Music & Tech
TYGAPAW announces new album, ‘Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide’, shares single: Listen
The Brooklyn-based artist’s third studio album is set for release on 8th May via Tresor Records
‘An Important Step’: European Parliament Adopts Report on Copyright and Generative AI
MEPs have adopted the resolution on “Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges” with an overwhelming majority of 460 votes to 71, and with 88 abstentions.
Wiz Khalifa Slams 'Scream 7' Movie for Use of AI: 'So Forced & F—ing Corny'
The AI deepfakes used in the film became a polarizing topic of discussion among fans.
The Black Crowes Share Their Current Approach to Making Music With New 'A Pound of Feathers' Album: 'F— It, Let's Just Keep Going'
Chris & Rich Robinson discuss how they crafted their 10th studio album in just two weeks.
Boy George on Using AI to Write Music: “I Have Fantastic Conversations with ChatGPT”
The Culture Club singer revealed he has used ChatGPT to help write multiple albums and improve his songwriting. Boy George on Using AI to Write Music: “I Have Fantastic Conversations with ChatGPT” Kiana Fitzgerald
Google had every opportunity to train its AI legally, but chose to do it on the cheap instead, say indie musicians in new lawsuit
Another AI copyright lawsuit, this time a group of indie artists are suing Google over its Lyria model. Like all AI companies, the lawsuit says, Google infringed copyright when training its model. But Google’s “conduct is different”, because it has the infrastructure in place to train AI legally
Frustrated about the sterile feel of your digital guitar rig? Friends and family commenting on how stiff your playing has been since you went all in with modellers? Victory’s PowerValve 200 has the mojo to restore that tube amp “thump” and feel
With an onboard Valve React Circuit, this 200-watt power amp is designed to push air through a real guitar speaker, giving you quote/unquote real amp feel when using a modeller
Apple Music to give AI-generated music option to be labelled with new Transparency Tags
Record labels and music distributors can choose to disclose whether published music and artwork was made with artificial intelligence in the new metadata category
Calvin Harris & Kasabian's 'Release the Pressure' Tops WARM Global Dance Radio Chart
The chart, now publishing on Billboard.com, ranks the top dance tracks worldwide, based on monitored airplay across 200-plus dance stations in more than 150 countries.
Cause for 'Celebration': Primary Wave Partners With Kool & the Gang Founder Robert Bell
"This partnership is especially meaningful," says Primary Wave’s David Weitzman, citing Bell's role in decades of funk innovation.
“The thing was lighting up like a toaster. It was glowing red”: Eddie Van Halen’s guitar solo didn't overheat a speaker during the making of Michael Jackson’s Beat It, but an AC/DC issue did
“Something let loose in the amplifier and put out a tremendous power surge,” says engineer Matt Forger
UK government weighs 'commercial research exception' that could let AI companies train on copyrighted music without permission (report)
UK lawmakers face March 18 deadline on copyright reform. Source
How New Superfan Streaming App Tapedeck Plans to Shake Up Artist Royalties, One Penny at a Time
"We are here to make it easier to make a living making music,” says Tim Quirk about his pay-as-you-go superfan app, which sets the floor at a penny per stream.
Suno-backed lobbying group sees a ‘gotcha’ in UMG earnings call
We reported last week on Universal Music Group's earnings call, including comments by its digital boss Michael Nash about how unpopular most AI-generated music is. “Despite the huge volume of AI uploads, the aggregate organic consumption of AI content by actual consumers is less than 0.5% based on t
PRS for Music sues Steam games-store owner over soundtracks
Good news if you've been hankering after a music-industry lawsuit that has nothing to do with either AI or the live sector. UK collecting society PRS for Music is taking legal action against Valve, owner of the Steam game-downloads store. According to the society, Valve has “never obtained a licence
Indie artists sue Google, claiming it mined music from YouTube to train Lyria 3 AI music tool
The all-indie roster of plaintiffs include those who have also sued AI music generators Udio and Suno in October. Source
ChatGPT can now Shazam songs, as Apple brings music recognition tool to OpenAI's chatbot
OpenAI has previously integrated Spotify and Apple Music into its app ecosystem. Source
AI and Sacem: defining the future of music copyright
Generative AI is no longer a future concept – it is a fundamental tool in today's creative process. But as the amount of AI-generated content increases, so do the complexities of […] The post is from Music Ally.
beatBread makes run of new appointments, including ex-Spotify and CD Baby execs
New hires from CD Baby, Spotify and Countsy bring finance, operations and AI expertise to the music funding company’s leadership team. Source
Harry Styles outed himself as an unlikely modular synth fan in his new Netflix special, but was all that knob-twiddling for real?
Styles' setup also included a Roland SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth