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WATCH LIVE: Music industry legend Clive Davis remembered in funeral with Springsteen, Dionne Warwick
NEW YORK (AP) — Kenny G played a mournful sax solo to kick off the funeral Monday for music legend Clive Davis, as pop royalty turned out to honor a man who championed so many of their careers. Watch Clive Davis' funeral live in our video…
The show must go on: musical theatre cancellations lead to industry calls for urgent government help
Australia's theatre industry is in desperate need of tax reform to keep it alive, experts have warned the federal government, after two major touring musicals and a $20m opera cancelled shows in the space of a week, citing skyrocketing costs and…
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Virtuoso Music enters India with creator-first model
UK-headquartered Virtuoso Music has launched operations in India, marking its entry into the South Asian market. The company will operate across original music creation, rights management, artist development and distribution. It is currently…
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
Music streaming service TIDAL is the latest to take aim at AI-generated music with the introduction of a new policy that will prevent fully AI-generated music from making money on its platform. In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove…
SML: Spontaneous Music Live
Late last fall, word suddenly got out about SML, Los Angeles' latest torchbearers of slanted jazz. Following a snazzy New York Times profile and a second album that teased their squiggly sound out to delightful new levels, the quintet had two dates…
Willy Vlautin on spotlighting working-class American life in his novels and music
Novelist Willy Vlautin has built his career writing about people on the edges of the American dream, working-class families, lonely alcoholics, and those struggling to make ends meet in the fast-changing American West. While his books have earned…
How a study by Indian researchers is rethinking folk music
At monsoon gatherings in UP and Bihar, women have often sat together and sung kajris, the monsoon songs of longing and love. By the time a song is done, no one can say who wrote it. And that has been taken as proof that no one did. A research paper…
Appalachian Awakening: Rewriting American Music Culture
AVERY COUNTY, North Carolina -- If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes @ Sunset would be that story. But nothing comes easy in Appalachia. The five-member…
Blur drummer loses bid to continue £200m legal battle over music royalties
Blur's drummer David Rowntree has lost his bid to continue a legal battle over the distribution of £200 million in music royalties. Mr Rowntree was seeking to bring a legal claim on behalf of 160,000 songwriters against the Performing Right…
Scotland's national music prize, the SAY Award, invites entries for 2026
The SAY Award has also opened expressions of interest for its Design Commission, calling on local Dundee creators to design prizes for this year's nominees and winners, which will go on to be distributed at the Ceremony and displayed in V&A Dundee.
Tidal won't pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn't banning it outright
In July the platform will label tracks that are 100 percent AI-generated, but it's demonetizing them starting today. In July the platform will label tracks that are 100 percent AI-generated, but it's demonetizing them starting today. If you buy…
Tidal isn't banning AI music, but it won't pay people who upload it
Tidal revealed its sweeping policy on AI-generated music that details exactly how the music streaming service will handle this growing phenomenon. The music-streaming platform explained on its website that it would demonetize any music that's…
Yoasobi Joins Overwatch In New Neon Musical Collab
Posted in: Blizzard, Games, Overwatch, Video Games | Tagged: Yoasobi Overwatch gets a visit from the band Yoasobi as part of a new neon-soaked musical collaboration and event, starting on June 30. Overwatch teams up with Yoasobi on June 30 for a…
Sony Music Indonesia, Sun Eater Group Launch Joint-Venture Label Lunar
Sony Music Indonesia and Sun Eater Group have unveiled Lunar, a joint-venture record label aimed at developing and distributing Indonesian artists with global ambitions. The new imprint, formally incorporated as PT Lunar Musik Indonesia, launches…
Nationwide music video contest to showcase Russia's ethnic languages
A nationwide contest for music videos in the languages of Russia's ethnic groups is being launched to give regional performers a broader platform while helping to promote and preserve the country's cultural heritage. The ‘Strana zvuchit'…
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