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Kanye West makes “sole decision” to postpone France gig indefinitely, one week after UK Wireless ban

"I know it takes time to understand the sincerity of my commitment to make amends. I take full responsibility for what’s mine but I don’t want to put my fans in the middle of it" The post Kanye West makes “sole decision” to postpone France gig indefinitely, one week after UK Wireless ban appeared fi

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G. Love Reports Significant Loss After Crypto Account Hack

The musician downloaded a fake, malicious app from Apple's App Store. G. Love Loses Reported $424,000 in Crypto Account Hack Travis Bland

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G. Love Loses Reported $424,000 in Crypto Account Hack

The musician downloaded a fake, malicious app from Apple's App Store. G. Love Loses Reported $424,000 in Crypto Account Hack Travis Bland

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IK Multimedia iLoud Sub Review: Small Room, Full Picture, And An Editor’s Choice Winner

Small studios have a predictable problem. You get a pair of monitors that do a solid job through the mids and top end, you learn them well enough to get work done, and then the low end keeps forcing extra checks in headphones, in the car, and on any playback system with real bass extension. [...] Re

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Ye Faces a Possible Ban From Performing in France After Wireless Festival Cancellation

The rapper is scheduled to perform at Marseille’s Stade Vélodrome in June.

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Moog celebrates the legacy of its founder with special limited-edition reissue of the Minimoog Model D - but only 500 will be made

Each Bob Moog Tribute Edition Minimoog Model D will be hand-assembled in Moog’s North Carolina production facility

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SyncPlacement Launches With a More Targeted Take on Music Sync Research

SyncPlacement is entering the music software space with a pretty clear pitch. It wants to help independent artists, managers, and labels stop treating sync like a black box and start approaching it with better information. That means showing where similar artists have already landed placements, who

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Boomcha Aims to Fix Stiff MIDI Drums With Real Groove Data

Sampleson’s Boomcha takes a direct approach to one of the most common problems in production. Programming drums that feel human still takes time, and most tools either give you static loops or overly rigid MIDI. Boomcha sits in the middle of that problem and solves it in a way that feels practical i

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Madonna Teases ‘Confession on the Dance Floor 2’ With Instrumental Song Snippet, Provocative Speaker Straddling Pic

The pop icon announced in November 2025 that she was prepping a sequel to her beloved 2005 electropop dance record.

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ANOTR & 54 Ultra’s ‘Talk to You’ Dominates Global Dance Radio Chart for Second Week

The chart ranks the top dance tracks worldwide, based on monitored airplay across 200-plus dance stations in more than 30 countries.

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ANOTR & 54 Ultra’s ‘Talk to You’ Spends a Second Week Atop WARM Global Dance Radio Chart

The chart ranks the top dance tracks worldwide, based on monitored airplay across 200-plus dance stations in more than 30 countries.

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“Lyndon was not only a founder, but also a creator and innovator”: UK amp pioneer Lyndon Laney has died, aged 77

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi leads tributes to the founder of Laney Amplification, whose tube amps give helped birth heavy metal – and who also had a connection with Led Zeppelin, too

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We’re getting excited about this mysterious new keyboard from Auxy and Cuckoo

The creator of one of our favourite music-making apps is about to release its debut hardware instrument

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AI Expected to Drive Increased Creativity Post-Disruption

After the AI disruption regarding rights and protection stabilizes, artistic output will become significantly more creative.

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AI’s Second Wave, From Anxiety to Imagination (Guest Column)

After the AI disruption regarding rights and protection stabilizes, artistic output will become significantly more creative.

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Recreating the "Take On Me" Synth Riff

After several attempts at creating the perfect pop production, Take On Me finally became the global hit that A-ha deserved. We build its classic lead sound in software

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Jack White Criticizes Donald Trump's Jesus Christ Post

After picking a fight with the Pope, the president took down the offensive AI image in which he depicted himself as a divine figure healing a man.

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UMG’s Michael Nash sees ‘no audience’ for explosion in AI music

Universal Music Group’s digital chief Michael Nash sat down with Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava at last week’s HumanX AI conference, offering the latest insight into how both companies see the AI-music space. Nash went in hard on “the false narrative of artist replacement” by AI, suggesting that it was

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Meet the Swiss distro company banking on agentic AI to power the ‘next generation’ of indie labels.

Dennis Hausammann was a rising rapper before setting out to build AI-powered tools for indie label founders. Source

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Jack White Blasts ‘Blasphemy’ of Donald Trump’s Jesus Christ Post: ‘How Did So Many Millions of People Fall For This Conman?’

After picking a fight with the Pope, the president took down the offensive AI image in which he depicted himself as a divine figure healing a man.