Alongside Marcotte, Jake Hiersteiner and Mike Ryan have been promoted to Director roles, alongside three new hires. Source
The K-pop superstars appear to be taking a group bathroom break in the promo images.
Clarkson has been a double nominee in the two talk show categories for all seven seasons of her eponymous show.
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The singer, who experienced audio issues, was among the special guests at the final show.
Industry, regulate thyself
Music fans can bid on experiences with Billy Corgan and Smashing Pumpkins, Poi Dog Pondering, The Beach Boys' Al Jardine and the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball.
Michael-Anthony "Mykee" Leones Espino was last seen July 12 in Miami, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The Canadian rock band's 11th studio effort is due out on Oct. 30.
Nichols is known for his work as a pianist, session musician and musical director who has worked with artists including Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
The singer has invited famous guests, from Marcello Hernández to Chappell Roan, to share their love life secrets in a confessional on stage.
Adam Friedland will gladly admit that he doesn’t quite have the résumé of your typical sports commentator. Or, as he puts it, “I have absolutely no qualifications whatsoever.” But as fans of the host of The Adam Friedland Show know, the comedian is a longtime sports fan, and well-versed in the...
Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage
This is what the “Talk to Spotify” chatbox (left) looks like on the homepage. | Image: Spotify Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot.
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The Justice Department has officially published its proposed Live Nation settlement for comment, and NIVA is urging the public to speak out about how the promoter and its Ticketmaster subsidiary “have made for a terrible live experience for them.” The DOJ-Live Nation agreement was just recently...
“They’d be trying to find a sound, and you’d randomly hear a drum break that was on a Beastie Boys song,” producer Tyran Donaldson says
The Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office claimed it made five felony-level drug arrests in a tut-tutting statement after Phish’s three-day run at the Ruoff Music Center
HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
Grammy-nominated artists Tate McRae and Sombr, along with actors Tyriq Withers and Malachi Barton, will be honored at Variety’s 2026 Power of Young Hollywood presented by Disney+, on Aug. 5 in Los Angeles.
The FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show keeps getting bigger. Variety has exclusively learned that the event will now also include members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, who will jointly perform a tribute to Venezuela in the wake of its recent...
It was an electric night in the Mile High City as Rolling Stone and Sonesta International Hotels hosted the second stop of the 2026 Musicians on Musicians live tour at the Sonesta Denver Downtown.
CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'
Listen closely: In community halls, youth clubs, and local studios across the U.K., the future of music is taking shape. These are the spaces where young creators find their voice, hone their craft, and build the foundation for a life of creativity.
Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to discover music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
LANDR is moving its Fair Trade AI program into a new phase, introducing an upfront payment program and an expanded revenue model that directly compensates independent artists for AI training use. The initiative now includes more than 30,000 artists.
Sony Music Publishing will support and administer Alta Publishing worldwide. Source
Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble
The UK Government has launched a plan to support the country’s music industry. Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music was unveiled on Monday (July 13) at the UK Music Summer Party, where Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy addressed the industry. It arrives with a GBP £15 million (USD $20.1 million) injection...
We spoke to Milo Pacheco, general manager and head of marketing at S-Curve Records, about how the label has approached developing Avery Cochrane and marketing its first release with the artist.
'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'
Spotify has always been built around your taste. Now, we’re making it easier to shape what you hear, understand what’s playing, and explore your listening—just by asking. Eligible Premium users will see new ways to talk to Spotify across Home and the Now Playing view on mobile.
Pophouse Entertainment, the investment firm co-founded by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, has announced a partnership with legendary British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, acquiring a stake in the publishing and master music rights, and the name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights.
Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
Pophouse Entertainment has entered into a partnership with influential British heavy metal band Iron Maiden Source
It’s fair to say that the critical response to Michael Jackson biopic ‘Michael’ was… mixed. But the bums-on-seats response from fans in cinemas has surpassed all expectations.
There are arguments afoot in South Korea this week due to a proposed amendment to the country’s Music Industry Promotion Act by the ruling party.
Heritage Live was a well-established series of music festivals in the UK held on historical country estates, with this year’s lineups including Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, Lionel Richie, Scissor Sisters, The Streets and Richard Ashcroft.
‘Get Blue’ is a campaign run by Water·org to expand access to safe water around the world. Now it’s getting an additional splash of support from Amazon Music.
We reported last month on plans for a TikTok ‘House of Confessions’ livestream on 2 July to celebrate Madonna’s new album. Now we know how many fans tuned in.
We’ve heard plenty of chat in recent weeks about how paid promo on TikTok and Instagram is Just What You Have To Do To Cut Through when it comes to marketing artists.
Human did 10% of the job, AI did 90%
Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves
The 61,026 recordings would carry a theoretical maximum statutory damage of $9 billion, up from around $84 million under the original 560-work complaint. Source
Our coverage of social-media bans for under-13s – and the impact it might have for the music industry – continues with strong hints that the European Commission may soon announce its own plans along those lines.
The suit alleges Baker is a part-owner of ticket reseller Andro Capital, which has allegedly sold tickets through StubHub since 2008. Source
The following op-ed comes from David Israelite, President & CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) Source
Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
Warner says the union brought the lawsuit "in an improper attempt to place a judicial thumb on the negotiation scales." Source
Rancho sued the band in 2025 over what it called unauthorized performances, and Fuerza Regida countersued, alleging the label withheld royalties. Source
Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit
Nevin will lead Merlin's engagement with independent trade associations and strategic partners worldwide. Source
Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit
Boffins confirm: taking away teens' phone makes them act like humans again
The song comes off the British singer’s recent debut LP, Visitor
Global non-profit organisation Change The Beat has announced a broadened support programme for women and gender-expansive artists.
Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored
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Taylor was among the A-list guests that the rap legend brought out during his three anniversary concerts.
StubHub’s CEO is also the managing partner of a ticket broker that has made millions on the platform. To consumers, that revelation spells fraud. After reports on Friday that StubHub CEO Eric Baker has an ownership stake in ticket broker Andro Capital—which has made millions of dollars listing...
The trade association representing music streamers issued a response to the recorded music industry’s announcement of a new AI labeling program. Trade organization Digital Media Association (DIMA), which represents music streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon, Qobuz, Feed.fm,...
Warner Music Group (WMG) is officially looking to toss the breach of contract lawsuit filed against it by the AFM, maintaining, among other things, that the agreement at the case’s center “does not cover AI licenses.” WMG recently shed light on its dismissal arguments when requesting a related...
Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed
After years of back-and-forth litigation, a federal judge has officially ruled on dueling summary judgment motions – and dismissed one complaint altogether – in the ugly Epidemic Sound v. Meta showdown.
The track featured on the White Stripes’ debut album
PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not the other way around
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company
The icon responded to her new album opening at Number One on the Billboard 200
https://shorturl.at/F1xh8 I don’t want the Ellisons and Bari Weiss in charge of CNN, I don’t want Zaslav to get three-quarters of a billion in payment, but that does not mean this merger should be stopped.
Daughter Amy Helm claims “disturbing circumstances” led to her ouster from Levon Helm Studios after her stepmother, Sandra, backed a leadership change
Meta pulls its controversial Instagram AI image tool, which automatically opted in photos from all public accounts, just days after its launch. Following intense backlash over privacy concerns, Meta has already pulled the plug on its new Instagram AI image feature, less than a week after launching...
TikTok and iHeartRadio set a new viewing record for the biggest TikTok Live on July 2, with over 2.16 million unique viewers tuning in for Madonna. Madonna’s iHeartRadio and TikTok Live received over 5.75 million likes and 139,000 comments, setting a record for the biggest TikTok Live artist event...
BMG acquires the remaining interests in the landmark songwriting works of the publishing catalogs of Hal David, John Lee Hooker, and ARC Music. BMG has announced its acquisition of the remaining interests in the songwriting works of the legendary publishing catalogs of Hal David, John Lee Hooker,...
CISAC President and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus gave a detailed speech about creators’ relationship with AI at the UN’s AI for Good Summit in Geneva, while questioning the approach of some licensing dealmakers.
Tye Blue, director and co-creator of the Tony-nominated “Titaníque,” has joined the creative team of “The Pyramid: An Unauthorized ‘Dance Moms’ Musical”, a new parody written by longtime “Dance Moms” fans James Stryska, Isabel Grace, Erica Molfetto and Molly Russo.
Fans waited over three hours for the finale of Jay-Z’s three-night stand at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. Now, the rapper has addressed the delay. On Sunday, fans gathered at Yankee Stadium for the third and final show in Jay-Z’s three-night stand in his hometown.
Major League Soccer is smartly capitalizing on FIFA World Cup excitement to launch a post-Cup ad campaign, the largest of its kind in MLS’ 33-year history. Amazon Music is directing the soundtrack with a clever refresh of A Tribe Called Quest classic.
Rapper taps YSL Records artists Tezzus, 1300saint, Iyrus, Yume, Biggs, Unky, and Diamond* for the run
She’s a rainbow. Allison Russell might strike you as an alluring riot of colors even if she wasn’t already fond of that signature image, whether she’s naming her band the Rainbow Coalition or releasing the song “Rainbows” as the first track from her new record, “In the Hour of Chaos.” In this, her...
After launching a GoFundMe Finch will miss the upcoming North American leg of L7’s Last Hurrah Tour after undergoing multiple surgeries
As it awaits the appointment of a new prime minister, the UK’s government has announced ‘Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music’.
The Copyright Royalty Judges have initiated a public comment period for the proposed Phonorecords V settlement, due August 10, 2026, extending existing regulations in a new freeze.
During our recent Artist Ally event, British-Asian singer/songwriter Saloni won our Artist Ally Emerging Artist award, having seen impressive growth over the two years of her career so far.
The primary objective of fair use is not to confer a private benefit on those who copy the works of others, but to promote the progress of science and useful arts.1Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S.
Two weeks later, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has officially made the proposed Phonorecords V “Subpart B” settlement available for comment, and the opposing parties now have until August 10th to weigh in.
Cisac president and ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus has given his latest – and most detailed – speech about AI and creators, at the United Nations’ AI for Good Summit in Geneva.
The debates about AI and musicians rumble on in parliaments around the world – including Ireland this week. Tomorrow (14 July) a motion filed by politician Aengus Ó Snodaigh will be debated in the country’s Dáil (assembly).
Meta unveiled its new image-generating AI tool, Muse Image, last week – complete with the ability to “reference” other people’s public Instagram accounts in prompts by @-mentioning them.
On Friday we reported on the announcement by a group of music-industry bodies of a new system for labelling wholly AI-generated music as well as ‘AI-assisted’ music.
“We’re going to go until like 5 a.m., so don’t be scared,” said Jay-Z not long after he started the third and final show of his Yankee Stadium residency on Sunday night, the concluding chapter to a weekend that paid homage to the 25th and 30th anniversaries of his seminal albums “The Blueprint” and...
Jay-Z promised a celebration of the anniversaries of two of his most iconic albums, and fans turned out for him at Yankee Stadium in record numbers. Jay-Z is celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint plus the 30th anniversary of his debut, Reasonable Doubt, and he’s pulled out all the stops...
Sam Smith and Normani asked a federal judge to toss out a copyright lawsuit that alleges their 2019 hit “Dancing With a Stranger” copies an earlier track with a similar name.
The Super Bowl took the concept of a halftime show to extreme heights. Now, FIFA is adopting the concept for a jam-packed, star-studded 11-minute halftime show in New York.
An band’s music was stolen, pitch-shifted, and re-uploaded under a fake name with AI-generated artwork, snatching up over 90% of their Spotify royalties.
Jay-Z’s third and most hotly anticipated concert at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night was plagued by a nearly four-hour delay due to fans rushing the venue’s gates, with Jay finally taking the stage four hours after the concert’s listed start time (and around three hours after the previous two...
Michael beats the odds, becoming the first biopic in history to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales at the global box office: $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, according to stats confirmed over the weekend.
Today you’re selling streams, not physical product, and they’re doing a piss-poor job of it. There are two issues in today’s music business: attention and friction.
Lorde performing at the 2026 Governors Ball. | Photo: Siegfried Anthony/Billboard via Getty Images Lorde was performing at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses.
Madonna’s “Confessions II,” her first new album in seven years, found an appreciative audience awaiting her return. The album bowed with 134,000 equivalent album units, more than enough to push her past the still highly successful Olivia Rodrigo record to land on top of the Billboard 200 album...
Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Björk records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly prolific.
“Michael” has surpassed $1 billion in global ticket sales, becoming the first biopic to achieve the coveted box office milestone. The crowd-pleasing film about Michael Jackson has generated $629.8 million overseas and $371.8 million domestically, bringing its global tally to $1.001 billion.
Jay-Z was almost entirely truthful to the source material for his 25th anniversary Yankee Stadium show on Saturday to celebrate “The Blueprint,” setting guests artists to high wattage but low frequency as he trotted out Eminem, Pharrell Williams and Slick Rick for a curtailed 90-minute set.
More mint green synths, please. | Image: Nopia After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal are almost ready to bring it to market.
If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. These days it's called FL Studio, and Constantin Koehncke, is the man responsible for shepherding the pioneering digital audio workstation (DAW) through the modern age.
Across multiple countries and generations, music – and especially music videos – is the “ultimate driving force of nostalgia,” outranking film, television, gaming, and more, according to a new study of media-consumption attitudes.
The seemingly mundane deliberations over future mechanical royalty rates in the US are starting to feel like a Verdi opera — with colorful industry titan Irving Azoff and his Global Music Rights (GMR) playing an unexpected cameo role.
Tune in July 11th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
Spotify is giving listeners control to fine-tune what gets surfaced for them in Release Radar - one of its most popular weekly playlists. The new options allow you to narrow the playlist to a specific genre, focus on artists that are new to you, and more.
Hyperpop may be taking on a new form. Artists like Slayyyter, Kim Petras, and Tiffany Day are finding success by embracing electropop and the data suggests a new era is underway.
New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute — In litigation originally filed in 2023 alleging the AI developer infringed copyright in news publishers’ works when it trained its Large Language Models, the group of newspapers this week asked the court to impose...
Discovery has always been a core part of the Spotify experience. Whether you’re diving into curated editorial playlists like Artists To Watch or using personalization features like DJ, there’s always something new to explore.
Broad Support from IFPI, RIAA, A2IM, WIN, IMPALA, The Grammys,SAG-AFTRA & Human Artistry Campaign Track-Level Labels to Provide Transparency for Fans AcrossDigital Music Services and Partners NOTE: Suggested Icons for “AI-Generated” and “AI-Assisted” Labels WASHINGTON / NEW YORK / LONDON (July 10,...
Gender inequity in creative industries is often treated as a series of one-off incidents. Individual acts of bias, isolated pay gaps, or a singular unsafe workspace. This fragmented view is, itself, part of the problem. Source
Gigs by Gallagher brothers, Coldplay, Lana Del Rey and Beyonce gives £11bn boost to the economy Big name artists including Oasis with their highly anticipated reunion tour, Coldplay and Beyoncé helped to attract a record number of fans to travel to watch live music last year, helped by a surge in...
Javascript, like most modern programming languages, allows you to use regular expressions to parse values out of formatted strings. Here, for example, is a fairly nice regexp template to get the interesting stuff out of an Apache web-log line. /^(?.+?) - - \[(?..)\/(?...)\/(?....):(?.+?) -0400\]...
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Gopher can’t play the piano for you, but it can bury it in the mix. | Image: Image Line Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions.
AI is a black swan event for music, intertwining the futures of the creator economy and the music industry. The number of gen AI music monthly active users (MAUs) nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, adding nearly nine times as many users as the global base of musicians over the same period. Source
The formula for success on social platforms changes regularly, much to the frustration of emerging creators and marketers alike. This is a natural consequence of content saturation.
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Version 0.7.0 of libdiscid has been released. libdiscid is a C library that allows applications to easily calculate MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs or CD TOC details. It also can extract MCN and ISRC information.
Goal-hunting strikers, ball-stopping defenders, and…Shakira? That’s right: With the world’s biggest football tournament well underway, we’re reminded that the stars lighting up the pitch this summer include some of the most talented players on the planet, along with one particular hitmaker from...