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The MLC will begin market-share distributions of remaining unmatched and unclaimed streaming royalties in April 2027. Here is what independent songwriters should do before then.
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Square Nine Capital has refinanced Beatport’s existing credit facility and provided additional capital as the DJ platform keeps expanding…
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My Block Records settled its royalty-accounting dispute with SRG/ILS only 15 days after filing a lawsuit involving three albums…
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The Recording Academy will retain Best Asian Pop Music Performance for the 2027 Grammys even as BTS and Stray…
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Live Nation is backing Creator Nation, a new company built to acquire and scale creator-management businesses across content, commerce,…
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A federal appeals court ruled that ROSS Intelligence could not rely on fair use for copied Westlaw headnotes used…
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Sony Music says it has now targeted more than 260,000 AI-generated deepfake tracks for removal, turning artist identity protection…
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Liz Harris says Grouper’s “Poison Tree” reached millions of streams through an unauthorized upload. The case exposes a catalog-control…
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Miami duo B0YG1RL release a 13-track self-titled album through Surf Gang Records, bringing Caribbean rhythms, electronic experimentation and a…
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Dominican electronic artist Boundary returns with PROXIMA CENTAURI, an eight-track project connecting experimental electronics with a science-fiction frame.
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Liz Harris, Jed Bindeman and Scott Simmons revive Helen for Linda’s Head, the dream-pop trio’s first album since 2015’s…
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Vanishing Twin’s Archives turns remote recording fragments into a collaborative collage after geography separated the trio between France and…
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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith rejects the ambient label on RUIN: It’s Not Just Music, a nine-track electronic record built around…
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Vermont songwriter Lily Seabird’s Lightspheres on Their Way moves through mortality, transition and renewal with a broader folk-rock palette.
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Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano uses modular synthesizers, voice and an imagined distant planet to explore expression, ecology and emotional…
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Detroit songwriter Stef Chura returns after seven years with Dancing Alone on the Concrete, recorded largely at Chase Park…
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Indianapolis five-piece Wishy return with Nature’s Pill, a more collaborative second album recorded partly live and released through Winspear.
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Greg Freeman expands his songwriting world on All Set the Bone, a 13-song third album produced by John Congleton…
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Charlotte’s Confluence expands for 2026 with a three-day festival, more than 45 artists and practical industry sessions for independent…
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Terry Borderline and Gasoline Monk release No AI Was Used through Monk’s Temple Records, turning an automated distribution dispute…
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Universal Music Group has sued DistroKid over alleged copyright infringement and deceptive trade practices, putting AI-generated music, platform accountability…
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Mystic Tea Party release “AIYO DAEA,” the final single before debut album Slipstream, pushing their self-produced sound toward breakbeats…
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Oliver Symons has released “Wake Up” through Los Angeles label Maison Arts, opening a new chapter for the Belgian…
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Chilean producer Rhys Fog turns stuttering voices, broken timing and machine instability into a compositional system on the four-track…
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