Drake Becomes First Artist to Hold Top Three Billboard 200 Spots
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“It Takes Two” Rapper Rob Base Dies at 59
The Harlem MC, who was one-half of the duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, had been living with cancer
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label With New Album Ruin: It’s Not Just Music
The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
DJ Koze Drops New Song “Spiralen”
The hypnotic, seven-minute track leads a AA-side single out next month
13 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bladee, Fakemink, and Eli
Stream new releases from Bladee, Fakemink, and Eli
Philipp Jung, Co-Founder of Get Physical and M.A.N.D.Y., Has Died
The German house DJ, producer, and label boss helped conduct transitions in electronic music as house spilled into adjacent scenes in the 2000s
Lisa, Anitta and Rema team up for globe-spanning World Cup song
One of the big industry talking points in recent years has been about artists from the most exciting non-Anglo territories collaborating with one another – no English-language artists required to break a track globally.…
WMG-backed pilot shows unsold vinyl records can be recycled
Recycled vinyl has been A Thing for a while now… but is it really A Thing that sounds as good as non-recycled vinyl? A pilot scheme from Warner Music Group and GZ Media aims to prove that it does.…
Endel and Richie Hawtin’s ‘Deeper Focus’ gets ‘remastered and reduced’
Five years ago, techno titan Richie Hawtin teamed up with AI-music startup Endel to launch ‘Deeper Focus’ – an “adaptive soundscape” based on his samples and creative DNA. Since then, it has been streamed for more than 5m hours.…
MMF shares tactics to combat fake music on artists’ profiles
The last year or two has seen a dispiriting growth in the number of artists finding AI-slop tracks uploaded to their streaming profiles pretending to be them.…
US Protect Working Musicians Act aims to boost indies’ agency
This appears to be ‘third-time lucky week’ for proposed US legislation relating to the music industry. We reported yesterday on the return of the deepfakes-tackling No Fakes Act after two previous attempts to get it onto the statute books.…
Canada’s levy on global video-streaming services has tripled to 15%
Music-streaming services have been campaigning hard in the last two years against a levy on their Canadian revenues by the country’s telecommunications regulator the CRTC, to fund local content and creators.…
Udio reveals details of its licensed AI-music app Starstruck
We all knew that AI-music firm Udio is working on a new service to launch later this year, based on its licensing deals with labels.…
US attorneys general seek Live Nation / Ticketmaster breakup
Live Nation settled with the US Department of Justice a few days into its antitrust trial, but a number of state attorneys general continued with their lawsuit… and won.…
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Listen to Mike D’s New Song “What We Got”
It’s the Beastie Boy’s second solo single, following “Switch Up”
Veeze Returns With Surprise Mixtape
Y’all Won is out now
Watch Olivia Rodrigo Unravel in New “The Cure” Video
The latest single from You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love is here
Charli XCX Walks a Runway to Hell in “SS26” Video
Featuring cameos from Abra, former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld, and a can of Poppi
Feeble Little Horse Announce New Album Bitknot Dropping Next Week
The Pittsburgh noise-pop band’s long-awaited follow-up to Girl With Fish
Wiki Announces First Solo Album in Seven Years
Ancient History arrives in June