During its second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Spotify again teased the upcoming release of a new product that will allow music fans to leverage AI to make covers and remixes of artists’ music, with the artists’ consent. The company also announced that Merlin, a licensing partner for independent labels and distributors, has now joined Universal
There is no such thing as a universal “song of the summer” anymore, but if you’re into rap music, Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” is a pretty strong contender. Officially released in June, it currently sits at No. 58 in the Billboard Hot 100 and has a music video with 7 million views. Lyrically, it’s got everything
Indeed, Grande has addressed body-shamers in the past. “I’ve been doing this in front of the public, and kind of been a specimen in a petri-dish since I was 16 or 17,” she shared during a December 2024 interview with the web series Oui Oui Baguette. “So I have heard it all. I’ve heard every
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Comes Crashing is almost entirely
Cole’s philosophy is that AI in music is nothing new. “I think AI has existed in music as long as there’s been recorded music,” he says. While the biggest barrier to playing guitar is the time it takes to learn the instrument, it’s the second barrier, writing songs, where he believes AI plays a part.
And he knows he’s not alone in feeling this way, highlighting fellow New England-born singer-songwriters like Anaïs Mitchell, Ray LaMontagne, James Taylor, Grace Potter and Phish. “Making it in New England is hard,” the Busyhead Project founder noted. “There’s not a lot of access to live music, depending on where you’re from. You can be