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CHVRCHES are back with “Roses,” their first original single in three years and the opening release of a new partnership with Futures Music Group, giving Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty a different label home as their fifth album takes shape. The song arrived September 22nd, following 2023 standalone…
September 21, 2026 · Music News
Xdinary Heroes will release their ninth mini album, IMPULSE, on October 12th at 6 p.m. KST, beginning the Korean rock band’s first comeback as a five-member lineup following…
September 22, 2026 · Music Industry
Apple Music is becoming a physical place in London. Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, a purpose-built 600-capacity live venue inside Battersea Power Station that combines an intimate…
July 29, 2026 · Music Industry
Influence Media Partners has agreed to acquire substantially all of Anthem Entertainment’s assets for more than $600 million, adding a sprawling collection of publishing rights, master recordings and…
September 19, 2026 · Music Industry
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…
August 28, 2026 · Music Industry
Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def companies have ended their $18 million royalty lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment less than two months after filing it, telling a…
September 19, 2026 · Music Industry
Migu Music and Huawei Software have won an IDC China Artificial Intelligence Innovation Award for an AI operations system already running inside the Chinese streaming platform’s production environment,…
September 23, 2026 · Music Industry
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…
Performance
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…
September 21, 2026 · Music News
More than 120 artists and musicians came together at Melbourne’s sold-out Rod Laver Arena for a one-night John Farnham tribute that stretched from Celine Dion singing “You’re the…
September 22, 2026 · Music News
Madonna and Charli xcx are bringing two generations of club-minded pop together on “Danceteria Afterhours,” a new version of Madonna’s Confessions II track “Danceteria” produced by longtime collaborator…
