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Watch The Weeknd kick off European leg of ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ tour in Copenhagen

It is now the highest-grossing tour ever by a male solo artist, selling more than 7.5million tickets

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SZA, Kenneth Blume Decry Use of Their Songs in AI Training Data Sets

“I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists”

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SZA, Kenneth Blume Decry Use of Their Songs in AI Training Data Sets

“I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists”

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Ken Carson Returns With New Album Xperiment

The rapper’s fifth studio LP arrives on July 3

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SZA Condemns AI Music Training

"If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate shit? You’re disgusting"

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SZA hits out at “disgusting” AI music after learning over 200 of her songs had been used to train artificial intelligence

"If you’re a musician and you support this degenerate shit? You’re disgusting"

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Mike Stock: Music Technology Has Not Simplified Production

Plus, the gear behind the SAW magic and what he learned from Paul McCartney

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Blossoms Stage Surprise Gig Inside a Van

It comes days after they announced their sixth studio album, ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’

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Watch Blossoms perform surprise pop-up gig in Manchester from inside a van

It comes days after they announced their sixth studio album, ‘Songs From The Wedding Cake’

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“Everything that's come – ever since the very first recordings we made – has made things slower, not faster”: Better music technology hasn’t made life easier for producers than it was in the ‘80s, says Mike Stock

Plus, the gear behind the SAW magic and what he learned from Paul McCartney

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NO FAKES: Senate panel backs bill that could cost platforms $750k per AI deepfake

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the NO FAKES Act Source

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Senate Panel Advances NO FAKES Act Targeting AI Deepfakes

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced the NO FAKES Act Source

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Feedback MTUK x AFEM: A Music Tech Pitch Competition for Electronic Labels and Publishers

Feedback is Music Technology UK's recurring pitch competition for music tech founders. AFEM is teaming up with MTUK on this one to put electronic music labels and publishers at the centre of the room.

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Music Tech Pitch Competition for Electronic Labels

Feedback is Music Technology UK's recurring pitch competition for music tech founders. AFEM is teaming up with MTUK on this one to put electronic music labels and publishers at the centre of the room.

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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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Cherry Audio emulates the Ensoniq ESQ-1 for its 40th birthday, “faithfully reproducing the complex, evolving, and richly textured sounds that defined the hardware”

The officially licensed plugin ups the polyphony, enhances the sequencer and adds a comprehensive effects section

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Sleep Return With Tour, Comic Book, and First New Song in Eight Years

The pioneering doom-metal band now includes Void’s Bubba Dupree on guitar and Melvins’ Dale Crover on drums

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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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Cherry Audio Releases Ensoniq ESQ-1 40th Birthday Emulation

The officially licensed plugin ups the polyphony, enhances the sequencer and adds a comprehensive effects section

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Akai MPC One and MPC Key 37 Receive Second-Gen Upgrades

The affordable MPC One and its keyboard counterpart get upgraded CPUs and more storage, but no MPCe pads