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Ukrainian singer, composer and producer GANNA won the 2026 Anchor Award at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival on September 18th, emerging from a six-act field after a live performance that moved members of the international jury to tears. The Berlin-based artist, whose full name is Ganna Gryniva, received the festival’s emerging-artist prize…
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Gnarls Barkley are returning to the road for their first North American tour in 18 years, bringing CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse back to the stage after their surprise reunion album Atlanta closed an equally long gap between records. The nine-city To Whom It Still Concerns Tour begins November 5th…
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Tone Capone, the Bay Area producer who turned Luniz’s “I Got 5 On It” into one of the most recognizable records in West Coast hip-hop, has died at 59. Capone, born Anthony Douglas Gilmour, died Saturday, September 12th. Close family members shared news of his death the following day, according…
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Spotify is bringing independent labels into its upcoming fan-made covers and remixes product through a new licensing agreement with Merlin, expanding a generative AI project that had initially been announced with Universal Music Group. The agreement, announced August 4th, gives artists on labels covered by Merlin’s Spotify deal the option…
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Federal ticketing reform moved another step toward the House floor September 16th when the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 36-0 to advance the MAIN Event Ticketing Act, legislation designed to strengthen federal enforcement against ticket bots and attempts to evade online purchase limits. H.R. 2713, formally the Mitigating Automated…
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Suno is facing another proposed class action over its 2025 data breach, adding a consumer-privacy fight to the legal pressure surrounding one of generative music’s largest platforms. Michael Beckham, a Suno user from South Dakota, filed the complaint September 3rd in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.…
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RÜFÜS DU SOL’s Inhale/Exhale World Tour has become the highest-grossing electronic tour in Billboard Boxscore history, closing an 18-month run with $158 million in reported ticket revenue and 1.7 million tickets sold. The Australian trio wrapped the tour September 5th at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, where 43,500 people attended the final…
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Believe and TuneCore will require artists to give explicit consent before their music can be supplied for AI model training, putting two separate approval steps between an independent artist’s catalog and companies such as Suno. The policy became clearer September 16th, when Believe founder and CEO Denis Ladegaillerie detailed how…
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DICE owner Fever has raised $250 million in new equity financing, giving the live-entertainment technology company fresh capital to expand its global ticketing and event-discovery business. EQT led the round, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Point72 Private Investments and other existing shareholders. Fever announced the financing September 17th and called…
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Burna Boy will headline the halftime show at the NFL’s first regular-season game in France, returning to Stade de France on October 25th after making history at the venue last year. The Nigerian artist will perform during the Pittsburgh Steelers-New Orleans Saints game at the 80,000-capacity stadium in Saint-Denis. Kickoff…
