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Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards Posts Stunning Photos of Wedding To Soccer Star Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in Portugal

The couple got engaged in 2022 and share two children, son Axel, 4 and daughter Alanis, who was born in January.

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“Despite this minimalist footprint, it’s one of the sturdiest racks I’ve tested in this price bracket”: Donner Groove Ultra electronic drum set review

Donner continues its assault on budget gear with an e-kit packing fantastic hardware and standout looks, but the module needs some work

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Howie D Embraces His Puerto Rican Roots in ‘Coqui’: ‘I’ve Held Myself Back, But Now is the Time’

Amid the Backstreet Boys' residency at The Sphere, Howie Dorough debuts his solo, Spanish-language single exclusively below.

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Record Store UK launches campaign to create a vinyl emoji

There isn’t an official emoji for vinyl, despite the format being nearly two decades into its sales revival. But that could change…

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Harry Styles Covers Simon & Garfunkel and Reimagines Deep Cuts at Intimate Meltdown Festival Set in London

Styles is the curator of the 2026 edition of the festival.

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“It changes how I work – it delivers the best sound, simplifies setup, offers a sonic palette that spans decades and improves everything”: The new MU-1 mic makes the much-loved ribbon-and-condenser recording trick way more accessible, says JZ Microphones

It promises to combine a classic dual-mic studio technique into one product

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Scream queen Samara Weaving is a huge ‘Red Dead Redemption’ and ‘Assassin’s Creed’ fan

She brings her PS5 to every movie set

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Harry Styles Covers Simon & Garfunkel and Reimagines Deep Cuts at Intimate Meltdown Festival Set in London

Styles is the curator of the 2026 edition of the festival.

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Tim Burgess to record live album straight to vinyl at Kendal Calling

The album will be mixed, mastered, and pressed for sale on vinyl at the festival within only 48 hours of the set

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‘Extraordinary Success’: Vivid Sydney 2026 Wraps After Rare Set by Eddy Current Suppression Ring

Sixteen years have passed since ECSR worked their homebaked brand of punk rock on Sydney crowds. That damned drought came to an end at Vivid Sydney 2026.

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Carl Cox Receives OBE in King's Birthday Honours

The pioneering British DJ and record producer is one of several music figures saluted by King Charles.

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Carl Cox Awarded OBE In King’s Birthday List

The pioneering British DJ and record producer is one of several music figures saluted by King Charles.

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Audeze Maxwell 2 ANC Targets Gamers Who Need Focused Audio

Audeze has introduced Maxwell 2 ANC, a new version of its Maxwell 2 gaming headset that adds active and adaptive noise cancellation to a product line already built around planar magnetic audio. The new model is positioned as the most advanced gaming headset Audeze has produced, with an adaptive hybr

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CBS Settles Copyright Dispute Over Colbert's 'Peanuts' Song Performance

The departing Late Night host jokingly hoped playing a Charlie Brown song wouldn't "cost CBS any money!" It apparently did.

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Acustica Audio GREY PRO 2 Gives Producers Three VCA Compressor Flavors In One Plugin

Acustica Audio has released GREY PRO 2, the next version of its multi-model VCA compressor plugin, bringing three different compression characters into a single workflow built for tracks, buses, parallel chains, and full mixes. The core idea is pretty direct: instead of reaching for three different

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Lars Previews A Bigger 2026 With New Single “No Stranger”

Lars (@dj_larsofficial) comes into “No Stranger” with real club mileage behind him. Across 15 years behind the decks, he has built a name in New York’s electronic circuit, hosted his own parties, and supported Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Eric Prydz, MEDUZA, Benny Benassi,

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“I get to 171 tracks before any errors during a full playthrough at the lowest buffer setting”: Apple MacBook Neo review

We put Apple’s newest machine to the test to find out if it really is the ultimate budget laptop for music production

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Four music datasets holding millions of tracks are being shared among AI developers, The Atlantic reports

The collections were identified by The Atlantic's Alex Reisner, who reported that they are circulating within the AI-development community. Source

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The Fall's Final Album Set for Autumn Release

The English post-punk band had been working on Post-Script before Mark E. Smith’s death in 2018

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The Atlantic uncovers ‘millions’ of songs used for AI training

It’s very clear that some AI-music services have trained their models on huge datasets of commercial music. But which songs exactly? That’s the question at the heart of lawsuits against Suno and Udio, and it’s also the subject of a fascinating investigation by The Atlantic’s ‘AI Watchdog’ project.