Deadmau5's mau5trap Label Launches 24-Hour YouTube Music Stream

Deadmau5's mau5trap Label Launches 24-Hour YouTube Music Stream

mau5trap, the storied electronic music label founded by deadmau5, has launched “Airplane Mode,” a continuous YouTube channel dedicated to progressive house and melodic techno. The 24-hour streaming channel features music selections curated by the mau5trap team […]

Norwegian CMO TONO Passes $102 Million Revenue for 2024

Norwegian CMO TONO

Photo Credit: TONO TONO, Norway’s collective management organization (CMO), has reached a historic milestone in 2024. The CMO has reported gross revenues exceeding NOK 1 billion ($102M) for the first time. Based in Oslo and […]

How Mood Music Came to the Foreground

How Mood Music Came to the Foreground

Instrumental mood music has surged in popularity in recent years, tapping into a widespread demand for subtle background noise and sonic escapism. The rise of artists like the Texan three-piece Khruangbin — who have garnered […]

Webtoon rom-com mega-hit Let’s Play will be a Crunchyroll anime soon

Sam sitting in a park with her laptop in Let’s Play

Let’s Play creator Leeanne M. Krecic has always followed her heart, whether as an anime enthusiast, a tuba player, a PC gamer, a computer scientist, or a webcomic creator under her alter ego, “Mongie.” And […]

7digital Emerges As a Serious Music Industry Superfan Platform

Photo Credit: 7digital/Songtradr

A small sampling of 7digital-powered platforms (Photo: 7digital/Songtradr) When it’s not Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube playing your music, chances are it’s powered by someone else — and often, that someone is 7digital. While the […]

Andor Season 2 Breaks Rotten Tomatoes Record With 96% Score—Star Wars Has A New Gold Standard

Andor Series High Rating

Andor Series High Rating (Photo Credit – Hotstar) The Force is strong with this one, like, critically strong. Just when we thought Star Wars had peaked with Jedi duels and Grogu-sized cuteness, Andor sneaks in […]

Bonobo on crafting the musical heart of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Lazarus

Photo of Bonobo and Shinichirō Watanabe smiling and giving a thumbs up sign in Tokyo.

Music has always been instrumental in Shinichirō Watanabe’s anime (pun intended). More than just merely background music, every soundtrack featured across Watanabe’s body of work is inextricable from the identity of each of his series, […]

We have way too many thoughts on A Minecraft Movie’s lava chicken video

Steve (Jack Black) and Garrett (Jason Momoa) grip arms in an intense bro kinda way while Dawn (Danielle Brooks) looks on dubiously in A Minecraft Movie

“Chicken jockey,” take a step back — it’s time for the official music video of “Steve’s Lava Chicken” to have a moment in the Minecraft movie spotlight. And by “official music video,” we mean “The […]

Copyright violations in 2025 poll campaigns continue despite reminders from IP groups

Why campaign jingles are a staple in Philippine elections

This may be an opportunity to make more Filipinos understand the value of intellectual properties at a time when copyrighted songs routinely get used in campaigns without artists’ consent MANILA, Philippines – First it was […]

Audoo Partners with GEMA on Music Impact Study

Audoo partners with GEMA for music impact study

Photo Credit: Audoo Music technology company Audoo has partnered with the German performing rights society GEMA on its Music Impact Study. GEMA’s study is a multi-faceted research study quantifying the commercial value of background music […]

Strict Rules Even Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Must Follow At Oscars Or Risk Getting Kicked Out

Are there rules that must be followed at the Oscars?

Are there rules that must be followed at the Oscars? (Photo Credit – theacademy/Instagram) Walking into the Oscars, one might assume that Hollywood’s most powerful and glamorous figures can do whatever they please. After all, […]

Seven TikTok alternatives users are flocking to as US app ban looms – from RedNote and Lemon8 to Clapper

Photo illustration of a phone screen showing a woman making a video on the Xiaohongshu app.

TIKTOK is poised to shut down its app for 170million US users on Sunday, according to reports, after a long battle with lawmakers. And the news has American users flocking to rival apps. 6 Chinese-owned […]

‘Vintage’ Christmas Songs Warped by AI on YouTube

Christmas songs warped by AI this year

Photo Credit: Christmas Melodies YouTube Channel Families seeking Christmas background music on YouTube during the holidays instead found AI-generated mash-up carols. The effect is subtle, since these Christmas compilations often start with a song that […]