Tag: music business

• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs | The Verge

  June 24, 2025

  With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/686767/music-industry-ai-song-detection-tracking-licensing more ›

• How RZA Got Wu-Tang Clan Back Together for One Final Tour

  February 27, 2025

  Few groups have had more impact on the shape and evolution of hip-hop than Wu-Tang Clan, the Staten Island supergroup that helped define the sound of 1990s New York rap… more ›

• The Midnight Miracle: Bugs Bunny Math, ft. Black Star (Encore)

  February 22, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/QuyJDfM     “Art is a thing people forget they need until they need it” – yasiin bey Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove, Michelle Wolf, Niko Is, Narcy,… more ›

• The Ghosts in the Machine

  December 21, 2024

  Spotify’s plot against musicians. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/ more ›

• Music smashes box office records: Global Value of Music Copyright soars to $45.5bn, now worth more than cinema

  November 27, 2024

  Whether you’re investing, operating or earning from music copyright, you ought to know how much it’s all worth — and how each piece of the puzzle is trending. https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2023 more ›

• Snoop Dogg’s Times Square concert showed the ambitious future of music in Fortnite

  November 5, 2024

    In front of thousands of fans in Times Square, with most of the sprawling screens displaying his face, Snoop Dogg provided a twist on one of hip-hop’s iconic lines.… more ›

• As Coachella struggles, nostalgia festivals are booming: ‘We never stopped listening to these bands’

  June 7, 2024

  For anyone with a love of early-2000s R&B and hip-hop, the line-up poster for this year’s Lovers & Friends festival in Las Vegas is a dreamland. https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/03/lovers-friends-nostalgic-music-festivals more ›

• Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  May 30, 2024

  In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out… more ›

• March 21, 2024

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• The saga of Snoop Doggy Dogg

  February 1, 2024

  Sitting in a West Los Angeles recording studio, just around the corner from the police station where he was booked as an accomplice to murder, gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg… more ›