Authentic Brands Group and other owners of Elvis Presley’s catalogue filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday. They want about $41.1m from the company behind Claude, or $150,000 for each of 274 songs. Billboard first reported the suit. The…
In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like “The Monster Mash” and John Carpenter’s “Halloween Theme.” Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker’s The Drift. This 2006 album from the singer-songwriter is truly upsetting. On it, Walker explores […]
Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B […]
Bose bought Skullcandy on Wednesday, the company said in a statement. The seller was a fund managed by Mill Road Capital Management, a private investment firm in Connecticut. Skullcandy joins McIntosh and Sonus faber in Bose’s group of audio brands. Sk…
If you’ve been feeling nostalgic for your old iPod, you can head over to Apple Music’s 404 page to listen to music on a virtual re-creation of the first-generation iPod. The hidden iPod was spotted by users on social media on Friday. It’s appropriately stocked with music from the early 2000s, like Coldplay’s “Viva La […]
Teenage Engineering is branching out into instrument amps with the previously leaked EP-35, a multi-input, multi-instrument, battery-powered amp with built-in effects. The back of the unit has a line-in port, as well as a 1/4-inch guitar input and an XLR input for mics, including mics that require phantom power. You can also stream audio to […]
Spotify told investors its roll out of QR code verification to ensure Family Plan members live in the same household is not a “crackdown,” just a routine improvement.
Universal Music Group (UMG) will license music from its artists and songwriters to TYGER. The service uses AI to make songs follow the action in a video game as people play. The two companies announced the deal today, with UMG the first major music com…
Can the right soundtrack make food more enjoyable? A new study suggests music can influence how your brain processes taste.
Spotify ended the third quarter with 306 million paying subscribers, up 9% from a year earlier, according to its third-quarter update, published on Thursday. Monthly active users rose 11% to 788 million. Revenue grew 16% to €4.97 billion, or 14% at con…