"Maybe I should dispel a rumor at this point, which has gone around forever, which is like, it’s not a personal story from mine," singer says of FutureSex/LoveSounds hit
Exclusive: Head of IFPI says allowing AI companies access to online content would be a ‘huge mistake’ and damage Australia’s reputation Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia weakening copyright protections for AI companies would be “ridiculous and dangerous”, the...
Livestream the Cincinnati Bengals taking on the Atlanta Falcons live from Madrid on Nov. 8. Watch Manuel Turizo perform at halftime.
Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged
278 proposals on table, and some fear they might shift power to governments
Both songs are from the New York rock band's latest album, Reality Awaits
The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. defended the rapper’s right to speak out, while the Edge said Sheeran “should not be vilified”.
Drummer Chuck Comeau talks TikTok, Good Things Festival, and why a farewell tour is “not in the cards”
Livestream the comedian host and the indie rock band perform on Nov. 7 — watch live online for free.
NO COMPLAINING The only people who want to hear it are…other complainers. There’s a whole ecosystem of people convinced that the system is stacked against them, who are constantly complaining online how unfair the game is. The truth is they are not good enough and/or unwilling to work hard enough.
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (yes, that is her full name) began her musical education in her youth, tackling the piano, ...
The singer-songwriter chatted about it briefly in a podcast appearance the week of releasing her new holiday album.
“I now have to rest, in order to make a complete recovery,” the singer wrote.
The musician was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in March 2026.
Richard Lloyd, whose fluent and fiery guitar work was a vital element in the influential 1970s-era New York City band Television, died on Saturday at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn., according to the New York Times. The cause of death was bile duct cancer; he was 75.
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Guitarist, who was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in March, died Saturday from cholangiocarcinoma, his family announced
"I now have to rest, in order to make a complete recovery and ensure that I’m as fit as can be before getting back to work," singer writes
A collection of Elvis Presley music rightsholders and the publisher of many of Eminem’s records have filed sprawling new federal lawsuits against the AI music generator Suno, with each party making separate allegations that add to the AI company’s legal challenges.
The singer's legendary voice is at the center of a cutting-edge lawsuit that aims to hold the AI firm legally liable for allowing users to create knockoff vocals.
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job
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In fact, the Safdie brothers themselves seem well aware of the impact that Lopatin's score would have on a viewer, having the music be the very ...
Team given a day's notice faced distressed callers, safeguarding decisions during project that stretched from 2 weeks to 11
Bad drivers behind the wheel or underneath the operating system – neither is ideal
“I’ve had the opportunity of meeting a 13-year-old girl who is battling her second round of cancer,” Boone told the crowd.
All you need to know is his wife Katie didn’t vote, because she was afraid if she registered her address would be made public and… As it is, she and Stephen are already living on a military base, to ensure their safety. And if that doesn’t tell you all you need to know… Isn’t this […]
Olivia Rodrigo’s first holiday single, “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” earned plenty of plaudits upon coming out of the gate late Thursday night — none greater than that offered by Chris Butler, the writer of the Waitresses’ classic 1981 song “Christmas Wrapping,” who said he’d been offered a sneak...
Jisoo, the singer and actor best known as a member of K-pop group Blackpink, has signed with talent agency WME, which will represent her worldwide. The deal comes as Jisoo builds out her solo music career.
Eight years after touring with a combination of audience Q&As and solo music, Nick Cave will return to North America with “Conversations With Nick Cave: An Evening of Talk and Music,” a followup to his 2019 tour of the same name. This followup is set to run for 25 dates in the U.S. and Canada […]
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Song was culled for Right Now album benefitting Doctors Without Borders
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
Tune in Saturday November 7th to Faction Talk, channel 137, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz
Reporting to a founder is different from reporting to a manager. Here are four ways to make this special relationship work.
Macklemore is accusing some of America’s most iconic arenas of shutting his “Free Palestine” tour out. The rapper, who recently had dates in Dublin, Paris and London at the end of October, took to Instagram on Nov.
The rapper performed three sold-out shows in Europe with special guests in support of organizations providing aid to Gaza, but says bringing the tour stateside has been more challenging
A new audience-overlap finding is a useful corrective to the idea that AI search is replacing Google. And it changes how businesses should think about discovery and measurement.
With less room in their budgets, people are turning to a familiar resource they may have overlooked.
“These songs are for people who love Christmas, but also for people who don’t,” Tegan says
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Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
Artist has set Conversations With Nick Cave tour dates for the spring
The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though
Solopreneurs that provide digital services have a world of talent at their disposal. Here is how to leverage it.
New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing
Not long ago, selling out Madison Square Garden meant chart hits and a household name. Now artists like Slayyyter, FKA twigs, and Cleo Sol are filling arenas on the strength of something else. So what does it actually take to be an arena artist today
Concert violinist Annabelle Traves explains how she scored a $10,000-a-month gig tasting ice cream for Snoop Dogg’s company
Co-design platform for quantum error correction melds IBM quantum kit with AMD CPUs and GPUs
That's according to Live Nation's latest quarterly results, published on Thursday (November 5). Source
Ricky Hirsch, founder of Think Jerky, was "overwhelmed" when his brand appeared on screen.
inMusic, the parent company of Akai, Moog, Native Instruments, and more, has decided to embrace the modding community. In an interview with The Verge, inMusic CEO Jack O'Donnell said, "We're going to provide a toolbox to the community, we're going to provide the inner workings of, say, an MPC or...
Upcoming release features “Right Now (Taste The Victory),” “Am I a Sinner,” “When I Say So,” “My Big Secret,” and “She’ll Never Be Me,” the latter co-written with Justin Timberlake in 2001
Who'd'a thunk a giant steel box could make such a flop? Us, that's who - and probably you, too
A popular Bob Dylan Substack interviewed Antonio Spadaro about the encounter
The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source
This coming Monday (November 9), at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, Guy Moot, Chair and CEO of Warner Chappell Music (WCM), will become the first music publisher to receive the award in its 34-year history. Source
Apple is cutting spending allowances for AI tools.
University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk — “Right now, the bots create ‘a disincentive for libraries and other institutions to make parts of their collection available online,’ Weinberg said.
Organization responsible for countering anyone who wishes to scupper the US's ambition for AI supremacy
The best rock bands create their greatest work with their backs against the wall — witness the Rolling Stones — and the legendary British hard-rock powerhouse Motorhead was no exception.
The plans give artists unlimited access to Rotor's tools for making visual assets for release campaigns, including music videos, lyric videos, Spotify Canvas, and Apple Music Album Motion. Source
Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8
Staff memo pushes return to flight into January, overshadowing third-stage and engine announcements
Back in September, Blizzard Entertainment held its fan convention BlizzCon for the first time since 2023, just after Activision Blizzard was acquired by Microsoft in a blockbuster $69 billion transaction, which signaled a renewed investment in gaming by the software giant, from Sept. 12 to the 13.
Splice’s stack just got significantly fuller. Having started as a samples platform, the company is now launching its own digital audio workstation (DAW). The post is from Music Ally.
2026 isn’t done with expensive music-catalogue acquisitions just yet. Influence Media Partners has announced the completion of its $600m-plus deal to buy publishing catalogues, recordings and film/TV publishing assets owned by Anthem Entertainment. The post is from Music Ally.
We promise, we’re not trying to wind up fierce legal foes Musixmatch and LyricFind by grouping them together in news stories. It’s just that they do currently have a habit of making announcements on the same day. The post is from Music Ally.
It’s another busy day for news from the live-music and ticketing sector, starting with a Very Big Number from Live Nation for The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ tour, which has finally wrapped after four years of stadium dates. The post is from Music Ally.
TikTok is keen to encourage more big artists to host livestreams in its app. The latest to take up the challenge was Colombian musician Karol G, with a live performance earlier this week (4 November). The post is from Music Ally.
We’ve seen some unexpected devices used for gaming in our time: developers love getting Doom to run on just about anything with a screen – pregnancy tests included. The post is from Music Ally.
Botched server move left the door open, and DigiCert took months to notice someone had wandered in
DEAG stages more than 6,000 live events a year Source
Planning notice puts renewal at nearly twice the 2023 value, just as Whitehall frets about US tech dependence
With rightsholders urging streaming services to de-recommend, de-monetise and even remove AI-generated music, it’s a ballsy move to announce a deal opening up a new pipeline for it, to say the least. The post is from Music Ally.
Turns out throwing billions at GPUs doesn't automatically mean everyone gets more done
GTA VI arrives on 19 November, and new Official Charts Company data shows that its trailers alone have driven lasting uplifts for the music featured in them. Few games can match that scale, but gaming offers artist teams plenty of other ways in.
London-based producer Bluegirl released her debut single, “Look At All The Happy People”, on 23 October and has already passed 600,000 Spotify streams. At a time where breaking through as a new artist is harder than ever, this is no mean feat.
Whether we like it or not, Christmas campaign season is under way, and artists are finding plenty of ways to get involved. The post is from Music Ally.
The third studio album by My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade – reached No.2 when it came out in 2006. Now its 20th anniversary edition has given the band their first Billboard 200 No.1, setting a new record for the longest an album has taken to reach the top.
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill could pave way for searches, seizures, and inspections when operators lose control of automated systems
Independent labels are used to making a small team go above and beyond. The person planning a campaign might also chase artwork, check metadata, answer artist questions, coordinate release delivery, […] The post is from Music Ally.
EDM star Martin Garrix is coming back to India in 2027 to play his largest tour of the country, which is being held to coincide with the Holi festival. The […] The post is from Music Ally.
Supplier told to clear benefit claims with health chiefs, though enforcing approval could prove tricky
Committee can't confidently tick off any of government's ten supply security tests, with alternatives a decade away
Blame it on the depreciating Indian rupee. According to collecting societies body Cisac’s just-released ‘Global Collections Report 2026’, which covers its members’ collections in 2025, in terms of music royalties […] The post is from Music Ally.
Indian music education and creator-development platform Mashup Edu — which runs Xcelerator, a ten-week music business programme for indie artists; and Backstage, an on-campus music industry literacy course for school […] The post is from Music Ally.
Katseye has postponed two shows on their current “Wildworld” tour due to member Megan Skiendiel’s illness. The group has postponed tonight’s show at Chicago’s United Center, as well as their performance at Minneapolis’ Target Center this Saturday.
Insight Partners, a longtime DistroKid backer, is set to retain a "significant minority stake" in the company, according to the July announcement. Source
The deal was struck in collaboration with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, as confirmed by an announcement today (November 5) Source
The Kroger Co. and 17 affiliated companies filed the motion on Monday (November 2) in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Source
Los Angeles-headquartered Encore Recordings was launched in November 2021 Source
Skiddle said the investment will support an existing five-year growth plan spanning lifestyle events, technology, marketing, and European expansion. Source
He produced “Bette Davis Eyes.” He engineered all those Linda Ronstadt records. He produced the Motels. And MORE! Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/val-garay/id1316200737?i=1000800034817...
Warner Records was hit with approximately a dozen layoffs across the company this week, including executive marketing VPs Victoria “Torie” Mason and Dalia Ganz and senior VP of publicity Fount Lynch, sources confirm to Variety.
Wrapped season is almost here! We want to make sure you get everything you can out of the experience. Here are a few simple ways to get your Spotify ready before the big reveal. Update your Spotify app Check your device’s app store to see if an update is available, so you’re ready to dive...
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 16: In this photo illustration the logo of the music streaming service SoundCloud is displayed on a smartphone on January 16, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
Anyone who studies consumer behaviour knows that what people say matters to them does not always align with how they act. Similar to the way that most people agree that eating healthy is important yet still reach for fast food , when it comes to everyday decisions, people tend to prioritise...
The playlist you made for the trip. The podcast you’re halfway through. The audiobook you’ve been meaning to start. Thanks to our partnership with United Airlines, you’ll be able to listen to all of those and more—directly from your seatback screen, logged into your own Spotify account.
Historically, the international expansion blueprint for music companies relied on exporting finished media assets from established markets to new ones. However, a new strategic model is emerging.
News podcasts generally do what they say on the tin: report events as they happen, with little analysis, because the headlineshave only just come in. Think daily briefings such as NPR’s Up First or News Now : short, tightly scripted, objective, and fast-paced, built to answer who, what, when and...
Adobe is teaming up with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to add a library of licensed music clips to the Premiere mobile video editing app.
Most advice about deep house sequencing is written for people with decks. Tutorials obsess over beatmatching, harmonic keys and transition lengths, as if the only way to make deep house flow is to mix it live.
The data center backlash is escalating into a significant debate over private rights, public resources, and the costs communities bear for AI development.
A 150-year visual history of what happened to the digits of pi after they were calculated.
On Sunday, Spotify teamed up with Live Nation Urban for RNB X Live, our first-ever standalone R&B festival. The event brought Spotify’s flagship R&B playlist RNB X to life at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Dallas, celebrating the genre’s legacy alongside the next generation of artists...
Nobody hands independent artists a manual. How do you book a tour, read a contract, make a great music video, or know when you’re ready for a manager? Many artists figure it out alone.
The abbreviation looks almost too plain to explain. R&B stands for rhythm and blues, a genre name shortened to three characters, and yet the name tells you surprisingly little about what comes out of the speakers.
Picard 3.0.4 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. This release fixes crashes on macOS with some language settings as well as a potential crash when updating the plugin list.