→ There’s No Money in New Music. The New Cue Covers It Anyway.

Ted Kessler and Niall run The New Cue, a weekly Substack built almost entirely around music that came out this week — not the stuff everybody already agreed mattered a decade ago.

Kessler says it himself: people still make music in 2026 with no real money or career in it, and treating that work with your full attention is the least anyone can do. For a musician putting something out into the void, that’s the actual value of a newsletter like The New Cue — not the specific bands they name, but the standing refusal to only cover people who’ve already made it. Find the writers who keep that promise.