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AI & The Music Industry: It Could Change How Fans Choose Who Matters
Sunita Dhaliwal, co-founder and managing director of The Everyday Agency, a music and event marketing agency shaping electronic music today. James Blake put it plainly recently when he posted on his Instagram Story: 'If you're an artist…
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Excel Entertainment launches music label with Universal Music
Excel Entertainment has launched Excel Music, a dedicated music label backed by Universal Music Group as a strategic shareholder as well as its marketing and distribution partner. The label's first release will be the soundtrack album of Mirzapur:…
Olivia Dean turns down Glastonbury headline slot to focus on making new music
Olivia Dean has passed on the chance to headline Glastonbury Festival. The BRIT Award-winning star has been catapulted to global fame in the three years since her debut album, Messy, was released. Over the last three years, the 27-year-old has…
V/H/S/Mixtape' Will Blend Found Footage Horror With Music
The V/H/S anthology horror series continues its theme era with V/H/S/Mixtape, this time applying its found-footage frights to the world of music. As you might guess, this means several of the creators this time around have strong musical ties…
How Apple Music's Stephen Campbell Is Building 'A Portal Into the Depth & Breadth' of Dance Music
Working with DJs necessitates traveling like one. So while Stephen Campbell — Apple Music's global head of dance, electronic & DJ mixes — has a desk at the company's New York office, he more often takes meetings while on the move.
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
Like digging for fossils or panning for gold, the research process can be a tedious affair. But for any researcher, long days of searching and reading will eventually result in discovery. These are…
Bode Partners With Yale School of Music for Century-Celebrating Capsule Collection
Bode has unveiled its debut collaboration with the Yale School of Music honoring a century of music education The capsule takes inspiration from the historical legacy of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Yale Summer School of Art and Music…
Willie Nelson is wrong. He's waging war on the data centers streaming his music
Those are not measured questions about a particular proposal. They are sweeping claims about an entire category of infrastructure from someone with no demonstrated expertise in data center engineering, utility planning or land use policy. Nelson…
Brandon Flowers Says He's Considered Quitting Music: 'How Much Longer do I Want to do This?
Brandon Flowers has revealed that he's considering hanging up his microphone. In a new interview with t he Times, the Killers frontman compared his life on the road with that of his father. “My dad goes to yard sales, where he buys frames to…
Deezer Review: Strong Music Catalog, Original Shows, and a Social Twist
Despite a few companies falling by the wayside in recent years, the streaming music field remains highly competitive. In a competitive market, an alternative streaming music service needs unique features to stand out. When I first reviewed the…
'Miss Navajo' Musical in the Works From Director Billy Luther and Singer-Songwriter Raye Zaragoza (EXCLUSIVE)
“Frybread Face and Me” director Billy Luther is adapting his 2007 documentary “ Miss Navajo ” into a musical, which is currently in development. Now, 19 years after the world premiere at 2007's Sundance Film Festival…
JENNIE on New Music, Fan Culture, and Designing Her Own Life
Jennie is out of time. “Honestly, it's not on my side,” she says with a sense of urgency. It's spring and she's in L.A., where she's been recording her sophomore solo album. “I'm constantly in the studio. My fingers are crossed…
EXCLUSIVE: Guns N' Roses Fans 'Thrilled' as Slash Confirms New Music Plans
Slash has delighted Guns N' Roses fans by revealing the band is finally preparing to record new music, raising hopes the rock legends are moving closer to their first studio album in almost two decades. RadarOnline.com can reveal the guitarist's…
Burlesque musical postpones tour for a second time
Aug 3, 202614:18 by Katie Chambers Todrick Hall, Orfeh, Jess Folley, George Maguire, Paul Jacob French and Asha Parker Wallace in Burlesque at the Savoy Theatre, London. Photo: Pamela Raith Burlesque the Musical has pushed back the opening of its…
Brandon Flowers is considering quitting music: 'I'm really going through it right now'
Brandon Flowers has revealed that he is considering quitting music. The frontman of The Killers, who releases his third solo album ‘Thrasher' on August 21, admitted during a new interview with The Times that he's thought about how much…
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