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AI in music · 31 stories, +28 vs last week
AI in music: 31 stories in seven days, +28 on the week before.
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Ultimate GuitarGuitarsMetallica's James Hetfield Says No Guitar Player Inspired Him Like Tony Iommi: 'He Is The Riff Lord' [News] Music News : "He is the one that has inspired me the most out of any guitar player for my rhythm guitar playing and songwriting."
Music Business WorldwideIndustryKhosla Ventures-backed AI music company GRAI acquires social music platform Hangout Hangout launched in November 2024 with a catalog of over 100 million tracks, licensed from Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Merlin.…
GearnewsGearLEWITT LW6 – Review: The Best Wireless Studio Headphones of 2026? LEWITT is launching its first pair of headphones, and it’s coming out strong. The LW6 is designed to be the world’s first wireless headphone built for professional studio work, including mixing…
Music AllyIndustrySuno hits back at ‘fundamentally flawed’ UMG and Sony Music claims We reported yesterday on Universal Music Group and Sony Music’s new legal complaint against Suno, with a filing that attacked its latest v6 models as “the fruit of the same poisoned tree”.
Music AllyIndustrySnapchat has a new GenAI-powered ‘Chat to Song’ feature Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral.
HypebotIndustryMUTEK Elevates Live Electronic Music Performance Yet Again [PHOTOS] It can be difficult to determine what “live” means in electronic music. The instruments may be invisible.
Guitar.comGuitars“One pickup. One knob. One mission: Pure rock”: Epiphone revives Joan Jett’s signature Olympic Special Epiphone has partnered with rock legend Joan Jett on a new version of her signature Olympic Special. Landing in time for the 45th anniversary celebrations of her first two albums with the…
DJ MagLive & DJAI ‘artists’ set to perform ‘live’ at first AI Music Awards in Los Angeles The creators behind each AI “artist” will be “directing the stage”, according to organisers SIQA
Music Business WorldwideIndustryVinyl counterfeiter who made $3.6M from fake Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar records jailed for 3.5 years in the UK Rehan Ahmed generated £2.7M (USD $3.6M) from counterfeit vinyl pressed at a west London plant, in a case referred to police by the BPI. Source
Music Business WorldwideIndustryUK-based avatar concert producer Unit1 Studio raises $20M led by Balderton Capital The fundraise lands alongside what Unit1 calls a world first: the transfer of an avatar concert production from one venue to another. Source
MusicRadarGearA criminal record: The man behind the UK’s biggest fake vinyl factory goes down for three and a half years The man who ran Britain’s biggest counterfeit vinyl operation has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Over the last 10 years, Rehan Ahmed built up an impressive empire.
MusicRadarGearEpiphone to unveil replica of Eric Clapton’s 1964 ES-335TDC at Crossroads Guitar Festival 2026 Epiphone has some very good news for fans of Eric Clapton ; there is a new signature guitar on its way, and it is a replica of the 1964 ES-335TDC that he played during the latter days of Cream , most…
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