Spotify Turns its Attention to Africa; Fender is the Next Creator Tools Major; The First On-Chain CC0 Sample Library

Africa, with its internationally recognised musical talent — and growing mobile phone use — is central to Swedish music streamer Spotify’s plans to extend its reach to a billion customers.

Fender has made a concerted effort to reach the new generation of guitarists over the past few years.

I’m personally also of the opinion that utility is an important factor in both the adoption of NFTs and in getting people to stop talking about NFTs and start talking about what the tech can do as a tool.

Royal's Justin Blau and Paradigm's Fred Ehrsam on how selling royalties directly to fans could end predatory record deals

CM.com has launched a new ticketing solution for the live events sector in the UK and Ireland.

Rivet, a creator economy focused start up, recently was accepted into the Winter 2021 Techstars Boston Accelerator Program. Rivet, and the 11 other companies participating in the program, are…

After bringing high fidelity music to UK Premium subscribers, might Deezer phase out HiFi subscriptions in other countries too?

Less than three months after announcing a $16 million seed round led by Founders Fund and Paradigm, NFT music rights startup Royal has raised another major round of funding, banking a $55 million Series A from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto investment arm.

Epic Games's musical ambitions for Fortnite just expanded: the company has acquired veteran music games developer Harmonix.

The iconic hip hop record store-come-label and distribution company founder Joseph Abajian gets personal on why he loves records & where the vinyl revival is headed

Hip-hop veterans Cypress Hill have leapt aboard the non-fungibles bandwagon, in partnership with Primary Wave Music and NFTs startup Unblocked.

Arpeggi Labs is curating the first on-chain CC0 sample library, creating composable building blocks for web3 music development Arpeggi Labs is the first blockchain music creation platform, providing…

Foxtel have announced a new partnership with Live Nation Australia which will bring its members unrivalled access to unmissable live music. 

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