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Former child music star dies after pancreatic cancer battle
Former child star Foster Sylvers has died aged 64. The musician rose to fame in the 1970s alongside the rest of his family in their band The Sylvers. His brother, Leon Sylvers III, confirmed that Foster had died in hospice following a battle with…
Threads music stickers available to all users
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Threads has made its new music stickers available to all users in the app, after testing them out with selected users over the past few weeks. Threads' playable music stickers…
ElevenLabs Music v2: AI Music Generator Now Switches Genres Mid-Track - Memeburn
ElevenLabs, the voice AI company valued at $11 billion after raising $500 million in its Series D round earlier this year, has launched Music v2, a significant upgrade to its AI music generation model that introduces genre-switching capabilities…
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain
“Lights and shadows are continually flitting across my inward sky, and I know neither whence they come nor whither they go; nor do I inquire too closely into them,” Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook one spring day in 1840.
Giggs returns to Peckham at London's coolest music festival
London's coolest music festival returned to the south side of Peckham Rye Park on the bank holiday weekend. Gala 2026 was the event's tenth edition, and it's clear the Gala team have refined and near-perfected the experience it offers London's…
Does it feel like much of today's music sounds the same? You might not be wrong
Flipping through the radio the other day, my scanning landed on a top 40 station. I decided to leave it there for a while to check out today's hot hits. Without sounding like Grampa Simpson, I found the exercise disheartening. Was it my…
Fans Choose Ariana Grande's 'Hate That I Made You Love Me' as This Week's Favorite New Music
“Hate That I Made You Love Me,” Ariana Grande ‘s new single, tops this week's best new music poll. Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (May 29) on Billboard, choosing the star's highly-anticipated return to music as…
Sequel Chances For Cult Classic Horror Musical Candidly Addressed By Director Nearly 20 Years Later
Repo! The Genetic Opera has returned to theaters after nearly two decades, proving its cult classic status in the vein of similar gothic musicals like Rocky Horror Picture Show and Sweeney Todd. But this triumphant comeback may be more of a prelude…
UK music tech faces scale-up crunch as growth funding collapses
Britain's music tech sector is facing a scaling crisis, with funding for growth-stage firms collapsing by 90 per cent over the last five years despite the rapid rise of AI and growing investor interest in music licensing infrastructure. A new…
Creative Aging Festival returns to Kelowna with new cultural market, mural reveal and live music
The RCA Youth Mural Project will be unveiled June 17 at the Rotary Centre for the Arts in Kelowna, featuring artwork exploring belonging, diversity, and the environment. The Rotary Centre for the Arts will host the Creative Aging Festival, a…
Cut from a musical, kept by the ballet: how Korea's two stage worlds reacted to one actor's photo at Starbucks
Why a Daehangno musical instantly dropped a versitile actor while his ballet company stood by him Musical theater actor and ballet dancer Jung Min-chan lost a role in a musical and won a public defense from his ballet company all within six days --…
Thousands brace the rain and turn out for 'brilliant' music event
Thousands of people turned out in the rain to enjoy live music, local food and family fun in Inverness. The Gathering, hosted at Northern Meeting Park, was a sold out event, attracting 5000 music-lovers on May 30, with acts such as Skerryvore…
15 Funniest Far Side Comics About Music
Whether you are skilled at an instrument, or you struggle to carry a tune, you still can laugh at these The Far Side comics about music. The Far Side entertained readers throughout the 1980s and '90s with its trademark absurdist and surreal humor.
Hindusthan Records: How the shepherd boy playing a flute brought music into Indian homes
In the early years of the 20th century, strollers in Calcutta's busy Dharamtola area would have found it difficult to miss the gleaming horns of gramophone players in the show window of ML Shaw & Company. Founded by businessman Motilal Saha, the…
What K-Pop Can Teach Every Business About Market Creation
A woman with hearing aids enjoying Big Ocean performance at Kind Seoul in South Korea. Here is a rather unique and fantastic combination. A deaf K-pop group, a Seoul jazz club, and a permanent Auracast installation reveal how difficult markets…
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