Music Inside K-Pop's Turn Toward Electronic Dance Music

KATSEYE's 'Pinky up', BLACKPINK's 'JUMP,' and LE SSERAFIM's 'CELEBRATION' all share something new: hard techno. K-pop's trademark EDM sound is giving way to something grittier — and insiders say it's just getting started

How Music Charts 47m ago
Music Behind The Campaign: James Johnston

Behind The Campaign: James Johnston How going hyper-local created a global community Australia→ South Africa→ Nashville→ UK→ Sweden→ Canada→ Germany James Johnston is a country singer-songwriter from Australia who started putting out his music independently in 2021.

Music Ally 6h ago
Music Italy’s competition watchdog probes Suno over ‘unfair terms’

Suno’s legal headaches expanded beyond the US some time ago, with lawsuits filed by collecting societies in Europe and Scandinavia. Now Italy is getting in on the act – although this isn’t about copyright infringement. Well, not directly. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 7h ago
Music Kakao Entertainment plots K-Pop growth with Atlantic Music Group

K-Pop isn’t exactly struggling to reach global listeners at the moment, through streaming and stadium tours alike. But now South Korean firm Kakao Entertainment has inked a deal with WMG’s Atlantic Music Group to continue the momentum. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 9h ago
Music Audiobooks on Spotify Are Going Global

Today at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest gathering of people who love books, we announced that audiobooks on Spotify are going global. By the end of 2026, listeners in more than 180 markets will be able to find their next great book on Spotify, right alongside the music and podcasts...

Spotify 13h ago
Music O2 signs record deal to keep London venue’s naming rights

Exclusive: 10-year sponsorship extension at a 50% premium on last agreement crowns bonanza year for live venue O2 has struck a record deal thought to be in the region of £200m to retain the naming rights to the London venue the O2 in the largest renewal of its kind in UK history.

The Guardian 15h ago
Music The Last First-Winter K2

Last night we watched “Learning to Fly,” a documentary on ultra-marathoners on Prime. So what you’ve got here is mostly mountain people, the other, who have dedicated themselves to this insane sport which is far from lucrative. And as I’m watching I say to myself, I KNOW THESE PEOPLE!

Lefsetz Letter 20h ago
Music Are AI glasses Meta’s new game changer, or next stumbling block?

Much controversy surrounds the continued spread of Meta’s AI glasses. With cameras that can record entire interactions, an AI virtual assistant to analyse them live, and small speakers to unobtrusively share those findings with the wearer, its uses are potentially both promising and predatory.

MIDiA Research Blog 21h ago
Music 114°

Not really, but that’s what the thermometer read when I got into my car in Hollywood. Car temperature gauges are notoriously inaccurate. For some reason they’re better in the winter, but once it starts to get warm… First and foremost they’re too high when you get into the car.

Lefsetz Letter 21h ago
Music A primeira Spotify Superfans Experience chega a São Paulo no ano que vem

O fandom transforma o ato de ouvir música em comunidade. Molda a descoberta, influencia o que viraliza e faz as pessoas voltarem sempre. É essa a ideia por trás do Spotify Superfans Experience, ou SFX: nossa primeira experiência global ao vivo para fãs, marcada para os dias 23 e 24 de janeiro de...

Spotify 21h ago
Music Fender revamps its website with AI tool and more artist content

Fender has been more than just a maker of instruments for some time now. In the last decade we’ve written about its moves in music education, its Fender Studio music-making app and its Fender Next artist-development program for example. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago
Music The Choosin’ Texas Kerfuffle

No one has heard it, despite the song being number one for 23 weeks, how can this be? Well, “Rolling Stone” posited that it’s hatred of country music: “WHAT SOME FOLKS REALLY MEAN WHEN THEY CLAIM TO HAVE NEVER HEARD ‘CHOOSIN’ TEXAS’ Proclaiming you’re unfamiliar with Ella Langley’s record-setting...

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago
Music The Ari Emanuel Book

“Roll the Calls: A Memoir”: https://bit.ly/4dl125e I read this whole damn book and I still don’t know who Ari Emanuel is. What we’ve got here is a package deal, as in Ari agented his own book. In other words, he hired J.R. Moehringer to write it.

Lefsetz Letter 2d ago
Music Picard 3.0 released

The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.

MetaBrainz Blog 3d ago
Music Our editors: vzell

This is part of a series where we talk to some of the amazing editors that have cracked one million MusicBrainz edits and qualified for super special (lousy) shirt plan.* These users have donated substantial amounts of their time to improve open music data, enriching open-source knowledge and...

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago
Tech Friday’s Endnotes – 10/02/26

AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit — “The Third Circuit rejected an artificial intelligence company’s fair use defense after it trained its AI on a competitor’s product, finding the training constituted copyright infringement — and potentially setting a landmark...

Copyhype 5d ago
Music K-pop as culture: Fandom learnings from BTS and KCON LA

K-pop is known as a genre built around fandom-focused live experiences, whether that’s concerts or fan-run events, and it’s been a busy few months for K-pop fans in the US. In August, I attended CJ ENM’s three-day K-pop convention KCON LA, as well as two dates on BTS’s massive ARIRANG world ...

MIDiA Research Blog 6d ago
Music Holiday Listening Starts Now on Spotify

The calendar may say it’s fall, but on Spotify, the holiday season has begun. This year, we’re getting into the spirit early with Holidays on Spotify, a season-long celebration packed with surprise data drops, new releases, and plenty of festive moments to soundtrack the months ahead.

Spotify 6d ago