Merck Mercuriadis steps down as Hipgnosis Song Management chairman

Music-catalogues buyer Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF) is in the process of being acquired by investment firm Blackstone.

TikTok’s parent company has filed a US patent application for a device that plays music

Filing suggests that ByteDance may have considered the market power of an iPod-like device.

SoundCloud teams up with Fadr to get fans remixing Tinashe

SoundCloud has always been a fertile platform for remix culture, and now it’s finding a new way to encourage it – with the buy-in of artists.

Training AI music models is about to get very expensive

Record labels are suing two leading AI startups and are reportedly exploring a licensing deal with YouTube—actions that will determine what the future of AI music sounds like, and if there is one at all.

NEW VISIONS Highlights Visionary Approaches for the Music Ecosystem

On September 5 and 6, 2024, the first edition of NEW VISIONS For Music & Sound will take place at the historic Pfefferberg Brewery in Berlin. Organized by MUSIC TECH GERMANY and WISE, the event will bring together some of the most visionary minds from the music sector.

DRiP Haus buys fellow startup Vault Music to boost the music experience on Solana’s blockchain

Vault Music's platform enables artists to sell limited-edition tracks that can be sold on its secondary market, with artists taking a cut on resales

The RIAA's lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

Like many AI companies, music generation startups Udio and Suno appear to have relied on unauthorized scrapes of copyrighted works in order to train their models. This is by their own and investors’ admission, as well as according to new lawsuits filed against them by music companies.

Song Exploder: Episode 274: Crowded House

Crowded House made “Don’t Dream It’s Over” with Grammy-nominated producer Mitchell Froom, who they went on to work with multiple times. For this episode, I talked to frontman Neil Finn about how the song was first written, and how it developed with his bandmates and collaborators in the studio. And we talked about the profound connection people have had with the song over the years.

Will·I·Am adds radio ‘hyper-casting’ to his FYI productivity app

The blurb pitches it as “evolving broadcasting into hyper-casting” where creators (artists included) can make their own radio-style stations mixing music, news and other spoken-word content.

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