Artist Opinion

The Strokes frontman sang on the demo, which was released as part of the Random Access Memories 10th Anniversary Edition Julian Casablancas of The Strokes has shared that he originally suggested Stevie Wonder should have sang on Daft Punk’s Infinity Repeating, which was made as a demo in 2013. Daft Punk celebrated the 10th anniversary […]

He recalls being impressed when his daughter showed him how an AI bot created a song in the style of Pet Shop Boys. Neil Tennant, one half of synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, has shared his belief that AI could be a useful tool for songwriters. Pet Shop Boys, which Tennant formed with Chris Lowe, […]

The rapper reposted the cover of C-Murder’s Down 4 My N’s which mimicked Jackson’s voice Snoop Dogg has responded to an AI version of C-Murder single Down 4 My N’s which features a Michael Jackson-imitating vocal part. Reposted to Instagram, the 51-year-old added “This sh*t is outta hand” over the video with the caption, “Wow”. […]

It was one of the first synthesizers he ever bought. Tame Impala has named the Sequential Circuits Pro One as one of his favourite synths after falling in love with it at a friend’s studio. In a new interview with Synth History, the Australian star, real name is Kevin Parker, revealed he immediately bought one […]

Grimes will address music technology, AI and the metaverse in her speech at the event. Electronic artist Grimes is set to present a Keynote speech on AI in music at the International Music Summit in Ibiza this month (April). Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher), will be closing the conference with a presentation sharing […]

The duo just dropped an eight-minute recording of the three working together on the track called The Writing of Fragments of Time. Dance music producer, songwriter and singer Todd Edwards has branded his collaboration with Daft Punk for their 2013 song Fragments In Time as “life-changing”. Speaking in the latest The Zane Lowe Show podcast […]

The DJ-turned-digital-entrepreneur has a gift for seeing the potential in strange things. Now, he’s making a case for navigating the wild west of Web3. Most people heard noise. Steve Aoki heard music. It was just, in his words, “intentionally abrasive” music. What’s the difference between noise and intentionally abrasive? This was back in the 1990s, […]

Last year, the electronic producer/digital artist negotiated the option to use his own single as part of a non-fungible token or in a Web3-related project later on. I was lucky enough to write an NFT clause into an indie single deal of mine back in February 2021, via the Australian label Club Sweat [a subsidiary […]

In latest episode of Behind The Drop, NFTNow spoke with rapper, singer, and songwriter Iann Dior about his debut NFT project: the iann dior: 1212 collection. Launched in partnership with green NFT platform OneOf in June 2022, the collection consisted of 1,212 animated NFT avatars depicting the Sick and Tired singer in various interpretations, adapted to resemble Tim Burton’s take on […]