MUNA Talk With Polyester

MUNA
Jason Tate

MUNA talked with Polyester about their upcoming album:

The way that I see it is probably the way that I see most growth in life, which is: it’s a spiral. So if you look at our first record About U, I think we were existing in this kind of aesthetically punk space. And the sound was like dark pop. And I think that if you look at what we’ve done with Dancing on the Wall, it’s a more elevated, more expanded version of that thing. I think it really speaks to the people that we were when we started this project, but we have more resources, and we have more experience with each other. It’s the album that I think we would be so over the moon that we made if you could have told us when we were 20.

Tosh Peterson Talks Joining Alkaline Trio

Alkaline Trio
Jason Tate

Tosh Peterson, the 24-year-old drummer who has played with Fall Out Boy, Lady Gaga, Troye Sivan, Filter, Kid Laroi, Jxdn, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Nas X, Young Thug, Bazzi, Bad Bunny, Ashton Irwin, Carlie Hanson, Royal and the Serpent, Bryce Vine, Mario Biondi, Nik West, Jonny Goood, Bexley, J-Hope and many more, and posts drumming videos regularly on Instagram, and recently joined Alkaline Trio, sat down with Loyal to the Craft to talk about it.

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Letting Artists Vet Releases Before They Appear on Streaming

Jason Tate

James Hanley:

The streaming platform is piloting a new opt-in feature that lets artists review and approve eligible releases before they go live.

The company says protecting artist identity has become “a top priority for 2026,” noting that “the rise of easy-to-produce AI tracks has made the [misattribution] problem worse” across streaming services.

Spotify’s new Artist Profile Protection feature — now in limited beta — has been designed to combat ongoing issues with misattributed releases, whether from metadata errors, artists sharing the same name, or “bad actors” who are “maliciously” attaching music to artists’ profiles.

This is one of those things that’s almost unbelievable it hasn’t always been the default. And seeing the Cartel fake AI song appear last week is another reminder why.