Another prominent video game music YouTuber has chosen to remove all their Nintendo music after allegedly receiving over 500 copyright claims from the company. DeoxysPrime, a Canadian user who uploads video game soundtracks and has over 165,000 subscribers, announced on Tuesday that they’ll be removing all Nintendo music from their […]
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Ambient music legend Midori Takada: ‘In Japan, artists keep going right into old age’ | Music
The sight of Midori Takada whiplashing between drums, cymbals and marimba is something few observers forget. She is a mesmerising performer of great physical intensity. So her billing as a “70-year-old percussionist” ahead of a performance at Melbourne’s Rising festival – a bit like calling Paul McCartney an 80-year-old guitarist […]
Will AI Take the Pleasure Out of Music?
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But on a recent weekday afternoon, when I Zoomed with co-founder and chief composer Dmitry Evgrafov, he was at home in Berlin, wearing not a lab coat but what looked like a very plush, comfortable robe. Where Endel’s marketing stresses hard numbers, Evgrafov came across more like a philosophical ambient […]
Guide to 10 must-see Chicago summer 2022 music events
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After a two-year delay and some unsuccessful starts, summer music in the city is back. With an abundance of new, locally created music festivals and performances by some of the city’s brightest acts, it’s never been a better time to check out music in the city. Here’s a guide to […]
Blackpink’s Lisa on Her New Music, Childhood in Thailand, Going Solo
Lalisa Manobal was 14 when her life changed in an instant. In 2010, she attended an audition for YG Entertainment in her native Thailand — and became the only person to get accepted among 4,000 aspiring trainees. Soon after, she moved to Seoul, alone, without knowing a word of Korean […]
SNL’s Best (And Worst) Musical Guests From The 2021-22 Season : NPR
Katy Perry. NBC/Will Heath/NBC hide caption toggle caption NBC/Will Heath/NBC Katy Perry. NBC/Will Heath/NBC Saturday Night Live is designed to be chaotic: Any time you take a host who may or may not possess a sense of humor, pair that person up with a mixed bag of comedy professionals and […]
The Music Metaverse Is (Almost) Ready to Conquer the World
Turning Frank Ocean or Taylor Swift into an infinite jukebox may be difficult from a licensing perspective, especially in an era when stars have more control than ever over their public images and narratives. Still, it seems likely that some app or another will find a way to permanently bring […]
You’ve Never Heard Anything Quite Like Joe Rainey’s Avant-Garde Pow Wow Music
Niineta—the title means “Just Me” in Ojibwe—is the result of the two musicians’ extended collaboration. It is a bold, intense listen, by turns brooding and aggressive. Broder’s beats shift between stormy ambient textures and concussive rhythmic passages, playing off pow wow samples from Rainey’s extensive archive. Rainey’s voice—singing in vocables, […]
Two Musicians Accuse Ezra Miller of Stealing Their Music
When Ezra Miller hit up music producer Oliver Ignatius to help them work on a new musical project in February, Ignatius wasn’t immediately enticed. After all, he had a bunch of sessions booked for the next few months at his Holy Fang Studios in New York. But he knew Miller since […]
Doja Cat Wasn’t Joking About Wanting To Quit Music
“It wasn’t a joke, not to me at the time.” Doja Cat says she was serious about wanting to quit music earlier this year — at least she was in the moment. Frazer Harrison / Getty Images for The Recording Academy In March, Doja posted a series of tweets about […]