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UK-born Reactional Music has signed what it says is a far-reaching agreement with UK-based house music company Defected Records “to bring dance music to games”. Reactional has developed patented technology that allows real-time personalization of soundtracks and music during gameplay. Under the new partnership, Defected has licensed the masters for a selection of tracks from its wider […]

Global artist management company Three Six Zero has entered into a partnership with Something In Common, a management and consulting agency founded by veteran music executive Caron Veazey. As part of the partnership, Veazey will join Three Six Zero’s expanding global management and entertainment partnership division as a Partner, according to a press release issued on Friday

Abbey Road Studios, the iconic London-based recording facility, has unveiled the dates and speaker lineup for its third Abbey Road Amplify event. The event, which features workshops and panels, is for young artists, producers, composers and creatives who are looking to enter the music industry. This year’s event will run from November 10 to 11. Last year’s Amplify ran

Music industry veteran Mike Caren is joining AI and metaverse tech startup Futureverse as a founding partner of JEN, the company’s text-to-music AI generator. The move is part of Futureverse’s strategy to develop AI music generators with the input of music industry insiders. According to the company, Caren, at JEN, Caren will lead music industry

Amazon-owned music streaming service Amazon Music has launched a redesigned version of its ‘Amazon Music for Artists’ website. Amazon Music for Artists is accessible by artists and their teams (including managers, labels, and distributors) who have content delivered to the Amazon Music platform. The platform, which features real-time data and analytics, is described as “a one-stop shop to

More than 60 years after they released their first album, The Beatles are releasing a new song – thanks to the wonders of AI. The Beatles’ multimedia company, Apple Corps Ltd., along with Capitol Records and Universal Music Enterprises, announced on Thursday (October 26) that the “last Beatles song,” titled Now and Then, will be officially released on November 2. The Beatles’

I must be getting old. Know how I know? Friends of mine don’t send me new music these days. They just send me viral videos. Today so far, I’ve snickered, mesmerized, ooh, perhaps 31 times at Democracy Manifest Man. The other video link I’ve received? Robert Plant performing Stairway To Heaven, for the first time in 16 years, in the relatively

In recent weeks, the news cycle of the music business has seemed a little sluggish, or at least a little subdued. If we were waiting for some major revelations to blow away the cobwebs, the past few days have delivered with gusto. We’ve seen quarterly earnings results from – to name but three titans of

The A&R Awards has another new partner for the 2023 iteration of the increasingly popular event, with PRS For Music sponsoring the always hard-fought Pop category. Now just 11 days away, the event will take place at London’s Grand Connaught Rooms, on the evening of Tuesday November 7th. Across 17 categories, the most successful UK execs, managers,