Openstage Connects Fan Data to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini; 5 Insights From Berklee’s AI Music Summit; Madonna Preps Livestream
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Openstage MCP Debuts— Connecting Artists’ Fan Data Directly to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini
Connect it once, and your AI can reason across every fan, campaign, and transaction on the platform — and act on them — from an ordinary chat window. Most artists collect fan data and then let it sit. Openstage MCP is built to make it usable.
5 Insights From Berklee’s AI Music Summit (and the Student Protest Outside It)
A firsthand account of Berklee's inaugural AI Music Summit which explored the music industry's increasingly nuanced debate over artificial intelligence.
Madonna preps livestream and pop-ups with TikTok and iHeartRadio
Madonna-maniacs, take note: this Thursday (2 July) the Queen of Pop is hosting a listening party for her new album ‘Confessions II’.
2026 Song of the summer proves music for creators never expires
Every June, one question dominates the music industry: what will be the song of the summer? There are no judges or official ballots.
Tobi Parks of Tour Tech & xBK on Closing the Live Music Data Gap
How does an entertainment/IP attorney start creating digital tools for live music venue operational management and artist data management?
Viberate opens music data to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI bots via official MCP server launch – amid ‘AI-first pivot’ for analytics company
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets AI agents connect to outside data sources and act on them.
Notes .fm Debuts Credits .fm — Open Music Metadata Platform to Support Artists in the Era of AI
As training royalties from licensed AI usages brings potentially significant new revenue streams to musicians in the years to come, the importance for correct attribution at the credits level becomes more critical than ever to ensure accurate compensation.
This mastering membership is designed for producers without access to big budgets
Raff Di Renzo, founder of Eleven One One Mastering, is offering two professional masters per month for a nominal fee.
Music in training sets is the new Spotify Wrapped: how genAI uses your music
The music models generating audio on a platform like Suno are making sounds by reproducing recognized patterns. This has very little to do with how human creativity works, despite the industry’s use of terms like “training,” “learning,” and “intelligence.”
Finneas Talks SoundCloud, Billie Eilish and the Evolution of Record Production
Finneas explains how the role of a music producer has changed over time — and how he’s seen his own process evolve as well.
Finally, DJ Screw’s Music Is Coming to Streaming Services
Thirty years after the Houston hip-hop pioneer released his unclassifiable opus, 'June 27th,' much of his discography will at last be easily accessible.
Spotify’s Kay Hsu On a Mission to “Rid The Meme” That Audio Is Same as Radio
Spotify’s Kay Hsu is on a mission to “rid the meme that it’s radio.” That starts with addressing the definitional conflation of audio and radio, and fighting for podcasters to command a chunk of brands’ growing creator budgets, in addition to audio budgets.
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