Music & Tech
Sea to Summit’s XLite Camp Kitchen Is Built for the Creative Reset You Take Outside the Studio
Sea to Summit’s new XLite camp kitchen system hits the part of outdoor gear that gets easy to underrate until you are actually out there, hungry, tired, and trying to keep your pack from turning into a junk drawer. For anyone who spends most of the week making music, that angle feels pretty f
Canada’s SOCAN names Musical AI as its attribution partner to credit and pay creators whose work shapes AI music
SOCAN will recognize Musical AI as an approved tech partner for attribution services, and the two will explore how the technology can be applied in Canada. Source
SOCAN and Musical AI Partner on Attribution and Compensation for AI-Generated Music
SOCAN and Musical AI just announced a new collaboration aimed at one of the hardest questions in music right now: what happens when a song, recording, or composition helps shape an AI-generated output, and how should the original creators be credited and paid? SOCAN, Canada’s performing right
Oversized Shirts For DJs: 5 Brands For That Relaxed Fit In The Booth (…Or In The Studio)
Oversized shirts for DJs have become a reliable part of curator and selector culture because the shape works from soundcheck through the trip home. A roomier shirt can handle soundcheck, dinner, a crowded booth, and the late trip home without requiring an outfit change. The extra space around the sh
Vochlea DubBox Turns Beatboxing Into Finished Drum Loops Without Opening a DAW
Vochlea has released DubBox, a standalone beatmaking app built for producers who hear drum ideas in their head and sketch them out with their mouth before they ever touch a piano roll. The app takes vocal percussion, learns the user’s own kicks, snares, hi-hats, and other mouth sounds, then m
AI-generated tracks now account for more than 50% of Deezer’s uploads
Deezer has published more AI music stats, revealing that over 50% of new tracks uploaded to the streaming service are now AI-generated, on average 90,000 per day. That big stat will prompt more debate about how the streaming services and music industry deal with AI-generated music
Bill Callahan Is Entering the Audiobook Space
The singer-songwriter is set to narrate a new memoir about grief
“These circuits have a history and personality that I wasn’t willing to compromise”: Dirty Boy partners with Warm Audio to make its Neal Schon and John Frusciante-approved boutique pedals for the masses
The Junior Series presents Dirty Boy fuzz, overdrive and boost circuits in a compact stompbox, priced just 169 bucks
Bill Callahan to Venture into Audiobooks
The singer-songwriter is set to narrate a new memoir about grief
WMG’s Sureel teams up with Symphonic to let distro company’s artists track AI use of their music
Warner Music Group acquired Sureel in June Source
Sony Music sues Udio for a second time, with the extra 30,000 recordings that could result in $4.5 billion damages
Sony Music has sued Udio. Again. It wanted to add 30,000+ extra recordings to its original lawsuit, boosting the potential damages it could seek to over $4.5 billion. But the judge wouldn’t allow that late-in-the-day change, so Sony has simply filed a second lawsuit listing the extra 30,000 tracks
Acid Bath's early struggles and success
Sammy Duet on the chaos of the sludge metal pioneers' early days and how the unlikely triumph of their second act is a fitting tribute to late bassist and co-founder Audie Pitre
“When the head of the record company fell asleep during your set, you’re probably not impressing him much. That’s why we didn’t get signed to Roadrunner”: How cult heroes Acid Bath rose from the ashes to open stadium shows for System Of A Down
Sammy Duet on the chaos of the sludge metal pioneers' early days and how the unlikely triumph of their second act is a fitting tribute to late bassist and co-founder Audie Pitre
Apple Music to get more social with new ‘Friends’ playlist
Apple’s new iOS 27 software is on the way this autumn, including some improvements for Apple Music. 9 to 5 Mac has been running through some of the new additions.
Sony Music files new Udio lawsuit citing over 30k recordings
The judge in Sony Music’s legal battle with Udio recently barred the major from adding more than 30k sound recordings to its lawsuit. Now it’s taking a different path: filing a second copyright infringement lawsuit with those extra tracks.
Music Industry Groups Launch Generative AI Labeling Program
Organisations like the RIAA, the IFPI and the Grammys are all involved in the project
“I went over to the piano and started fooling around with the riff and in 20 minutes this song almost wrote itself. We were all dancing around the studio and loving what we were hearing”: The story of Phil Collins and Philip Bailey’s classic ’80s hit
“We ended up using the demo because it had an energy and a sound”
New AI Labelling Program for Music
Organisations like the RIAA, the IFPI and the Grammys are all involved in the project
Bill Callahan Releasing Audiobook
The singer-songwriter is set to narrate a new memoir about grief
Deezer Says Daily Delivery of Fully AI Music Reaches More Than 50% for the First Time
The service is now removing AI tracks it suspects have been used in streaming fraud — as well as those that haven't been streamed for at least six months.