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Macklemore will headline three European arena benefit concerts under the Free Palestine banner in October, with all proceeds going to organizations supporting Palestinians and additional performers and U.S. dates still to be announced. The September 24th announcement puts the first show at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 26th, followed by Accor…
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LANDR says artificial streams flagged by Spotify across music it distributes fell 95% between the first quarter of 2025 and the second quarter of 2026, as the company adds more fraud screening before releases reach streaming services. The Montreal-based music-creation and distribution platform disclosed the figure in a September 22nd…
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Spotify is expanding Reserved beyond early concert-ticket access with setlist playlists that change after each show, personalized share cards and a dedicated in-app destination designed to keep ticket holders inside Spotify from the presale through the days after the concert. The features begin rolling out September 24th for Reserved, Spotify’s…
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Sam Smith and Normani’s long-running copyright fight over “Dancing With a Stranger” is moving toward a jury trial after a federal judge refused to end the case in the defendants’ favor, leaving jurors to potentially decide whether the 2019 hit infringed an earlier song built around a strikingly similar central…
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U2 will release Carnaval De Luz, their first full studio album of new material in nine years, on November 13th, with a 12-song tracklist that reaches from Brian Eno and Martin Garrix to a closing Bono duet containing Dolly Parton’s final recorded vocal performance. The band formally announced Carnaval De…
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CHVRCHES are back with “Roses,” their first original single in three years and the opening release of a new partnership with Futures Music Group, giving Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty a different label home as their fifth album takes shape. The song arrived September 22nd, following 2023 standalone…
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A song can feel completely secure in the practice room and surprisingly unfamiliar the moment another person sits down to listen. Hands tighten. A lyric that has survived dozens of rehearsals suddenly disappears. The difficult passage goes fine, then an easy entrance gets missed because attention is somewhere else entirely.…
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A piano-roll performance can have the right notes, the right rhythm, and the right sound while still feeling strangely flat. Look underneath the notes and one reason often becomes visible: every velocity bar is sitting in roughly the same neighborhood. Velocity is easy to treat as a miniature volume control.…
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A producer can spend an hour searching for the next sound when the arrangement may need the opposite. Muting a kick for two beats, shortening a sustained chord, leaving the vocal alone after a phrase, or pulling a layer before a transition can change the shape of a track without…
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Sony Music Group has become the first music company to join the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media, bringing its increasingly firm position on AI licensing into a coalition already representing major companies across film, television, journalism, publishing, education and technology. The September 23rd announcement places Sony…
