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The Black Wizards' new single and album

Porto trio The Black Wizards make garage rock with a political edge and a sharp sense of humour. New single ‘Wishing Well’ is frantic proto-punk, and their fourth album was recorded in five chaotic da

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Dreamtonics Unveils Instrument X for Compact Orchestral Sound

The Tokyo-based company, best known for Synthesizer V and Vocoflex - has a new instrument that uses advanced neural acoustic modelling to caress the perfect performances from a range of classical inst

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Casper Kelly's "Buddy" Review: A Horror Take on Children's TV

The demented new movie from director Casper Kelly stars Keegan-Michael Key and Cristin Milioti. The Creator of Too Many Cooks Explores the Horror of Children’s Television with Buddy: Review Liz Shann

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The Creator of Too Many Cooks Explores the Horror of Children’s Television with Buddy: Review

The demented new movie from director Casper Kelly stars Keegan-Michael Key and Cristin Milioti. The Creator of Too Many Cooks Explores the Horror of Children’s Television with Buddy: Review Liz Shannon Miller

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Grand Theft Auto VI extended preview details revealed

The preview arrives less than three months before the hotly anticipated game's release on November 19th. Here’s Everything We Learned from the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look Eddie Fu

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Dolly Parton's enduring music popularity

On this week's Trending Up, we look at listeners flocking to the timeless catalog of the late legend, as well as a resuscitated Dua Lipa hit and another new Tove Lo-spun-off rap hit.

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Rapsody's God Must Have Afro & Gold Hoops album

The Grammy-winning MC talks her new God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops album, sampling D'Angelo and honoring Nolan Wells.

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How Each Music Listening Platform Is Treating AI Music (Updating)

From BandCamp's outright ban of AI music to Spotify's "AI Personas" approach, here's how all the online music platforms are dealing with the fast-growing flood of AI-generated content.

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Here’s Everything We Learned from the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look

The preview arrives less than three months before the hotly anticipated game's release on November 19th. Here’s Everything We Learned from the Grand Theft Auto VI Extended Look Eddie Fu

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KATSEYE Drops Out of Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival After Megan Sprains Ankle: ‘We’re So Incredibly Sorry’

"We're sending all our love to Olivia," the girl group wrote.

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In Rapsody’s World, God Looks a Lot Like You: ‘There’s a Power Within Us That We Haven’t Tapped All the Way Into’

The Grammy-winning MC talks her new God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops album, sampling D'Angelo and honoring Nolan Wells.

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Beggars Group revenue hit $177M in 2025, as XL Recordings paid out $23M dividend to shareholders

XL released six new albums in 2025, with 82% of its turnover coming from outside the UK Source

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10 Essential House Music Tracks That Changed the Club World

Here are 10 Essential House Music Tracks you should be hip to, as they are classics that have that certain evergreen quality and will always light up a dance floor when duty calls. House music has never been particularly interested in standing still. For a genre built around repetition, it has an al

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Dolly Parton Had the Second-Most Streams of Any Artist on the Day of Her Death

On this week's Trending Up, we look at listeners flocking to the timeless catalog of the late legend, as well as a resuscitated Dua Lipa hit and another new Tove Lo-spun-off rap hit.

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Gabe Simon on Creative Process and AI

Gabe Simon, the writer and producer most famous for his work on Noah Kahan's two monster albums, talks big breakthroughs, getting inspired, putting family first, coping with success and why AI isn't f

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ElevenLabs Adds Song Editing Features to ElevenMusic

Tracks can be built from a user's own lyrics, from an existing recording, from a text prompt, or from scratch, ElevenLabs said. Source

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Kasbï on Why DJs Are Living Archives

Kasbï’s (@sachakasbi) “Astral” arrives on Blue Iris Records as a melodic and progressive house release shaped by organic textures, emotional movement, and the global influences that have become central to the label’s identity. The track places Kasbï in the foreg

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Kasbï and Giannni on Why DJs Are Living Archives

Kasbï’s (@sachakasbi) “Astral” arrives on Blue Iris Records as a melodic and progressive house release shaped by organic textures, emotional movement, and the global influences that have become central to the label’s identity. The track places Kasbï in the foreg

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ElevenLabs adds section-by-section song editing to ElevenMusic, as Suno, Udio, and Google build out rival tools

Tracks can be built from a user's own lyrics, from an existing recording, from a text prompt, or from scratch, ElevenLabs said. Source

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Riordon's rise from influencer marketing to DJ stardom

This weekend, the producer releases a new track and plays gigs at DC10 in Ibiza and Reading Festival and Creamfields in his native U.K.