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Google's AI Overviews confidently insist that MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys — even though he's never been nominated for one on his own.

Google’s AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Employees Say It’s Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

We regret to inform you that Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has dropped an acoustic cover of "Get Low" with T-Pain.

Mark Zuckerberg Just Released a Cover of Lil Jon’s “Get Low” and Yes, He Says the Line About Balls

By Noor Al-Sibai

For perhaps the first time ever, a robot played a cello live on stage during a performance by a symphony orchestra.

Robot Plays Cello With Live Orchestra

By Victor Tangermann

As part of his purported comeback, Eminem has chosen to have an AI hologram of him from his "Slim Shady" era stage a bogus interview.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI That De-Ages Eminem Into Slim Shady Is Astonishingly Bad

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has sent a hip-hop song to space for the very first time and chosen the ineffable Missy Elliott to do the honors.

NASA Sends Missy Elliott Song to Her Favorite Planet, Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

After raising such a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, Drake is now in hot water for doing the same to Tupac.

Artificial Intelligence

Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice

By Noor Al-Sibai

People with borderline personality disorder prefer music that's reflective and complex versus loud, raucous music.

Health & Medicine

People With Borderline Personality Disorder Prefer These Head-Scratching Types of Music

By Sharon Adarlo

Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed's widow and longtime collaborator, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner for years.

Artificial Intelligence

Lou Reed’s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, “Sadly Addicted” to Talking to It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some TikTok creators and users are upset that videos are silent ever since Universal Music Group pulled its artists from the platform.

TikTok in Shambles Now That Videos Can’t Use Popular Music

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk will not be $55.8 billion richer anytime soon — and it wouldn't have happened without a ticked off metal band drummer.

Heavy Metal Drummer Cost Elon Musk $55.8 Billion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Universal Music Group is letting its contract with TikTok expire over concerns about AI, safety, and artist compensation.

Artificial Intelligence

TikTok Facing Huge Crisis as It Loses Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake Over Its AI Features

By Noor Al-Sibai

A forthcoming Elvis hologram tour is the latest in a string of holographic AI resurrections that fail to deal with their subjects' darkness.

Alleged Groomer to Get the AI Hologram Treatment

By Noor Al-Sibai

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole was best known for his cover of Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" — but now, AI has gotten to him, too.

The Top Google Image for Israel Kamakawiwo’ole Is AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tattoos of Spotify codes don't always hold up after a few years of natural wear and tear, as many music fans are beginning to discover.

Music Fans Horrified When Their Spotify Tattoos Stop Scanning

By Frank Landymore

More than 50 years after their breakup, The Beatles have released their final song — and used AI to bring John Lennon's voice back to life.

Artificial Intelligence

The Beatles Just Released Their Final Song That Resurrects John Lennon’s Voice With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says he will probably keep touring as a hologram after he does finally pass on.

Virtual Reality

Keith Richards Says He’ll Probably Keep Touring After He’s Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

After a decade of research, scientists have managed to recreate a song from brain recordings with the help of AI.

Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone’s Brain Waves. Here’s What It Sounds Like.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sphere Entertainment has started testing its $2 billion dollar, orb-shaped, and LED-laden music venue in Las Vegas.

Robots and Machines

Enormous $2 Billion LED Orb in Las Vegas Looks Absolutely Deranged

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rage Against the Machine is living up to its name by signing a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition technology.

Facial recognition

Rage Against the Machine Refuses to Play Venues With Facial Recognition

By Noor Al-Sibai

An LA-based artist and producer created the first official and credited song that features Grimes' AI-cloned vocals called "GrimesAI."

Grimes Calls First Official Song Made by AI-Cloning Her Voice a “Masterpiece”

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview, Daft Punk co-founder Thomas Bangalter admitted that concerns about artificial intelligence led to the timing of the band's breakup.

Artificial Intelligence

Daft Punk Says They Broke Up Partially Over Fear of AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Record Labels Terrified by Rise of AI Music Generators

By Victor Tangermann

AI-powered music generators are here — and it looks like they're gunning for a strong position in the content-creation economy.

Artificial Intelligence

AI That Generates Music from Prompts Should Probably Scare Musicians

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many kids — and their parents — have stumbled on a fascinating discovery: that yelling “poop” at their Alexa devices made a certain song play.

Artificial Intelligence

Genius Musicians Are Making Songs That Play When Children Yell “Poop” at Alexa

By Noor Al-Sibai

The self-appointed Queen of Rap is back and has a new texting friend to boot.

Jeff Bezos Name-Checked by Nicki Minaj in New Song

By Noor Al-Sibai

Snoop Dogg's decision to bring Death Row records into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has chagrined a lot of his fans.

Fans Furious With Snoop Dogg for Pulling Records Off Streaming for NFT Purposes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kanye West told fans via Instagram yesterday that his new album Donda 2 will only be available via something called a Stem Player.

Kanye West Says His Next Album Will Only Be Available on a Strange, Orb-Shaped Device

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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MIT scientists converted the structure and construction of spider webs into odd music which they hope could lead to a form of human-spider communications.

MIT Researchers Release Music Made by Spiders

By Dan Robitzski

AI tech composed a Britney Spears song in the style of Frank Sinatra. It was struck down by copyright claims, launching an unprecedented legal case.

A Bot Made Frank Sinatra Cover Britney Spears. YouTube Removed It Over Copyright Claims.

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, The Flaming Lips played a show where every member of the audience was safely sealed away inside a plastic bubble.

Band Plays Show With Each Audience Member Inside a Plastic Bubble

By Dan Robitzski

The New York Department of Health is investigating a recent Chainsmokers concert due to potentially coronavirus spread among a packed crowd.

Officials Are Investigating The Chainsmokers for Spreading the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.

Science & Energy

This Music Made by Stars Is Actually Extremely Beautiful

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.

Artificial Intelligence

Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, something happens during a musical performance: the brain activity of listeners synchronizes with that of the musician.

New Research: Listeners Synchronize Brain Activity With Musicians

By Jon Christian

Touring musicians have a large carbon footprint, the New Yorker writes, so eco-conscious bands are working to lower their environmental impact.

Touring Musicians Are Brutal on the Environment

By Natalie Coleman

This German a way to hack his prosthetic arm so that it could control electronic musical instruments.

Prosthetics and Devices

This Guy Hacked His Prosthetic Arm to Control Musical Instruments

By Jon Christian

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk just dropped a generic-sounding EDM song on SoundCloud. Seriously. No, we're not making this up.

Elon Musk Just Dropped a Heavily Auto-Tuned Song on SoundCloud

By Victor Tangermann

Virtual pop star Hatsune Miku will be performing at the 2020 Coachella Music Festival, sharing the stage with some of the biggest artists alive.

Virtual Music Star Hatsune Miku to Perform at Coachella

By Kristin Houser

A group is developing an AI to finished Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th symphony, which the composer was writing when he died in 1827.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI Is Completing Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphony

By Kristin Houser

During the segment Grimes, who studied neuroscience before pursuing her music career, opined that humanity is at the "end of art, human art."

Artificial Intelligence

Grimes: Humanity Is At The “End of Art, Human Art”

By Tag Hartman-Simkins

The latest from music coding group Dadabots is a neural net trained on Cannibal Corpse music and lyrics that writes endless metal about killing humans.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained a Neural Net Using a Cannibal Corpse Album

By Dan Robitzski

Rapper Azealia Banks has written a song about an Elon Musk-like character who invents a brain interface — and is then executed via it.

Azealia Banks Reveals Song About Publicly Executing Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

A newly announced campaign calls on Ticketmaster to end its use of facial recognition tech to scan fans' faces at concerts.

Artificial Intelligence

Musicians Don’t Want Ticketmaster Scanning Your Face at Concerts

By Kristin Houser

Now there's an AI assistant to help DJs pick songs for their sets in real time. It's unclear what, exactly, is left for the DJ to do.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Were Worried DJs Were Working Too Hard, This Idiotic AI Literally Picks Songs for Them

By Dan Robitzski

Sony researchers have created an AI drummer that can listen to a song and produce a "musically plausible" kick drum beat for it.

Artificial Intelligence

Sony’s New AI Drummer Could Write Beats for Your Band

By Kristin Houser

Billionaire VC Vinod Khosla predicts that music as we know it will be gone in ten years, replaced by personalized AI-generated soundtracks.

Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire: Future Music Will Be AI-Generated to Match Our Moods

By Dan Robitzski

On August 13, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will make history by delivering the first ever DJ set from space for promoters BigCityBeats.

ISS Astronaut Will Deliver First DJ Set From Space

By Kristin Houser

A hacker allegedly stole an entire MiniDisc archive and demanded a ransom. Radiohead called the bluff and put the archive of demos on sale for charity.

Hackers Stole Old Radiohead Demos — Then Got Owned

By Victor Tangermann

Jai Paul is back with an artificial intelligence he calls an "infinite playback," which produces new takes on his classic track "Jasmine" in perpetuity.

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Generates New Remixes of Jai Paul… Forever

By Jon Christian

A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal — and livestreaming it.

Artificial Intelligence

Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network

By Jon Christian

The legal industry isn't ready for AI-generated music, leading to all sorts of new questions about copyrights in the age of creative machines.

Artificial Intelligence

Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf*ck”

By Kristin Houser

The emissions produced by streaming music far exceed the environmental cost of listening to music via physical mediums, according to a new study.

Science & Energy

Here’s How Streaming Music Is Killing the Planet

By Kristin Houser

A new trend in San Francisco's Silicon Valley involves DJs who perform electronic music by coding their sets in real time.

These DJs Are Making Music By Coding on a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

Thousands of Chinese Fans Paid to See a Virtual Hologram Singer

Virtual Reality

Thousands of Chinese Fans Paid to See a Virtual Hologram Singer

By Victor Tangermann

The wildly popular video game "Fortnite" made history yesterday with a live show by EDM artist Marshmello that reportedly drew millions of viewers.

Live Concert Inside “Fortnite” Drew More Viewers Than Woodstock

By Jon Christian

Holograms Are Resurrecting Dead Musicians, Raising Legal Questions

Holograms Are Resurrecting Dead Musicians, Raising Legal Questions

By Jon Christian

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.

Google Trained a Neural Net to Write Cringey Song Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Watch the Boston Dynamics Robodog Twerk and Moonwalk to “Uptown Funk”

Boston Dynamics

Watch the Boston Dynamics Robodog Twerk and Moonwalk to “Uptown Funk”

By Kristin Houser

A high-tech suit vibrates to let users feel music — a new way for everyone to experience sound, according to its creators, but especially for deaf people.

Prosthetics and Devices

Make Music A Full Body Experience With A “Vibro-Tactile” Suit

By Jon Christian

Rappers Are Making Tesla Sexy, Which Might Be Good For the Planet

Rappers Are Making Tesla Sexy, Which Might Be Good For the Planet

By Alexandra Ossola