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Scammers Impersonating Musicians Stole $12M From Music Industry
The FBI Nashville Division just dropped a serious warning that every music fan needs to hear right now. Over 527 people got caught slipping and lost $12.2 million to romance scams where criminals were literally pretending to be musicians, and…
Live Music Industry News Roundup
Ticketmaster is launching an integration that allows its verified concert tickets to be resold on the CashorTrade fan-to-fan marketplace at face value or below. “Fans deserve more ways to buy and sell tickets at the original price, with…
Surreal' as music producer Guy Chambers mentors Cannock student
A student says it is 'surreal' being mentored on the music industry by Robbie William's producer, Guy Chambers. Rory Black, 18, from Cannock, Staffordshire, is studying music at Telford College and came to Chambers' attention after winning a…
Turns Out Home Taping Wasn't Killing Music After All
For decades, the music and film industries have generally responded the same way to the emergence of any new technology capable of recording and distributing content: with a barrage of hostility. Many readers will remember the legal campaign…
Mean Girls the Musical shows why we're still so obsessed with this 00s classic
I've always thought that Mean Girls is the definitive high school movie and I'd probably go as far to say that it's my second-favourite film of all time - behind The Wizard of Oz. Yes, an odd combination, I admit! Written by Saturday Night Live…
'We wanted to put a mark on the world': the sweaty, singular indie music scene of early-00s Brighton
It's any given night in 2002. We're at the Free Butt in Brighton, a small pub with a stage and an anything-goes spirit that serves as an extended living room and rite-of-passage workplace for aspiring musicians. Natasha Khan – not yet Bat…
Hardcore Music Has Great Healing Benefits for Overall Health, According to Upcoming Documentary
Producers Howie Abrams, Seth Abrams, and Jammi York initially planned to write a book about the healing power of hardcore music. Genres like punk and heavy metal, and bands like Social Distortion, the Ramones, Bad Religion, and H2O. They wanted to…
Scott Aiges, who defined the role of music critic at The Times-Picayune, has died
Scott Aiges, who was The Times-Picayune's first full-time pop music critic before moving on to produce festivals, manage bands and teach high school, died Tuesday of glioblastoma in White Plains, New York. He was 63. At first glance, Aiges was an…
Niche, cryptic, trippy: Coachella's billboards are a preview of music branding in 2026
Over the past few days, new billboards have slowly been popping up along a 130-mile stretch of desert into Indio, California. One features a giant image of a crying face emoji; another is a picture of an unexplained blob; a third shows an edit of…
'Where the Music Had to Go' Review: Dylan and the Fab Four
“In the earliest days we were pretending to be Buddy Holly,” Paul McCartney once said of the Beatles. “Then we were writing like Motown. Then we were writing like Bob Dylan.” Given their influence, it's perhaps no…
Levi's Partners with ColorsxStudios to Promote Emerging Music Talent
Levi's is supporting a new platform to showcase rising talent in music. In collaboration with ColorsxStudios, the brand will launch Emergent, a multi-year global music program designed to spotlight and celebrate the originality of emerging artists…
E.R. Fightmaster Has New Music Out Today
feature image photo by Chelsea Guglielmino / Contributor via Getty Images Hello and welcome back to No Filter ! This is the place where I tell you what your favorite queer celebrities were up to this week, via Instagram! Let's grip it and rip it!
Music reviews: Ye, Raye, and Flea
The artist formerly known as Kanye West is “probably the most contentious figure in all of popular music,” said Kelefa Sanneh in The New Yorker. So, after 2025's flashes of blatant antisemitism and his more recent published apology…
Meet Bill Ackman's New Universal Music, Same As The Old One
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” sang The Who. A similar vibe hangs over billionaire Bill Ackman's $65 billion takeover proposal to move Amsterdam-listed Universal Music Group NV to the US, sell its stake in Spotify…
AI Music Generators Are All the Rage, and These Are Some of the Most Popular
In the AI era, one of the most popular uses of the technology is music generators. There are quite a few on the market, and some of them garner more users than others. From being used to build social media communities to just giving users a fun…
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