After ‘Emin-AI-em’ Backlash, David Guetta Says AI Is Music’s Future

AI voice generated music is the future David Guetta

Photo Credit: Sebastiaan Stam David Guetta created a rave hit featuring an AI-generated Eminem rap-a-like. He’s facing a lot of backlash over the use of AI—but he says it’s the future of music like every […]

Nile Rodgers and Otis Williams on Black Music’s Revolution – Rolling Stone

Nile Rodgers and Otis Williams on Black Music’s Revolution – Rolling Stone

In Episode Three of Hulu’s The 1619 Project, narrator and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones argues that Black Americans have, and still do, create and transform America’s musical landscape. In between a narrative arc examining […]

Naxos Founder Klaus Heymann on Classical Music’s Evolution

Photo Credit: Klaus Heymann © HNH International Ltd

Photo Credit: Klaus Heymann © HNH International Ltd Klaus Heymann, founder of the Naxos classical label, discusses digital distribution, supporting new artists, and classical education in a drastically changing music climate. When Klaus Heymann entered […]

Apple Music’s year-end roundup, Replay, is a little better this year

Apple Music Replay image features a listener’s top album, Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama.

Best of 2022 lists and end-of-year recaps are just around the corner, including Spotify Wrapped, the streaming platform’s flashy interactive feature that’s become an annual tradition that overtakes social media for a few solid days. […]

Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’ BBC Radio 6 Music’s Album of the Year 2022 – Music News

Kendrick Lamar’s 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers' BBC Radio 6 Music’s Album of the Year 2022 - Music News

Today (Tuesday 29th November) on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast Show, Lauren Laverne revealed the Top 10 6 Music Albums of the Year, with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar taking […]

Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music’s radical elder : NPR

Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music's radical elder : NPR

Lavender Country, led by singer and songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what it widely considered the first openly gay country album in 1973. Haggerty died this week at age 78. Marie Tamanova/Courtesy of Don Giovanni Records […]

Dance music’s presence soars, providing more than a quarter of 2022’s Top 10 hits – Music News

LF System heading for first UK Number 1 this week with 'Afraid To Feel' - Music News

Dance music’s popularity is escalating this year with the genre claiming more than a quarter of the hits that have made the Official Singles Chart Top 10 in 2022, according to analysis of Official Charts […]

R.I.P. FN Meka – Meet Sony Music’s Virtual Artist APOKI

Sony Music APOKI

Photo Credit: Sony Music FN Meka may be dead – but virtual artists are here to stay. Meet Sony Music’s K-pop sensation, APOKI. APOKI is a virtual character or ‘VTuber’ with a popular YouTube channel. […]

Web3 Weekly Wrap: Water & Music’s ‘Music and the Metaverse’ Playbook, Refraction’s Creative Grants Program, Vic Mensa and Keyon Christ, and More

Web3 Weekly Wrap: Water & Music’s ‘Music and the Metaverse’ Playbook, Refraction’s Creative Grants Program, Vic Mensa and Keyon Christ, and More

We detail our favorite NFTs, DAOs, platforms, and DeFi and DApp projects in the Web3 space from last week. This latest Web3 Wrap includes Part One of Water & Music’s ‘Music and the Metaverse’ research […]

Universal Music’s Geffen Will Reportedly Release BTS’ Solo Projects

Universal Music's Geffen Will Reportedly Release BTS' Solo Projects

BTS celebrating after winning “Album of the Year” honors at the 2016 Melon Music Awards. Photo Credit: HopeSmiling BTS members’ solo projects are reportedly set to release via Universal Music Group’s Geffen Records. The development […]

Web3 Weekly Wrap: BLOND:ISH Announces $BYEBYE, Maceo Plex’s NFT Collection, Water & Music’s NFT Sales Report, and More

Web3 Weekly Wrap: BLOND:ISH Announces $BYEBYE, Maceo Plex’s NFT Collection, Water & Music’s NFT Sales Report, and More

We detail our favorite NFTs, DAOs, platforms, and DeFi and DApp projects in the Web3 space from last week. This week’s Web3 Wrap includes BLOND:ISH’s announcement of a world-first environmental impact-to-earn token $BYEBYE, Maceo Plex’s […]

Family trio Yahritza y Su Esencia: Latin music’s new stars

Three siblings in hoodies and T-shirts

A year ago, 15-year-old Yahritza Martinez was playing soccer for A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, Wash. When she wasn’t on the pitch, she and her four brothers and sisters would wake up early in […]