⏳Want to book 10x more shows 2026?

This week, I'm sharing why a 42-minute album with only 2 tracks might be the antidote to our fractured attention spans. Plus, I've got an AI-powered booking tool that stops you from chasing dead inboxes when booking shows, a free app that lets you draw sounds no synth can make, and the latest AI music news.

I pressed play on Steven Wilson's The Overview and realized I'd forgotten how to listen to anything for more than 5 minutes.

Two 21-minute tracks stretched before me like a challenge. No skip button. No shuffle. Just the discipline to sit through 42 minutes of unbroken sound.

The album forced me to abandon my playlist habits and surrender to a structure built for depth, not speed.

Real connection to music requires time, pick 1 album and listen without distractions to rediscover what streaming stole from you.

Now, let’s cut to the chase:

This week in the AI Musicpreneur: ↓

✍🏼 AI MUSIC PROMOTION CORNER:

A step-by-step guide to finding verified talent buyers and booking 10x more shows in 2026 without chasing dead emails.

🛠️ AI MUSIC PRODUCTION CORNER:

A free tool that turns your drawings into sounds no synthesizer on Earth can make.

📰 And the latest news shaking up the music tech world.

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How to find talent buyers & book 10x more shows in 2026

You search Songkick. You check Bandsintown. You visit venue websites one by one.

You build a spreadsheet. You hunt for contact pages.

A month later, you have 50 venues. Half the emails bounce.

The talent buyer you found last year left 6 months ago.

You write a pitch. You hit send. It bounces. You start over.

The concert industry has had an expensive solution for decades:
↳ Pollstar's contact database, tour routing, and venue intel.

It just costs thousands per year, sits behind industry subscriptions, and relies on contact databases that may only be refreshed once a year.

Booking-Agent.io (the creators of PlaylistSupply) built the alternative: real-time verified venue contacts, cross-referenced against live data, not last year's data.

Here is what makes it different. Most databases are static. They export a CSV, you pay, you find out half of it is stale.

Booking-Agent.io pulls from live sources, validates the domain pattern, confirms the contact is still active before you see it.

That’s the difference between a tool and a database.

Here is how it works:

1 - Sign up here:

The Intro plan includes 50 verified contacts, just $24.99 for two weeks.

That's enough to build a real tour.

I got you 25% off. Use code AIMUSICPRENEUR25 at checkout.

2 - Search by similar artist or filter by city and genre.

Type an artist name to see every venue they played. Or filter "Los Angeles" + "Metal" to find every matching venue. Target artists slightly ahead of you, not headliners.

3 - Unlock verified contacts.

Click a venue pin. Click "Get Email." Their AI cross-references LinkedIn data, validates the domain pattern, and confirms the contact is still active.

4 - Build your tour route.

Save venues to a project. Group by region. Track your outreach.

Your pitch needs four things: who you are, social proof, why this venue fits, and links to music and live footage. Follow up in two to three weeks.

I got you 25% off. Use code AIMUSICPRENEUR25 at checkout.

Dead inboxes don't book shows. Start here.

Turn any image into sound for free with RoEx Phosphor. Here’s why producers should care:

You're not tweaking knobs. You're drawing sound.

Vertical position controls pitch. Horizontal position controls time. Brightness controls volume. Whatever you draw on the canvas, Phosphor plays it back as audio, instantly, in real-time.

What you can build:

• A line that rises over four bars = a riser

• Scattered marks = textured noise

• A sine wave that dissolves into fragments = a movement no traditional synth can replicate

You're not choosing presets. You're building shapes.

Color adds a dimension most synths don't have:

• Red draws sawtooth warmth

• Green carves out square wave hollowness

• Blue pulls up soft flute tones

The same shape in different colors sounds like a different instrument.

Four synthesis engines. Pick your sound:

• ISTFT for classic spectral synthesis

• Additive for clean oscillator tones

• Noise Band for textural results

• Blend for mixing tonal and noise in a single pass

This approach used to be gated behind expensive software. 

MetaSynth, which created the bullet-time sound design in The Matrix, cost hundreds and took real learning time. Phosphor costs nothing and works in minutes.

Before you start, one thing to know: Random photos will mostly disappoint you. A sunset produces harsh noise, not beauty. The power is in the drawing tools, not the image import.

Start here:

1. Draw a single rising line

2. Hit play

3. Hear what it does

4. Build from there

Download free at roexaudio.com/phosphor macOS only. No account required.

Open it. Draw one line. Hit play.

Missed last week’s news? I got you. Here are the top 5 AI music news:

WRAP UP

We’re at the end!

"Hold onto your butts." Samuel L. Jackson said this in Jurassic Park before rebooting the entire park system. He knew the risk. He did it anyway.

Sometimes you need to shut everything down to restart properly.

Your music career works the same way.

Always rooting for you,

-Chris (The AI Musicpreneur)

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