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A song can feel completely secure in the practice room and surprisingly unfamiliar the moment another person sits down to listen. Hands tighten. A lyric that has survived dozens of rehearsals suddenly disappears. The difficult passage goes fine, then an easy entrance gets missed because attention is somewhere else entirely.…
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A piano-roll performance can have the right notes, the right rhythm, and the right sound while still feeling strangely flat. Look underneath the notes and one reason often becomes visible: every velocity bar is sitting in roughly the same neighborhood. Velocity is easy to treat as a miniature volume control.…
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A producer can spend an hour searching for the next sound when the arrangement may need the opposite. Muting a kick for two beats, shortening a sustained chord, leaving the vocal alone after a phrase, or pulling a layer before a transition can change the shape of a track without…
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Sony Music Group has become the first music company to join the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media, bringing its increasingly firm position on AI licensing into a coalition already representing major companies across film, television, journalism, publishing, education and technology. The September 23rd announcement places Sony…
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Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black will return to London’s Roundhouse on October 21st for a one-night-only 20th anniversary concert led by original album producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, with Jorja Smith, FLO, Yebba, Corinne Bailey Rae and Lianne La Havas among the singers taking on Winehouse’s songs. Announced September…
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Taylor Swift isn’t finished with The Life of a Showgirl. Less than 24 hours after revealing “Patient Zero,” she has announced an expanded edition of the album containing four previously unreleased songs written during an unexpected return to the studio with Max Martin and Shellback. The Life of a Showgirl:…
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South Korean prosecutors are asking an appeals court to overturn Kakao founder Kim Beom-su’s acquittal and sentence him to 15 years in prison over alleged stock manipulation during the 2023 battle for control of SM Entertainment. The request came September 23rd at the final hearing before the Seoul High Court.…
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A coordinated anti-piracy operation across five Latin American countries has blocked 317 websites linked to illegal music services, stream ripping and, in dozens of cases, malware distribution. Operation LUMEN was carried out September 22nd and 23rd, with authorities in Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic working together on…
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HYBE is taking its cinema festival worldwide for the first time, turning concert films, two live BTS broadcasts and an interactive K-pop screening into a weeklong theatrical event across more than 60 territories. HYBE CINE FEST 2026 will run from October 24th through October 31st in partnership with event-cinema distributor…
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Robert Palmer’s estate has entered a wide-ranging partnership with Primary Wave Music covering the late singer’s publishing and recording catalogs as well as rights connected to his name, image and likeness. Announced September 23rd, the agreement gives the estate access to Primary Wave’s publishing infrastructure and marketing operation while the…
