light and force for me and my creative process,” Navy Blue said in a press release. “When he shared the beat, it was titled ‘Orchard,’ just as ‘Low Threshold’ was. The titles of his beats are always spot on and seem to set the stage. This time with the warm glow of a winter sun piercing through the clouds. I visualized an apple orchard melting into a singular vanishing point, and began to write. Thousands of individual trees bearing fruit, connected through soil and roots, with an expansiveness that resembles the infinite source. -Pitchfork

10 / 30 / 2025

Headlines

• After hitting 100m registered users, Bandsintown launches Marketplace to connect 700k artists with distribution, data, and merch tools [MBW]
  

• SoundCloud now enables artists to keep 100% of distribution royalties across streaming platforms [Music Week]
  

• DistroKid artists can now create custom t-shirts, mugs & more with new direct-to-fan platform [Billboard Pro]
  

• Dodgers organist Dieter Ruehle on his witty, spontaneous song picks, and keeping up with the Series’ epic Game 3: ‘The game isn’t scripted – what’s better than live accompaniment?’ [Variety]

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