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TikTok is limiting the number of songs that users can post on its app, an experiment to assess how much they value music in their videos. Content creators won’t be able to use certain songs, the company said in a statement. The test is occurring with a subset of TikTok’s users in Australia. “This will […]
Google researchers have introduced MusicLM, an AI model that can generate high-fidelity music from text. MusicLM creates music at a constant 24 kHz throughout a number of minutes by modeling the conditional music generating process as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling problem. According to the research paper, MusicLM was trained on a dataset of 280,000 hours […]
“A license to use the original underlying musical composition does not authorise the stealing of the artist’s voice in the original recording.” Popstar Rick Astley is suing rapper Yung Gravy for allegedly violating his right of publicity, false endorsement and unfair competition for “flagrantly” impersonating his vocal lines in his song. According to Billboard, Yung […]
Supreme portability and an open-source operating system may make this a must-buy for live performers Watch out, Novation – music technology newcomer 203 has announced the Matrix MIDI grid controller, alongside an advanced model, Matrix Pro, that boast “extreme portability” and an open-source operating system. Designed as a composition, live performance and light show tool, […]
We asked the internet’s hottest AI chatbot how it could help with music-making tasks and here’s what it came up with. No, this article wasn’t generated by ChatGPT. However, we did ask the complex AI bot about five ways it could help with music-making tasks and this was what it came up with. What is […]
As expected, Justin Bieber has sold his music rights to Blackstone-backed Hipgnosis Songs Capital for north of $200 million, the company has announced. News of the impending deal, which had been rumored for weeks, was widely reported last month. The deal includes Bieber’s shares of his publishing and recorded-music catalog, Bieber’s interest in his publishing […]
What’s better than a sesh with the perfect playlist? Not much. We give props to the music junkies, the playlist curators, and those who ensure each sesh is backed with bang-up tunes. Fortunately for you, we’re tuning in to the best songs on the charts week by week to keep your sesh playlist updated. If […]
In recent years, many music superstars have sold the rights to their hits for princely sums. Bambos Eracleous, Partner, Sports, Media and Gaming charts the rise of back catalogues as an asset class. Here’s a fun fact. De La Soul’s classic 1989 album ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ features more than 70 samples. Fun fact […]
From overlooked hip-hop and Spanish-language music of all genres to Rob Sheffield’s picks for indie and more, here’s our rundown of 2022 albums it’s not too late to catch up on ON THE NEW episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we run down some of the best Spanish-language, indie-rock, and hip-hop you may have missed […]
Nick Cave has condemned a song designed and directed by ChatGPT. But new technology should be embraced, not feared Nick Cave performing at Melbourne’s Palais Theatre, 30 November 2022. The singer-songwriter described an AI-written song as ‘a replication, a kind of burlesque’. Photograph: Richard Nicholson/REX/Shutterstock Earlier this week, a fan called Mark sent, for reasons […]
