Photo credits

They show studios, stages, gear and crowds, never an artist we cover: no artist photos, no cover art, no recognisable faces, no legible brand logos and no AI-generated images. Artist and song files use generated covers instead.

Every photo gets the same colour grade so the set reads as one: Resized to 2400 px wide, then per pixel: saturation 38% (toward Rec. 709 luma); split tone with shadows pushed toward warm black (R +2.5%, G +0.8%, B −2%) and highlights toward warm ember (R +4.5%, G +1.2%, B −3.5%); a soft filmic curve (gentle S, blacks lifted to 3%, highlights rolled off at 94%). JPEG quality 86 (mozjpeg).