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04/12/2025

* 2025 - The Year The Music Industry Wrecked Itself *

Sending shockwaves through the creative and streaming communities alike, 2025 saw the unprecedented explosion of AI generated music and art hit the forefront of modern media.

This year Deezer reported that over 50,000 AI-generated tracks were being uploaded every single day. That’s a shocking statistic, and its impact on the music world and media at large is yet to be truly understood.

We’re fast approaching half of all new music releases being made by prompts. And meanwhile, Spotify is collaborating with AI music tools, supposedly to help ‘put artists and songwriters first’. That sounds a bit like something that would funnel money towards AI and away from grassroots musicians, to us at least, but time will tell.

However, it’s not been all doom and gloom, and those working hard to counteract this negative shift have seen significant improvements this year. Music Venue Trust confirmed the government’s decision to ban ticket resales above face value, and their campaigns and events have raised an astonishing amount of funds in favour of supporting grassroots music venues in the UK.

Creatively this has been one of the most interesting and refreshing twelve months in the history of Stereo Stickman. There’s something about the sense of urgency, despair, and excitement, all intertwined, that lets the music from both the humans and their electronic counterparts access some fascinating new realm of contemplation and expression. And this is still just the beginning.

In 2025 we listened to 1651 different artists on Spotify alone, published over 850 reviews, and playlisted over 2000 new releases. You guys reached out in droves via Groover, Fiverr, Ditto, our contact form, our social media inboxes, and we’ve made new connections and strengthened older ones on a massive scale.

So to all of you – the unplugged beauties, the live show legends, the studio masters: THANK YOU.

Thank you for trusting us with your music, thank you for making music, and thank you for raising the bar this year. The creative world needs you, and we wish you the happiest of starts as 2026 swings into view.

https://stereostickman.com/2025-the-year-music-wrecked-its-own-industry/

28/11/2025

On those occasions when we’re gifted the experience of something truly purposeful and moving in art and music, may we seize the opportunity entirely, to speak with truthful enthusiasm, passion, and promise. As such, I can whole-heartedly encourage you to spend some time, and I assure the value of, listening and exploring in full, The Price Of Salt.

A brand new original motion picture soundtrack, from the ever-diverse composer and multi-instrumentalist Javier Rodriguez, The Price Of Salt employs a fiercely versatile collection of soundscapes, from the tribal and ambient, to the evocative, euphoric and deep.

Its meaning is one of compelling realism, struggle, strength, and resilience. The details fascinate, and the music provides the perfect accompaniment to your consideration of it.

This is the story of Lac Rose – The Pink Lake – a rose-tinted body of water in Senegal, renowned for its hypersaline depths, yielding a salt so pure and abundant that its community has thrived beside it for centuries. The people here work hard, but only the men should mine the salt, a long-standing rule – its extraordinary saline content has been linked to complications in pregnancy for women.

However, as needs must in many communities and parts of the world, rules are often broken, and The Price Of Salt takes us through thoughts and scenes of witnessing a woman, seven months pregnant, hard at work – wading through the water, carrying a heavy basket of salt.

https://stereostickman.com/music/javier-rodriguez-the-price-of-salt-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/

14/11/2025

Dust off the decorations, and bid farewell to the overplayed classics – without saying goodbye to their values, or the joyful bounce of their sound.

Austrian producer and songwriter Nathan Hildebrand is far from a stranger to the studio, but this year, the creative has set upon a global mission – to inspire and connect people, to promote the importance of unity, family, and love, with original music underlining the everlasting traditional values of Christmas.

Creating as De Brand, Nathan has compiled three full album volumes under the title of One World One Christmas. His dream is simple, to celebrate the season with original creativity and songwriting, whilst holding true to the timeless values, sounds and sentiments, that ultimately remind us to cherish one another at this time of year.

De Brand - One World One Christmas, Vol. 1 - Out Now 🎧

https://stereostickman.com/music/de-brand-one-world-one-christmas-vol-1/

10/11/2025

The result is a shrinking network of specialist outlets that once served as cultural and educational hubs for musicians. With fewer places for players to try instruments, seek advice, or attend workshops, many fear the closures could have long-term implications for the UK’s grassroots music scene.

07/11/2025

Standing tall on years of commitment to their genuine passion for music and friendship - The Hook and Bridhge Podcast is a long-standing indie talk-show,

07/10/2025

Featuring moments of funk, punk, trip hop, new wave, rock, dance, Latin and even reggae, New Loser resounds as a slick and often lick-driven alternative rock album. We get instrumental gems and smart references, relatable vocals, the likes of Scars presenting warmth and good vibes contrasted by an intriguing subject matter.

Then in stark juxtaposition, Thank You Card For Slaves powers down with a punk-rock intensity and pace that’s akin to the grittier moments found scattered throughout an old-school Tony Hawk game. We move from Sublime to Rage with seamless creativity, and even get a moment of acoustic optimism and world music bounce, for the rather divinely crafted and uplifting Outback Cumbia. All the while, these stories are provocative, fascinating, and naturally beg for you to listen more than once; to start unravelling the details.

Album Out Everywhere October 10th. Find New Loser on Bandcamp, where three tracks from the album are already available for free. All links in the feature below. 🎧

https://stereostickman.com/music/new-loser-new-loser-ep/

06/10/2025

Ain’t no face, just a visor glowin’ in the dark! I’m out here sendin’ signals from the other side. My beats ain’t regular, they hit like acid trips mixed with block vibrations. Bass heavy like trunks

18/08/2025

“Been dead for about three or four years now. You moved to my town and the colour just flooded in.”

Just twenty-one years old and already with the introspection, natural voice and substance to highlight her own ideal fusion of production, songwriting and performance. Lauralie’s music delivers a solo venture that’s rewarding, and a breath of fresh air to escape into.

Lauralie - but...why? - The Brand New EP - Out Now 🎧

https://stereostickman.com/music/lauralie-but-why/

15/08/2025

An evocative ode to a friend whose journey was irreparably scarred by childhood traumas, Rija‘s fusion of fear and other-worldly fragments presents an intoxicating realm of audio cinematic escapism.

It’s the perfect meeting of lightness and dark, the ferocity of the beat and these church-like voices resounding through the spaces in between – a clever and captivating representation of the heaviness of traumatic burden, alongside the brightness of possibility and hope in moving towards inner peace.

Driven by an unwavering love for the unique euphoria of atmospheric, intense techno and psytrance, Belgian producer and artist Daan Schoonvliet has embarked upon an outstanding venture, releasing a brand new track every month, and introducing his prowess and presence in the space with the likes of the impassioned single Rija.

https://stereostickman.com/music/daan-schoonvliet-rija-ecstasy-funky-pills/

10/08/2025

It’s unignorable now, the rise of AI music – the sound of that increasingly human voice, the arbitrary lyrics with poetic threads of beauty, the vagueness and the catchy tunes. Mainstream platforms are supporting and promoting AI Music at large, with no musicians needed – no payments or support expected along the way.

It’s happening – AI is taking over mainstream music, and there’s very little we can do to stop it.

However, art and music are forever subjective, and our connection to them is vital in keeping the value and wonder of their appeal as important parts of our lives.

No matter how many AI songs you force into our ears, the fact will remain, that we connect with songs and singers, musicians and artists, because we feel what they feel.

The machines don’t feel anything. And that’s the end of the conversation.

Sons Of Legion have delivered a gorgeous performance of a huge AI hit this month, and have done so with real vocal nuance and feeling – with real, organic, unplugged musical skill. It’s a song that’s catchy enough to do them justice as a talented live band – and the live band aspect is a huge part of why AI music creation is anti-art and culture, but that’s another conversation. (Keep pushing the AI Bands, no need for grass roots venues, no opportunity for real talented humans to build a following or a career.)

While the song itself still lacks a sense of human experience and story, it’s now been gifted a lush performance, and this video, and their cover of the now infamous AI band Velvet Sundown, speaks volumes on behalf of what music really means to us, and why it’s such a universally loved artform, that we can never afford to lose.

https://stereostickman.com/sons-of-legion-cover-ai-band-velvet-sundown/

03/08/2025

Divine production and purposeful, meaningful songwriting – the rise of Rafael Montecruz has been exponential in recent months, and culminates this summer with an inspiring and catchy new anthem Someday (Reimagined).

Noting over 30 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify alone, with track streams in the hundreds of thousands, Rafael Montecruz is a producer and songwriter with a clear talent for uniting creative soundtracks with catchy hooks and honest, evocative themes. These abilities shine with equal brightness, throughout this latest collaboration with soulful and impassioned singer Abraham Armell.

https://stereostickman.com/music/rafael-montecruz-abraham-armell-someday-reimagined/

01/08/2025

TONIGHT - Live Music in Manchester...

Manchester's The Alicias carve out a refreshingly organic and energised lane, as their brand new EP What In Me Is Dark? intertwines conceptual depth with nostalgic alt-rock passion and power.

Bringing together the talent and passion of Samm Hewitt, Ste Moran, Rob Nixon, Darren Thompson and Saul Padraig Gerrard, The Alicias balance heavy distortion and awakening rhythms with snappy indie vocals and short, poetic lyrical musings.

To coincide with the launch of the EP, catch The Alicias performing live this Friday, 1st August, alongside Black Sonic Revolver and Morris and The Dancers, at Salford’s Eagle Inn.

https://stereostickman.com/music/the-alicias-what-in-me-is-dark/

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