Music Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2027 Canceled

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival will not take place next year, festival organizers announced on Friday. On Friday, August 21, organizers of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival made the difficult announcement that the event will not take place in 2027.

Digital Music News 27m ago
Music Bonnaroo to Take Off 2027 to Recover From Extreme Weather

Organizers for Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival have announced that the festival will be taking a “much-needed” year off in 2027. The annual festival, which takes place in Manchester, TN, has been plagued by severe weather over the past couple of years, leading to its cancelation in 2025 just a day...

Variety 4h ago
Music Apple Quietly Raises Apple Music-Bundled One Family and Premier Pricing

As Apple Music subscriptions increasingly come from bundled offerings, Apple quietly raises the prices of its Apple One Family and Premier bundled tiers. Apple Music just saw a price increase last month, and now, two Apple One bundled plans are receiving price increases worldwide. In the U.S., the...

Digital Music News 15h ago
Music Think Small

Don’t sign with a major label. Unless you make broad-based pop or mainstream hip-hop (country is a world unto itself, with its own rules). That’s all they’re interested in. They’re equivalent to NASA.

Lefsetz Letter 19h ago
Music Ketch Secor-This Week’s Podcast

Mr. Old Crow Medicine Show. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ketch-secor/id1316200737?i=1000784556039 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/9bcdc303-3f23-406f-8b02-a53d831acf3d/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-ketch-secor

Lefsetz Letter 20h ago
Music Diane Warren Adopts West Hollywood’s Runaway Pig: ‘Welcome Wilbur!’

The viral story of a runaway pig in West Hollywood turned out to have a Hollywood ending. This past weekend, a video showed a piglet running through the streets of West Hollywood. Jamaal Harrison, who filmed the video, is seen chasing the pig as he yells, “There’s a pig in West Hollywood!” He later...

Variety 23h ago
Music DATA CENTER BACKLASH SITREP 8/20/26

Data center opposition enters a national political phase as ratepayer costs, transmission lines, moratoriums, polling, and electoral pressure reshape America’s AI infrastructure debate.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 1d ago
Music Music as a cultural infrastructure business

Suno is introducing deliberate friction to pump the brakes on the AI-powered superabundance it helped create. By implementing download caps (per Variety ), the company is putting guardrails around how much music users can output. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago
Music Marketing Weekly Recap: Raye – Campaign Highlights

British singer-songwriter Raye released her second studio album, This Music May Contain Hope, in March 2026. Lead single ‘Where Is My Husband!’ dropped over half a year prior to the album - a move that seemed like a gamble on paper, but ultimately built massive anticipation.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music The piano that taught my cat to play for her supper

The artist, in a moment of quiet contemplation. | Photo by Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge The pianist sits before her instrument. She carefully extends a front paw, pressing gingerly on a key. She presses again, and again.

The Verge 1d ago
Music Ankur Tewari launches new album with dedicated hotline

Since Tuesday, people in Mumbai have chanced upon graffiti in English and Hindi that asks if they’re “still procrastinating?” and then tells them to “stop scrolling” and “call Mr. Faarigh […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music KKR to acquire minority stake in BookMyShow

Global investment firm KKR has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Indian live entertainment and ticketing platform BookMyShow, for an undisclosed sum. The funds will be used […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music Dark Star

1 This was not the best song on the album, but it’s the one that hit the radio first. This was unexpected. We never thought we’d get another Crosby, Stills & Nash album. And here it was. In June 1977. 1977… The late seventies were about hedonism. Not as bad as the eighties, when greed […]

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago
Music Acting With Impunity

And I thought no one was supposed to be above the law. That’s how society works. Cross the line and you might get fined, assuming you’re caught and someone has enough money, power and wherewithal to hold you to account. But what if you act in plain sight? Thumb your nose at the system, believe […]

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago
Music Get Ready For A Big Increase In Your YouTube Views

YouTube is increasingly becoming more and more important to artists, producers, songwriters, and podcasters, as the service is now the most watched platform in the world (yes, even more than Netflix).

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 2d ago
Music Do watermarks spell the end of AI content proliferation?

AI companies are now required to make model outputs detectable as AI-generated under Article 50 of the EU AI Act – or, in other words, watermarked. The major AI companies have all signed the additional voluntary Code of Practice . Source

MIDiA Research Blog 2d ago
Music How to Get the Most Out of Running Mode

The right soundtrack can help you make the most of every mile. But each run calls for something different: a high-energy push through intervals, familiar favorites to stay in your groove, or new music to keep your regular route feeling fresh.

Spotify 3d ago
General farewellm

I was a function of loss, and a solution of the shapes of thoughts. I retraced what you drew me until you could no longer tell the difference between you and me and nothing.

furia log 3d ago
Music Spotify Gets More Personal With Playlist Notes

A great playlist does more than line up songs: it sets a mood, reflects a point of view, tells a story. We keep giving playlist makers more ways to tell that story, from custom cover art and playlist descriptions to tools for customizing transitions between tracks.

Spotify 4d ago