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Yungblud hopes Bludfest can 'make a change' in the music industry
Yungblud said he “cannot believe” how big his music festival is becoming, and hopes Bludfest can “make a change” in the industry. The 28-year-old first created the festival in 2024 with the aim of increasing the…
How To Tell If Your Favorite Music Artist Is AI-Generated
Woman wears headphones while sitting at home with her laptop. One signal that can serve as a starting point to tell if a music artist is AI if there is repeated chart success at low actual sales volume, and popularity grew oddly fast. You've…
Music Performance Anxiety: Putting the Child in the Spotlight
“My mind becomes blank, I feel a surge of warmth overtaking my body, my heart races, my breathing almost stops, and my muscles become weak.” This is a description offered by a seasoned musician of the physical experience of anxiety…
Country music star Brad Paisley calls a proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo 'a monstrosity
A proposed data center near the Nashville Zoo is drawing pushback from local community members, including 14-time Country Music Award winner Brad Paisley. Paisley called the proposed data center — backed by DC Blox, a digital infrastructure…
Global Streaming Transforms Music, But Faces Duopoly And AI Fraud
Streaming has globalised the entertainment industry, enabling artists like Diljit Dosanjh and Arijit Singh to reach diverse international audiences. After a significant decline, global music revenues have rebounded, reaching nearly $32 billion in…
New Irish music mag leading cassette tape revival
‘MUSIC worth talking about' – that's the tagline for BLAB, a new quarterly magazine promoting the best in Irish alternative music. This is also music you can feel. BLAB comes with a small plastic rectangle that has magnetic tape and…
Deezer Remix Lab Pays Artists As AI Music Backlash Grows
The battle lines in music have never been clearer. On one side, AI platforms are generating tens of thousands of tracks per day, training models on artists' work without consent, and flooding streaming services with synthetic sound. On the other…
Free music series continue next week
Free concert series will continue in Sequim and Port Angeles next week. Venues and the concert lineups include: • Sequim Music in the Park Olympic Express Big Band will perform from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the bandshell at Carrie Blake…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding's star-studded musical performances revealed
A pair of musicians are set to make the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding into even more of a spectacle — if even possible. Stevie Nicks and Tim McGraw will perform at Madison Square Garden, the reported venue for the couple's nuptials…
The hidden factory shaping Melbourne's music culture
Above a circular foyer wrapped in overlapping posters of music legends, a framed photograph of one, Michael Gudinski, hangs alone in the corner of a hallway. The Mushroom Records co-founder, whom Jimmy Barnes called “the heart of Australian…
Gunman shot boy, 15, to death at music festival in park
A rapper who shot a 15-year-old boy to death at a music festival in Ladbroke Grove has been found guilty of murder. Aderahman Boumzough, 25, fired a single shot into Rene Graham's chest at Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Park on July 21, 2024. CCTV…
How adidas Home of Soccer turns sport and music into community - EARMILK
What do soccer and live music have in common? Community. Both have a way of bringing strangers together, transforming shared moments into lasting memories and creating a sense of belonging that extends far beyond the game or the song itself.
Tupac Was a Big Fan of This One-Hit Wonder and Encouraged Him To Keep Making Music After His 1990 Smash Hit
Tupac Shakur left a massive imprint on hip-hop in his tragically short life. Few rappers commanded your attention on the microphone as he did. His deeply poignant, emotional lyrics about his pain and plight resonated with fans just as much as his…
Can Edinburgh's new National Centre for Music and the Fringe still pay their way?
This time I was with the Royal High School Preservation Trust's chief executive Kate Smith, who is overseeing the project, and Jenny Jamison, the National Centre for Music 's (NCM) chief executive who will be responsible for the artistic programme…
What higher education can learn from music about teaching and feedback
Every serious music student has spent time in a practice room that felt less like a room and more like a mirror. A phrase is played, it falls short, and it is played again. The teacher stops the student mid-bar, not to discourage, but because the…
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