Daniel Ek has spoken to the BBC about how Spotify plans to deal with AI-generated music - just as the streaming firm announces a new AI-powered translation tool for podcasters…
Music Mudder raises £61,000 for Nordoff & Robbins; Richard Antwi Scholarship awarded; new releases from Empress Of and Rina Sawayama, Lynks, Ty Segall, Aïsha Devi, Hinako Omori, and Luci; live shows from Pulp, Thundercat, Fever Ray and Oneohtrix Point Never…
Ana Frango Elétrico is set to release their third album ‘Me Chama De Gato Que Eu Sou Sua’ next month. “I started this album in 2021 with the intention of showing, in terms of sound, understandings and feelings about queer love, subjectively exposing myself”, they say…
The Music Venue Trust has called on the government to extend current business rates relief, warning that plans to remove the provision could result in an acceleration of grassroots music venue closures…
The Ed Townsend estate has dropped its appeal in the high profile song-theft case against Ed Sheeran. It had accused him of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote ‘Thinking Out Loud’…
The full line-up of 90s girl group Eternal have cancelled reunion plans after it was claimed that sisters Easther and Vernie Bennett refused to play Pride shows because they felt that such events have been “hijacked by the trans community”…
Sheffield City Council has granted the Electric Group a shadow licence for The Leadmill - meaning that it can legally run the venue if and when it evicts the current management team…