MusicLM Opens Up for Public Testing — With Usage Restrictions

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Photo Credit: The Pancake of Heaven! / CC by 4.0 About four months after unveiling its text-to-music generator, MusicLM, Google has officially opened up access to the AI-powered tool. Google announced the expanded availability of […]

Electronic duo Tvorchi represents Ukraine : NPR

Electronic duo Tvorchi represents Ukraine : NPR

Andrii Hutsuliak (L) and Jeffrey Kenny (R) pose for a portrait in Ukraine’s Central Kyiv Railway Station on April 28. Alexey Furman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alexey Furman/Getty Images Andrii Hutsuliak (L) and Jeffrey […]

How 50 years of NAMCYA built generations of young artists

How 50 years of NAMCYA built generations of young artists

MANILA, Philippines – “Filipino music is the expression of the soul of the Nation.” So read the presidential proclamation that first set up the National Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). And 50 years later – in […]

Why did Malcolm McDowell’s son, Beckett, leave ‘American Idol?’

Why did Malcolm McDowell's son, Beckett, leave 'American Idol?'

After “American Idol” fans were left guessing which contestant made a low-key exit from the competition, singer Beckett McDowell revealed he departed on his own terms. During Monday’s episode, “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest announced […]

Game Awards at Hollywood Bowl will highlight music of ‘Hogwarts Legacy,’ ‘Last of Us’

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After more than a decade and a half absence, the sound of video games will make themselves heard on the Hollywood Bowl stage this summer. Scores from the “The Last of Us,” “Diablo,” “League of […]

Ahmad Jamal obituary | Ahmad Jamal

Jamal at the Louisiana jazz and heritage festival in New Orleans, 2011. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Dapper and sagacious, Ahmad Jamal may have looked more like a UN delegate than a jazz musician, but he was recognised as a truly great jazz artist by some of the music’s most notable pioneers. […]

‘Anything is possible’: why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse | Classical music

Björk onstage at Reykjavik’s Harpa concert hall in October 2021.

On 31 May 1926, a ship carrying the entire Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra docked in Reykjavík. The musicians stayed in Iceland for 17 days, giving 14 concerts of music by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert at venues […]

Jenna Ortega Enjoys Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Daft Punk

Jenna Ortega Enjoys Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Daft Punk

The score in any Scream film is just as important for setting the tone as a character’s desire for survival, and Jenna Ortega — who plays Tara Carpenter in the latest two films — thinks […]

L.A. Phil 2023-24 season celebrates Disney Hall, Frank Gehry

Gustavo Dudamel conducts.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Frank Gehry-designed home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a 2023-24 season that will pay tribute to the hall and its architect, the orchestra […]

N.Y. Philharmonic chief looks to Gustavo ‘Dudamel era’ after historic appointment : NPR

N.Y. Philharmonic chief looks to Gustavo 'Dudamel era' after historic appointment : NPR

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic, March 9, 2022. Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic hide caption toggle caption Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic, March 9, 2022. Chris Lee/New York […]

Best of the rest: the classical CDs we missed in 2022 | Classical music

French composer Charlotte Sohy (1887-1955) aged 40.

Despite more than a decade now of dire predictions of the terminal decline of the classical recording industry there’s still no sign of its imminent demise. Companies may come and go, and the emphasis of […]

‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm | Movies

James Cameron on the set of Avatar in 2009.

“I’m kind of just living on Pandora right now,” said James Cameron recently, as he tinkered with a remaster of his 2009 blockbuster Avatar, for rerelease in preparation for its sequel, Avatar: The Way of […]