A new music startup called Songfinch recently closed its first round of seed funding with over $2 million raised from investors. Notably, a number of high profile musicians have invested in the startup, including The Weeknd, Quincy Jones, and Doja Cat. Led by Corazon Capital, the seeding round looked to
For a moment, let’s consider the pressures that the music industry can place on a rising artist: the push to create (and be) something totally new and unique that still somehow appeals to the mass public. Anyone who falls flat can disappear into the void: the experimental artists who focus
Universal Music plans to launch an unrecouped advances program for legacy artists to receive royalties without having recouped their initial advance payments. Universal is the last of the major three labels to unveil this type of plan, with Sony and Warner having already laid out similar schemes. Plans for Universal’s
Black Coffee made history at the 2022 Grammy Awards last night after winning the Best Dance / Electronic Music Album category, becoming the first African DJ to win the category and the first African DJ to win a Grammy in history. Black Coffee won for his seventh studio album, Subconsciously
American DJ and producer DVS1 (Zak Khutoretsky) has launched software that aims to bridge the gap between DJ and producer income. It’s long been the case that DJ’s profit far more from the music that they play than the producers who make it. Recognising this gap, DVS1 developed Aslice. The
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Downtempo pop trio GIVVEN have recently released their latest EP, Losing Colours which was written and recorded around the globe and features three cinematic videos filmed in Iceland. Earlier this month, we sat down for an exclusive interview with the band, in which we discussed the title track of the
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Grimes has admitted to being the one responsible for hacking popular indie pop culture and satire blog Hipster Runoff nearly a decade ago. In 2012, the blog infamously went down, with owner and founder Carles reporting that his “server disk has crashed and remote backups were sabotaged,” believing foul play
Spotify has announced it will be suspending its services in Russia due to the country’s censorship laws. This follows Spotify’s decision to close its offices in Russia earlier this year following Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine. The streaming service also suspended access to premium accounts in the country. According to
Canadian electronic music band Keys N Krates have been nominated for Best Dance Record at the 2022 Libera Awards for their album, Original Classic. Presented by EDM.com, other nominees in the category include Disclosure and Dawn Richard. Keys N Krates shared Original Classic last year, an expansive visual album project
A shooting happened in Austin, Texas in the early hours on Sunday morning, the last day of this year’s SXSW Festival. Both Variety and Deadline reported that four people were injured, with authorities responding to shots fired in the city’s entertainment district. It has been confirmed that the shooting took
