Shearwater :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

While his band Shearwater shares its name with a seabird, Jonathan Meiberg’s latest album has us thinking about The Birds – the 1952 short story Daphne du Maurier famously-adapted by Alfred Hitchcock. Meiberg’s forays in ornithology and climate change are well-documented, and his musical projects reflect the feelings of those concerned about the influence and future of humankind. It is not heavy handed sloganeering, but nuanced and beautiful. The Romantic result of deep study and research.

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Your New Collaborator: Train Your Own AI With Your Own Music

For the last few years, musicians have been asking the wrong question about artificial intelligence. Can AI write a song? Of course it can. Can it compose music, imitate a voice, generate an orchestral cue, a techno track, an ambient soundscape, a country song, a film score, a jazz approximation, or something that sounds suspiciously […]

AI Remix and Mashup Platform Hook Scores ‘Landmark’ Universal Music Licensing Agreement — With Attribution and ‘Artist Control’ Factoring Prominently Into the Deal

Following “two years of close collaboration” on artist campaigns, Universal Music Group (UMG) and authorized-remix platform Hook have finalized a “landmark” licensing deal. The major and the self-described “social music app” reached out with word of their agreement this morning. And overall, the pact means Hook users can now remix participating UMG artists’ recordings (with […]

Twitter Architects Reboot Vine With AI Content Banned

As millennials await the recently threatened relaunch of Myspace, tomorrow sees the launch of a new social media service that looks (and sounds) like another defunct social platform. Divine is a video-sharing app where users can post six-second loops, essentially making it a revamp of Vine, which shuttered in 2017. Though it has no affiliation Read More

Publishers Are Leaving Money on the Table in Programmatic CTV

We hear plenty around the need for more transparency, and more signals to be passed through the supply chain, when it comes to CTV advertising. Often, this is framed as primarily a buy-side frustration, where advertisers and agencies don’t have a clear window into what exactly it is they’re buying. But Kieran Greene, founder and Read More

🚀 Boris Brejcha drops cosmic beats at Buenos Aires on October 17! 🔥 #Shorts

Boris Brejcha unleashes his hypnotic high-tech minimal magic at Reflections! Lose yourself in a sonic labyrinth of futuristic beats and ethereal melodies in Buenos Aires. The night pulses with electric energy under neon skies. October 17—ready to transcend reality with us? Tickets here: https://wearebombo.app.link/pRWydkOPL2b Dance beyond dimensions. ✨ #Reflections #BorisBrejcha #BuenosAires #NeonDreams