Apple Music steps into video livestreaming space
The music streaming platform will broadcast Goldenvoice’s electronic festival Head Trip next month, stepping up its streaming capabilities
Bandsintown For Artists Introduces Seven New Fan Data Tools
These integrations are designed to streamline email and SMS data into marketing platforms such as Laylo and Mailchimp.
Spotify adds videos of archive and 2026 MTV VMAs performances
Spotify’s editorial team has been curating playlists around this year’s nominees with highlights from past shows as well as podcast clips and other content.
ClassicalBot uses AI to track classical-music concerts globally
ClassicalBot started as a way to map classical-music concerts in the developer’s home country, before expanding to the world.
Musixmatch: ‘Lyrics are becoming the LLM of the music industry’
Max Ciociola turned Musixmatch into the world’s largest lyrics company. Now, with backing from TPG – and having struck a deal with Suno for a copyright-detection tool called Sentinel – it’s on a path to becoming something much bigger.
Tyla’s Fans Are Learning Her Show Before It Even Starts
Tyla’s A*POP Tour will be an in-person extravaganza of the South African choreography that bolstered her songs online. Fans already can't stop dancing.
BandLab Adds Text-Prompt Controls to AutoMix Tool
AutoMix is designed to work on music that already exists rather than generate new material, positioning it as a production aid that handles technical adjustments while leaving creative decisions to the user. The result is meant to serve as a starting point that creators can continue to refine manually.
Engram groovebox blends traditional sampling with generative AI
Its creator Evan King is well on the way to his $10.6k Kickstarter goal for this “generative audio sampler and groovebox”.
Spotify Expands Taste Profile Beta, Giving U.S. Premium Users More Say Over Recommendations
Spotify is expanding its Taste Profile beta to eligible Premium subscribers in the United States, giving listeners a more direct way to influence the recommendations they see on the platform’s Home feed.
Elton John, Charli XCX and Burna Boy among first artists to play at Apple Music Hall
Monday night’s alright for… lighting up Apple’s new music venue? Elton John will be the first artist to play Apple Music Hall in London.
Man who pocketed $8m using AI songs and bot streams asks for no prison time, arguing ‘no artist suffered any perceptible harm’
Michael Smith, the North Carolina man who admitted to collecting more than $8 million in royalties by using bots to stream AI-generated songs billions of times, is asking a federal judge to spare him from prison.
New Fake AI Artist River Cain Uses Conflict to Market Itself
At least at this moment, AI has not completely overtaken the music industry and caused the catastrophic affects we were worried it might at the beginning of 2026. It’s most certainly has been very alarming and disruptive, and the fear is real that ultimately AI will be downright existential for human creators. But the most devastating, overwhelming affects some have predicted have not taken shape … yet.
Live Nation to open 4,400-capacity Nashville venue The Truth on October 1, with sold-out Miranda Lambert show
Live Nation first unveiled The Truth in October 2025.
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