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HypebotIndustrySpotify Adds Genius Video Series ‘Open Mic’ and ‘Verified’ Spotify is taking another calculated step beyond audio by turning its app into a destination for original video content. In an expanded partnership with online music community and database Genius , the streaming giant is

September 15

HypebotIndustryAFM Union Battles UMG and Warner Over AI Licensing Payouts The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has filed a brief opposing efforts by Universal Music Group (UMG) , Warner Records , and Atlantic Recording Corp. to dismiss its federal lawsuit. The union alleges the major lab

September 15

HypebotIndustryCould Oprah’s New Sphere Show Become a National Tour? “Oprah Winfrey’s AHA” will debut at Sphere in Las Vegas for four performances from April 2 through 4, 2027. The two-hour production will combine music, poetry, storytelling, visual art, and Sphere&#x

September 14

HypebotIndustryThe Band That Got Banned for Being Too Loud: A Brief History of Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur Jr. has released its 13th studio album, There Near , and extended their supporting North American tour into 2027. More surprising than another tour from a band that has spent four decades on the road, however, m

September 14

XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.