Government lawyers say a jury got it right when they convicted the Run-DMC rap icon's godson of his long-unsolved 2002 murder.
The singer's lawyers say, "The actual evidence in this case will show that David Burke did not murder Celeste Rivas Hernandez and he was not the cause of her death."
The singer is being held without bail, Los Angeles Police announced on Thursday
The singer was set to embark on her Get In Girl tour in support of her upcoming album Toy With Me
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television is also among the honorees.
Singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dead in Hollywood in the trunk of his Tesla in September. According to the LAPD, D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, was arrested by the Robbery-Homicide Division for the murder of Hernandez and is...
Trainor's latest tour was set to kick off in June in support of her upcoming album Toy With Me, due April 24.
RiRi isn't in a rush for baby No. 4 just yet.
"The old protect the young, and then the young protect the old."
The Italian tenor will give a free concert at Mexico City's iconic Zócalo on April 18, alongside Los Ángeles Azules and Ximena Sariñana.
The ceremony — held in Guayaquil's Sanchez Aguilar Theatre — celebrated Ecuador's booming music industry.
Tarlton was an influential Montreal concert promoter, record label head and record producer.
The legislation would have provided grants to independent venues in the state through a 5% assessment on tickets sold on the secondary market.
In the wake of the verdict against Live Nation Wednesday, in which a New York jury found that the company runs an unlawful monopoly in the concert industry, two questions have towered above all others: “Will ticket prices go down?” and “Will this open up the marketplace for artists and venues?” The...
Meghan Trainor has canceled what was slated to be her “Get In Girl” tour, citing the difficulties of balancing work and family in the wake of welcoming a new baby. The pop singer shared a message on social media about the tour cancellation, apologizing to fans who were looking forward to the shows.
"It was my own damn fault for not being more diligent," artist says
For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.
Grateful Dead Citrus Daydream Lager is now available nationwide.
GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.
"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”
The landmark decision could reshape the live entertainment industry, but a lot has to happen first
I’m talking about the band, not clothes. My secret cultural resource is “The Week,” that’s where I pick up left field tips about books, TV shows, podcasts and music.
FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
"We've been in the public eye for more than 30 years right now, and all we've ever tried to do is protect our children and love our children," former Spice Girl says
An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.
News arrives as live music becomes an increasingly important revenue stream for K-pop's biggest companies Source
Upcoming sequel wants to capture a "uniquely Ukrainian perspective" on the post-apocalypse.
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China cable-cutter demo coincides with more sabotage of subsea Internet cables.
In episode 2 of Netflix’s “Beef,” Oscar Isaac‘s character, Josh Martin, starts jamming on his Moog synthesizer. He’s not good at it. “It’s really amateurish,” Oscar and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Finneas says. In season 2, Josh is the general manager at an ultra-posh country club.
Digital services for brands from Jeep to Peugeot will feel the presence of AI.
South Asian actors are far likelier to make it to Time magazine’s annual of the 100 Most Influential People in the World than south Asian musicians, so it helps if […] The post is from Music Ally.
During her keynote address at the All About Music conference in Mumbai in August 2025, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said that India had “192m users on free streaming in India, […] The post is from Music Ally.
Google is making it easier to feed your photos into Nano Banana for more personal image generation.
It might seem odd that anyone could record an album as first-rate as “Then Again” and then not only shelve it, but forget about it. But not everyone is Rodney Crowell, who has been busy enough following his muse that it hadn’t really reoccurred to him that he had an excellent “lost” album sitting...
There doesn't seem to be new safety or efficacy data, but Kennedy touts them anyway.
"First Light" will appear in the title sequence of 007 First Light, the first James Bond video game since 2012
Live Nation antitrust verdict explained Source
The company bets that software can create a distinct—and better—riding experience.
Play Dead launches with more than 400 concerts, including 20 previously unreleased vault recordings
The club rat detailed her upcoming eighth record in her British Vogue cover story
Over the last few years, Coachella has made substantial changes to its programming. New stages, surprise headliners, and most notably, fewer and fewer artists. Here are the numbers behind Coachella lineups post-pandemic.
It may not be the James Bond theme that fans have long pined for, but Lana Del Rey and 007 have finally teamed up: In collaboration with five-time Bond film composer David Arnold, the singer has dropped the official title song for the upcoming video game “007 First Light,” from IO Interactive and...
The New Wave era of spiky but danceable pop tunes and sharp colorful looks may feel like it happened a million years ago, but to everyone’s surprise, the 45-year old musical movement has never really gone away.
TuneCore is celebrating its 20th anniversary. MBW meets up with two of its senior execs to reflect on the journey so far, the careers launched and the lessons learned – as well as a look at the current landscape and where the company might go next… Source
The pop punk princess covered Morissette’s hit track for Mile End Kicks
Nine-year-old Kai's podcast explores how quantum technologies can transform our daily lives.
Charli xcx is going full rock ‘n’ roll for her next album. In a new cover story with British Vogue, the pop singer revealed that she’s ditching the dance beats and Auto-Tune that made her last album, “Brat,” a lime-green phenomenon.
“Boots on the Ground,” recorded with Massive Attack, targets “federal pricks … sittin’ in a room full of Army posters”
New York’s Bryant Park has announced the 2026 schedule for its summer Picnic Performances, presented by Bank of America — a free outdoor performing arts festival in the heart of Midtown.
For most of recorded music history, quality was scarce. Recording, producing, and distributing a song that sounded “good” required significant investments of time, money, and skill, along with access to gatekeepers, who carefully filtered what entered the system. Source
At Spotify, we want your experience to feel intuitive and personal across every moment of the day. Whether you’re streaming your favorite playlist while you work or browsing new recommendations on the go, Spotify should feel familiar and easy to use.
The act's streaming and physical sales in Japan made them the world's 13th biggest-selling act in 2025 — without an international campaign. UMG says their global push is still to come. Source
Fortnite’s in-game music game Festival is into its 14th season now, having originally launched in December 2023. As ever, the season has an artist as its headliner: Laufey is the star this time round. Yes, Fortnite meets jazz-pop! With an avatar in a giant rabbit head on drums, obvs.
Coldplay’s last studio album came out in October 2024. Dua Lipa’s came out in May that year. Arctic Monkeys’ last long-player was released in October 2022. And Calvin Harris’s came out in August 2024. Why are we reeling off the most-recent album release-dates for British artists?
As moves for social-media bans for under-16s increase around the world, the US-based Pew Research Center has published an interesting new study on how and why teenagers use three key platforms: TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat.
South Korean agencies Hybe, SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment and YG Entertainment compete fiercely when it comes to developing and breaking K-Pop artists. But they are also collaborating with a view to the bigger global picture.
Apart from the presence of Katseye’s Lara Raj, Coachella—which programmed Arooj Aftab and Raveena in 2022; Ali Sethi, Diljit Dosanjh, Jai Paul, Jai Wolf and Joy Crookes in 2023; AP […] The post is from Music Ally.
Firm says original sample creators will be compensated when their sounds are used to generate new material Source
When Live Nation settled with the US Department of Justice a few days into its antitrust trial last month, the expectation was that it would reach a similar settlement with the state attorneys general who were also suing it.
Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform.
US and Chinese landers could be operating in close proximity on the Moon later this year.
Grammy-winning songwriter formalizes expanded partnership with WCM as company deepens ties to Latin repertoire and writer development. Source
In the great Indian audio-streaming service shake-up that has seen the shutting down of Resso (2024), Wynk Music (2024) and Hungama Music (2025), Gaana has stood out for sticking around […] The post is from Music Ally.
Can a commercial recording studio still thrive in the age of AI, home recording, and constant industry change? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, Bobby Owsinski sits down with Tom Weir, Grammy-winning engineer and owner of Studio City Sound.
Oasis’ 2025 reunion tour won the Major Tour of the Year award at the 2026 Pollstar Awards, held Wednesday night in Hollywood as the centerpiece event of the annual Pollstar Live! conference, hosted by the primary trade magazine focused on the live music business..
Download here: https://luminatedata.com/reports/yearend-music-industry-report-2025/ What surprised me most in this report at first was the biggest hit per decade. When it comes to the sixties, it’s Creedence Clearwater’s “Fortunate Son.” I’m not saying that Creedence was not huge in the sixties,...
It wasn't the first time the surgeon cut out the wrong organ.
Trump administration dropped out of the trial, but 33 states kept fighting.
"The vault is solid. The delivery truck is not."
So let me see… They put Richard Grenell on the board, they hire behind-the-scenes fixer Mike Davis, who put the knife in the back of Gail Slater, the chief antitrust officer, they even employ Ms. Alternative Facts herself, Kellyanne Conway, and THEY STILL LOSE?
Google mostly creates products for the web, but it has some new desktop apps today.
Landmark verdict could reshape the live entertainment industry. Source
Google's AI enables robots to read gauges while inspecting industrial facilities.
Merlin CEO, Charlie Lexton, addresses THAT fallout with TikTok - and Merlin's own anti-fraud progress Source
The pair discussed UMG's approach to AI, including how the company balances protecting artists' rights with leaning into AI innovation Source
Music-production firm Audiotool has unveiled ‘Let’s Build’, a series of online and in-person events designed as a hackathon for music apps. The post is from Music Ally.
From gripping thrillers to poignant memoirs, the 21st century has had no shortage of unforgettable books. To celebrate the standout storytelling of our modern era, we’re launching Best of the Century So Far—a curated audiobook collection of titles released each year between 2001 and 2025,...
Spotify has inked a one-year deal with US grassroots-venues body NIVA to support its members, with plans to make them more prominent. The post is from Music Ally.
Throughout 2026, Spotify will boost visibility for independent venues through existing features including venue pages and its Live Events Feed. Source
Splice is launching three new GenAI tools for musicians and producers, including ‘Variations’. But it is also stressing the ethics. The post is from Music Ally.
For many artists, independent venues are where music careers begin and fan communities take shape. Independent venue operators work hard every day to keep local scenes thriving as they navigate a rapidly evolving live music landscape.
We say ‘notional’ because there is surely very little chance of getting this money. Nonetheless, Spotify and the three major labels have won a default judgement against Anna’s Archive.
You don’t need us to tell you that the BTS comeback album ‘Arirang’ was a hit in its first week. But you might need Luminate’s number-crunchers to tell you exactly how big the album was in streaming terms. Thankfully, they have. “Looking at global streaming data, ‘Arirang’ earned 739.1 million...
The recent rounds of reorganisation within major labels have seen some big-name executives exit those companies – either as part of planned cuts, or because the time seemed right to seek new pastures or do their own thing. A flurry of those own things have been announced this week.
Books have always moved with us, whether tucked in our bags or humming in our headphones. With audiobooks, Spotify is building new ways to bring our favorite stories along for the ride. Just over two years after launching, Audiobooks in Premium is now live in 22 markets.
Scroll around the internet and you’ll find a lot of grumbling about subscription prices. Nowadays, everything is a subscription – audio streaming, video streaming, gaming, software, plugins, workstations, AI models, and no doubt several other categories I can’t think of right now.
The creator economy used to be an adjacent entertainment ecosystem to traditional entertainment. Those days are numbered – if not over already. Creators are now a foundational component in how traditional entertainment produces and distributes content at scale. Source
From immersive storytelling to laugh-out-loud comedies, podcasts are booming in popularity across Mexico and Latin America. That’s why we’re excited to announce that next month, Mexico’s biggest podcast celebration, the Spotify Podcast Awards, are back.
A lot of attention is being paid to the “rules of engagement” for podcasting: format preferences, video versus audio, and platform battles like YouTube versus Spotify. The industry is deeply focused on how and where audiences are consuming podcasts, and rightly so. Source
After failing in Congress, the White House is pressuring states to weaken AI safeguards, tying funding threats to policy outcomes and quietly reshaping laws that govern emerging technology today nationwide.
This is a copy of the job description at:https://join.com/companies/metabrainzorg/15986127-executive-directorPlease use the above link to apply. The MetaBrainz Foundation is seeking a new Executive Director (ED) to lead it during a time of great change for how music, data, and code are made, shared...
This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube.
Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival.
I mean, I guess it kinda looks like the moon? | Image: Kate NV / RVNG Intl. For obvious reasons, I've had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit.
A month ago I wrote about building the Parachord Android app in a few days. 146 commits, a full native app, Spotify and Apple Music playback, scrobbling, AI chat, the works. I was genuinely surprised it came together that fast.
After launching the Spotify Podcast Awards in Mexico last year, we brought the fan-voted celebration to Paris this week for its first edition in France.
How Creators and Creative Industries Are Pushing Back Against AI Theft — “These campaigns call on policymakers, politicians, and the creative community to take action to ensure that artists’ works are licensed and that they are compensated before AI companies use them and respect the foundational...