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ARIA Boss Warns Australian Politicians on AI Lobbying Demands
Australia is one of the countries where the music industry is slugging it out with some tech companies to win the ears of politicians, as the latter mull what rules to put in place covering AI technol
TikTok Launches External Ad Network Across Nearly 400K Apps
TikTok has been making a splash with some announcements at Advertising Week New York 2026, and while they’re not directly music-related, they’re worth taking in if you’re doing marketing on the platfo
Fender updates website with AI and artist features
Fender has been more than just a maker of instruments for some time now. In the last decade we’ve written about its moves in music education, its Fender Studio music-making app and its Fender Next art
South-east Asia a key region for global music virality, says UMG
Universal Music Group has been making south-east Asia a strategic priority for some time now. The company’s AMEA CEO Adam Granite has been talking about trends in the region at the Music Matters 2026
Arijit Singh announces largest India tour
In January, when Arijit Singh announced that he would no longer be accepting playback singing assignments — a declaration that was incorrectly interpreted as his retirement — we speculated that […] Th
Yung Sammy, Arma, and Sixth Ocean sign with THG India
Rapper Yung Sammy, singer-songwriter Arma and electronic music producer Sixth Ocean are the newest set of acts to sign exclusive global management deals with The Hello Group (THG) India, the […] The p
Powderfinger teases new project
Hailing from Brisbane, Powderfinger was one of the elite bands of their era, earning 18 total ARIA Awards, and closing out their career with five successive No. 1 albums.
Louis Godfrey Knows Management Starts With Vision
A lot of artist management advice sounds like it was written after the win. The brand is defined, the tickets are moving, the team is in place, and everyone gets to pretend it was obvious from day one. Louis Godfrey (@louisgodfrey) has seen the polished version of that machine from the inside, spend
Powderfinger Is Teasing ‘Something Extraordinary’
Hailing from Brisbane, Powderfinger was one of the elite bands of their era, earning 18 total ARIA Awards, and closing out their career with five successive No. 1 albums.
Jabra Evolve3 75 Gets Prime Deal
The Jabra Evolve3 75 is currently on Prime Big Deals on Amazon, bringing the on-ear wireless headset down to $288.15 from its typical $323 price. That is not the kind of massive headphone discount that jumps off the page on percentage alone, but it is worth a look because the Evolve3 75 isn’t trying
EDC Las Vegas 2027 Expands Across 12 Days
Above Image Cred: Demian Beccera EDC Dusk and EDC Dawn will place two festival weekends inside a citywide program running May 13 to 24. EDC Las Vegas 2027 has spent years increasing the scale of a single festival weekend. In 2027, Insomniac is changing the calendar instead. The Las Vegas Motor Speed
Melodic Deep ADE 2026 Club Train Lineup
Ape Drums, Floyd Lavine, Yulia Niko and Laolu join the four-hour moving club event on October 22. Melodic Deep will celebrate its tenth anniversary during Amsterdam Dance Event with a four-hour club event aboard the 50 Club Train. Ten Years In Motion takes place Thursday, October 22, 2026, from 11:5
AI licensing principles emphasize equal value for song and recording rights
As the music industry enters into ever more deals with AI platforms, the indie publisher community has again insisted that - with AI - song rights and recording rights must be valued equally, unlike i
PROJECTOR's 'I Need A Lie Down' blends industrial and post-punk
With Brighton quartet PROJECTOR industrial drum machines, angular post-punk and rant-pop share the same space. New track ‘I Need A Lie Down’ was designed to “make people feel sick and culminate in a h
AI and music: Court rulings on voice cloning and fair use
There have been two judgments this week of relevance to the ongoing AI debates in the music industry. A Japanese court ruled that publicity rights allow performers to stop unapproved AI voice clones.
Notable music releases from the past week
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Logic1000, Sasha Keable, Fontaines D.C., Strawberry Guy + Petra
Streaming fraud sentencing highlights perceived lack of legal risk
The streaming fraudster who pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in relation to an $8 million streaming scam will be sentenced next week. The Music Fights Fraud Alliance says the sentence should “r
Olympia Grand Hall concerts canceled due to planning issues
The revamped Olympia complex in West London was due to present a Winter Music Series of concerts in its Grand Hall in December, the first music shows in there since 2022. However, the concerts, featur
Major labels deny collusion in physical media royalty negotiations
The US Copyright Royalty Board is reviewing what mechanical royalties songwriters and publishers should receive from 2028. It’s labels who pay mechanical royalties on physical records, and the major l
Liverpool duo Clinic to release tenth album, 'Wild In The Streets'
Liverpool duo Clinic have been making genuinely strange art-punk since the late 90s - surgical masks, acidic vocals, jumble sale organs, a Grammy nomination. Tenth album ‘Wild In The Streets’ is out 3