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Death Cab for Cutie are extending the I Built You a Tower era into 2027 with a new North American tour, adding a spring run that includes two nights each in Atlanta and Boston and an April stop at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The newly announced dates begin…
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…
July 21, 2026 · Music Industry
Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second federal copyright lawsuit against AI music company Udio, alleging the service copied 30,117 Sony-controlled sound recordings to train its generative music…
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 18, 2026 · Music News
Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour has lost its remaining scheduled opening acts after Macklemore was removed from upcoming dates over pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage, turning a dispute over…
September 18, 2026 · Music Industry
Notes.fm has raised $5 million as the music-fintech startup expands from finding missing artist royalties into distributing new releases itself. The move puts Notes earlier in the life…
September 21, 2026 · Music News
Mariah Carey is bringing her 2026 Christmastime tour to the UK for three arena shows in Birmingham, London and Manchester, extending a holiday concert business built around one…
September 23, 2026 · Music Industry
AI music company GRAI has acquired Hangout, the social listening platform built around the idea that discovering music through another person can be more interesting than letting an…
September 19, 2026 · Music Industry
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,…
August 4, 2026 · Music Industry
Spotify has reached 300 million Premium subscribers, hitting a new scale for paid audio streaming as subscriber growth, revenue and profitability all increased during the second quarter of…
September 18, 2026 · Music News
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter behind the 1996 hit “Barely Breathing” who later became the Tony-winning composer of Spring Awakening, died Thursday in Manhattan. He was 56. His mother,…
