Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes…
Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?
Two minutes and thirty seconds into the title track of Rachika Nayar’s Heaven Come Crashing, an absolutely massive drum and bass beat drops. As a fan of Nayar’s debut record Our Hands Against The Dusk, it caught me off guard. That album has no percussion on it at all. Heaven Come Crashing is almost entirely […]
Fender CEO Edward “Bud” Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already raging fire of bad PR following the company pissing off […]
Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he’s recently found solo success with the track “Rubberz,” which has climbed to number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. Almost immediately, though, questions were raised about the song’s origins, with many speculating that it was largely, […]
Several record labels, including the big three – Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group – have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn’t be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry […]
The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions on AI-generated music. German court has ruled that Suno, one of the world’s most popular AI m…
It really whips the llama’s ass, and apparently it is not done yet. Winamp, the music player millions of us loaded up before Spotify existed, is planning another comeback. This time it has real streaming behind it. Winamp and Deezer announced a partner…
Winamp is partnering with Deezer to bring music streaming to its next-generation player, arriving in the first half of 2027, while keeping local libraries, podcasts, and radio intact.
When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon – nonfiction tomes that he […]