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It looks like Apple Music is getting a new icon
Apple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eigh…
DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Artists are taking to social media to complain that DistroKid has unceremoniously removed their work without notice. Now DistroKid has confirmed to…
Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths
Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1,…
Arturia adds proper sound design tools to its AstroLab synths
Arturia's AstroLab series was already amongst the best stage keyboards out there. They essentially put the company's AnalogLab suite of vintage synt…
Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song
I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or…
Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it…
Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters
Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for hosting performances, recording sessions, a…
No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over tw…
Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now
Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you…
Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plugins
Lunacy, purveyor of fine VST plugins like Cube, a synth that you control by moving a ball around a 3D space, has just launched Nova, a platform wher…
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection
The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checki…
Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes…
Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor
Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the ro…
Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip
It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available…
Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages fo…
Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph
I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I also love generative music c…
This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used
Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes. Death By Audio's latest is, in fact, both. While it's in a guitar pedal enclosure, Amp Crash is ac…
Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals
As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Sw…
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones au…
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotiona…
No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
Sadly, there hasn't been a new episode of No Dogs in Space since July of 2024. Part four of the podcast's series on Can wrapped up an abbreviated se…
Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro
Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His…
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparenc…
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming…
Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?
Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will…
The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts
Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eli…
Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years
Ariana Grande filed a lawsuit on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against the currently unidentified hackers who allegedly stole and…
Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of…
Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online au…