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Queens Of The Stone Age remember teenage love on nostalgic new single ‘Where The Goth Girls At?’

The band's ninth album ‘Perfecth’ arrives next month

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Taylor Swift Announces The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore

The deluxe edition features four new songs. Taylor Swift Announces The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore Alex Young

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Justin Bieber Pulls Up For Surprise Jam Session in L.A.’s MacArthur Park

The singer is not touring in support of his two Swag albums, so surprise daytime drum jams may be Beliebers' best bet to see him live for now.

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Taylor Swift Announces The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore

The updated version to her 2025 album includes four new songs

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UK Businesses Under-Licensing Music

Soundtrack (formerly Soundtrack Your Brand) is one of the companies licensing music for business use: restaurants, hotels, bars, retailers, gyms and more. But it seems many of those businesses still d

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Spotify Haryanvi Music Growth

In January, Spotify launched its dedicated Haryanvi music hub in response to the strong growth of the language on the platform, the listenership of which grew almost 7x between February […] The post i

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Woman from Black Sabbath’s album cover creates AI-themed rock opera

The album explores the narrative of “myself (or Alice) falling in love with AI”

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The US and UK’s share of the world’s ‘Superstar’ artists has fallen from 55.7% to 40.7% since 2021, shows Chartmetric data

Figures come from Global Music Pulse, a new report from Chartmetric, which tracks 14m artists across streaming and social services Source

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Spotify marks Haryanvi music growth with new flagship playlist

In January, Spotify launched its dedicated Haryanvi music hub in response to the strong growth of the language on the platform, the listenership of which grew almost 7x between February […] The post is from Music Ally.

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Watch Brandon Flowers perform ‘An American Dream’ and tease next Killers album on ‘Fallon’

“We’ve got some titles floating around”

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Soundtrack says UK businesses aren’t licensing music properly

Soundtrack (formerly Soundtrack Your Brand) is one of the companies licensing music for business use: restaurants, hotels, bars, retailers, gyms and more. But it seems many of those businesses still don’t see the need for specific licences. The post is from Music Ally.

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Woman from Black Sabbath’s album cover creates AI-themed rock opera

The album explores the narrative of “myself (or Alice) falling in love with AI”

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AFEM Explores Sustainable Audience Building Post-Algorithm

Long‑form content is becoming a more sustainable way to build audiences in a post‑social era. This episode shares what’s working now: formats that retain attention, platforms that reward depth, and th

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Tame Impala at Toyota Center – 09.20.2026 (Review)

Tame Impala’s North American Deadbeat tour came to a stop at Toyota Center in Houston this past Sunday night and it was the second of back-to-back shows which each drew sold-out crowds. Perhaps, a stadium tour is in order for the next go-around. But for now, everyone in attendance was able to enjoy

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AI-music guru François Pachet: ‘It’s no longer the jungle era’

Back in 2016, a team at Sony CSL Research Lab released ‘Daddy’s Car’ – a track “in the style of the Beatles” created using their Flow Machines AI-music system. The post is from Music Ally.

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Taylor Swift to release new single 'Patient Zero'

The new track drops later this week, and features a noticeably different look than seen with ‘The Life Of A Showgirl’

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Soundtrack for 'Control: Resonant' features viral hit

‘Zoe’s Mixtape’ contains Vilma Jää’s viral hit ‘Manalan Mailla’

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Amy Winehouse Band to play 'Back to Black' anniversary show

The special Roundhouse show will mark 20 years of Winehouse’s landmark second album

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Kurt Vile on his new album and hometown

The guitar legend spoke to NME about “gathering up the old ghosts” of his home city on 10th album ‘Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me’, being “hungry as hell” in the early days of The War On Drugs, and ho

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Kurt Vile talks Fontaines D.C. collab, his shoutout from Sam Fender, and paying tribute to Philadelphia: “It’s like rap – I’m calling out my fucking zone!”

The guitar legend spoke to NME about “gathering up the old ghosts” of his home city on 10th album ‘Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me’, being “hungry as hell” in the early days of The War On Drugs, and how he plans to "give back" as he hints at future plans The guitar legend spoke to NME about “gatherin