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Leading record industry bodies unite to introduce labelling program for generative AI in recorded music

Leading music industry bodies such as the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of ...
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“My secretary came into the house and said, ‘Wow, you look like you're under a lot of pressure. I bet you that'd be a good idea for a song.’ And I went, ‘Thank you ...

How a throwaway comment relieved Billy Joel’s writer’s block and yielded one of his most iconic hits of the 80s. We put ourselves under pressure! When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
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This free browser-based sampler turns YouTube into an MPC

Producer Halfpast's retro-themed YPC chops up any YouTube video across the computer keyboard for instant finger-drumming fun When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Suno scraped millions of songs from YouTube, Deezer and stock music libraries, according to hacked data

Media reports that in training its models, the AI music generation platform lifted at least "2,013,545 music clips" from ...
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“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined wit…

David Crosby called Mitchell “unquestionably the best of us” and recalled that during their brief relationship during the ...
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“Its grown way beyond what I could have ever imagined when I sat in a little studio in 2013, messing around with these little ‘80s tracks”: We catch up with synthwave ...

There’s music that paints a picture in your mind, and then there’s the vivid hyper-neon futurism of The Midnight. Oft-cited as the purveyors of perfect night-drive music (particularly if you live on ...
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"I said, 'God, you’ve nicked all my things.' He said, ‘Yeah, I know, man. I know. It's like a homage to you’”: David Bowie admitted that he stole the Stones' sound on ...

Well, Jagger never met Elvis. How come? Because John Lennon convinced him not to bother. This tale dates back to August 1965 ...
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“Morrissey sent me one of his famous letters which I’ve framed on the wall. It just read, ‘Dear Bernard, I’m sorry - I can’t’”: Bernard Butler shares with us the ...

Could this have been the seed of a great lost British indie union between the former Suede-guitarist and ex-Smiths-frontman?
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“If anything, it was tamed down... he wasn't at 100% - that was maybe 60%”: We speak to Future Islands about THAT Letterman performance, the internet's OTT reac…

Over a decade on from exploding into the public consciousness with a performance for the ages, Future Islands reflect on ...
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"This is is 1000% going on every single mix": Baby Audio's SubCulture is a pitch-tracking bass enhancer designed for "massive low-end"

Baby Audio says SubCulture combines three bass enhancement engines with saturation and compression for "powerful low-end that ...
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“It's not just about the money – I just wanted my name on there because it was my work and somebody else took the credit”: Rogét Chahayed on signing away his ...

Having worked on Kendrick Lamar's 2015 magnum opus, only to go uncredited, Chahayed reflects on the lessons the experience taught him about the industry When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
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The Battle of Clevermore: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #14!

It's Friday, and that can only mean one thing - it's Quiz of the Week time again! With the week drawing to a close, we take a look back and pluck out our 10 favourite ...