Music & Tech
AFEM and MTUK Announce 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.
YouTube’s AI Training Argument Raises Alarm Among Indie Music Advocates: ‘Not Informed Consent’
“I suspect if people aren’t angry about it, they don’t know about it,” says one creator advocate of YouTube potentially training AI on user content.
YouTube’s AI Training Argument Raises Alarm Among Indie Music Advocates: ‘Not Informed Consent’
“I suspect if people aren’t angry about it, they don’t know about it,” says one creator advocate of YouTube potentially training AI on user content.
24 Amazon Prime Day Deals Music Producers Should Check Before The Sale Ends in 2026
Prime Day can be a mess for music producers because Amazon puts cheap podcast bundles beside proper studio tools and presents them as the same kind of deal. Most of the listings are easy to skip, though there are real price cuts on gear that can improve how you write, record, mix, or perform. Donner
Deezer’s new in-app remix feature lets users speed up and modify tracks by Céline Dion and other artists ‘with full rights compliance’
Deezer says every remix is created with the explicit agreement of the artist, and that streams of remixed versions are attributed to the original work Source
“I’m just not gonna tell you which ones they are, and I don’t think you’ll know”: John Mayer says he has already used his signature Neural DSP plugin on record – but on which songs?
Your guess is as good as ours, but it was one of 5 things we learned from the superstar's demo video of his Archetype plugin suite
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Supergirl Is Less Riot Grrl and More Spice Girl: Review
The DC Studios cosmic adventure, in theaters June 26th, gets a lot of spark from Milly Alcock's performance. Supergirl Is Less Riot Grrl and More Spice Girl: Review Liz Shannon Miller
Reactional scores $2.8m European Innovation Council grant to scale personalized music as a monetization layer in gaming
Firm's patented Reactional Music Engine lets players personalize in-game music and lets developers build soundtracks that react to gameplay in real time Source
Chelsea Wolfe shares two new songs ‘The Dark’ and ‘Death Is Not The End’, and announces US and European tour
The tracks come as the first taste of her upcoming ninth studio album
Check out the epic orchestral parts being recorded for Muse’s new album ‘The Wow! Signal’ at Abbey Road
Their 10th studio LP is set to land this Friday (June 26)
The best plugins for re-creating the grit and punch of classic analog drum machines
If you love the sound of an analog drum machine, but don’t want to splash-out on vintage hardware, here’s our pick of the best vintage machines, in hardware and software form
More Prediction Markets: Meta aiming to create prediction market platform – report
Meta’s internal R&D team has long been trying to build new stuff that allows the company to expand outside of its titanic trios of Instagram and Facebook – with varying success. While Threads is still gaining traction, and the Ray-Ban smart glasses collab is a work in progress, the metaverse platfo
Spotify seeking to grow ad business via AI ad voice-overs and automation
Yesterday, we reported that Snap was looking to juice up its ad offer by adding AI-powered tools, and lo! here’s another ad platform doing a similar thing. Spotify’s VP of advertising partnerships Brian Berner took to the Digiday Podcast to explain Spotify’s new ad tools – which include generative A
Signed speakers from Foals, Wolf Alice, Robert Plant up for grabs in Record Store Day x War Child prize draw
Entries are open to the public from today (June 24)
Luminate data: US market diversifying away from domestic and Anglophone music
The US has always, understandably, been a domestic-centric market – but it’s now at a “vibrant international crossroads”, a new Luminate report says. While two thirds of on-demand audio streams are still of US artists, and by American artists, that dominance is steadily eroding each year. In the fi
Sample YouTube, Spotify or any other app with a single keyboard shortcut – this time-saving tool captures system audio with minimum hassle
AudioRoute looks like one of the most streamlined solutions for recording system audio that we've seen yet, letting you sample any app without leaving your DAW
Rent-to-Own Music Software: A Cautionary Guide
Rent-to-own is often touted as the good alternative to plugin subscriptions but there are still reasons to be wary. Here are seven things to consider before signing on the dotted line
Amazon Prime Day: Top 5 Sound Treatment Deals for Studios
Sound treatment is the most easily-overlooked aspect of any music-making space, but Prime Day just became the perfect excuse for you to right that wrong and spend your budget most effectively