As TikTok shutdown looms, music industry holds its breath

PinkPantheress and Ice Spice speak onstage during the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards

Superstar Pride was in his bed at 2 a.m. one morning, writing the words to what would become the Mississippi rapper’s breakthrough hit, “Painting Pictures.” He knew it was special by the time it left […]

France Is the Latest Country to Ban TikTok On Gov’t Devices

France Is the Latest Country to Ban TikTok On Gov't Devices

Paris, France. Photo Credit: Anthony Tan Days following TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s appearance before Congress, France has become the latest country to prohibit the video-sharing app’s use on government devices. France’s minister of public […]

‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history | Art

Minerva Cuevas, installation view of in gods we trust, Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023.

Taking in Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas’s exhibition in gods we trust is like feeling your way through bits and pieces of enormous counter-narratives that retell hundreds of years of Mexican history. Like the proverbial tip […]

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves | Books

Madeline Miller.

From Circe to Medusa via Persephone, Electra and the women of Troy, it seems there are few characters from Greek mythology left who haven’t been the subject of a feminist retelling in recent years. This […]

U2’s The Edge wants to be the ‘vanguard’ of the ‘resurgence’ of guitar music – Music News

U2's The Edge wants to be the 'vanguard' of the 'resurgence' of guitar music - Music News

U2 guitarist The Edge wants to be “the vanguard of this resurgence of guitars”. The 61-year-old rock legend has revealed he has a lot of “great material waiting” and that he hopes frontman Bonos LP […]

Fall Out Boy Compare Being a Rock Band in 2023 to The Last of Us

Fall Out Boy Compare Being a Rock Band in 2023 to The Last of Us

Fall Out Boy just released the new album So Much (for) Stardust, and where their last few records dabbled in a more commercial sound, the new LP harkens back to the band’s most rock-heavy days. In a […]

The Modernization of MusicOps — How & Why Music Operations is Evolving

Music Operations is Modernizing webinar

Photo Credit: Hans Vivek Much like a band, the music industry functions like a well-oiled machine. There’s always a team of people who work behind the scenes in concert with one another to keep everything […]

NYC Artist Goes VOGUE: An Intimate Look Behind ChRZA’s “Walk Away” Music Video and Her Experience Navigating the Underground Kiki Ballroom Scene

NYC Artist Goes VOGUE: An Intimate Look Behind ChRZA’s “Walk Away” Music Video and Her Experience Navigating the Underground Kiki Ballroom Scene

There is little media coverage available on the Kiki Scene from a musical perspective, nearly nonexistent coverage from within the EDM community. Upon listening to the opening of “Walk Away”, (a Pop single turned Vogue […]

The hype versus reality of AI in Hollywood

The hype versus reality of AI in Hollywood

Austin, Texas —  For every problem you can think of, someone is out there pitching a solution that involves artificial intelligence. AI could help solve such intractable problems as climate change and dangerous work conditions, the […]

Filipinos share ways to boost media and info literacy in the Philippines

How can you be more responsible on social media? Here are some tips

MANILA, Philippines – With the pervasiveness of online disinformation, it’s become even more important and crucial for people to be critical of the information they consume and post on social media. However, not all people […]