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There’s a certain kind of dance music that feels less concerned with chasing the moment and more interested in creating one. Austin-based DJ, producer, and lifelong vinyl obsessive Nathan Stewart has spent years cultivating exactly that space, blending deep house, slo-mo disco, funk, acid, and Balearic influences into a sound that feels both deeply rooted […]

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Budapest is getting a new open-air dance venue on Friday, September 18, and Aura Bay Open Air is not easing into the calendar quietly. The launch event brings HUGEL to Óbudai Island for his first standalone headline show in Hungary, placing one of the biggest names in Afro Latin house inside a brand-new outdoor concept […]

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UNTER STRØM’s Between Forms feels like a project title that actually describes the music. Across the EP, Alex Gonzales and John Kunkel keep pulling the listener between different states: club pressure and headphone detail, mechanical rhythm and melodic lift, industrial edge and something more open at the center. That is the part that makes the […]

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Photography Credit Throughout: Timo Wagner Mystigrix (@its_mystigrix) is thinking about house music less as a personal lane and more as a shared ecosystem. The Berlin-based DJ, producer, and Flirt Records founder is not only putting out music under his own name. He is using the label, events, and his monthly RBL radio show as ways […]

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K-pop agency SM and China’s Tencent Music unite to launch a joint venture to develop a new Chinese idol group and manage SM artists in Greater China. South Korean agency SM Entertainment has announced a joint venture with Tencent Music Entertainment Group in China with plans to develop a new idol group focused on the […]

Cassandra Wilson, a Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer, has passed away in Jackson, Mississippi, at age 70. Two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter, and producer Cassandra Wilson passed away on Wednesday, September 2, in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. She was 70. Her manager for 20 years, Robert Torre, broke the news in a […]

When it rains, it pours: SOCAN has filed a Suno copyright lawsuit of its own, accusing the platform of unlawfully training on protected works and then generating infringing outputs. SOCAN submitted the straightforward complaint to Canada’s Federal Court today, moments after activist artist David Lowery as well as Latin label Gerencia 360 fired off distinct […]

With a number of AI copyright battles unfolding – and with billions riding on the all-important fair use question – the Justice Department has doubled down on its position that training LLMs on protected text constitutes fair use. The DOJ reiterated its training stance yesterday, in a filing submitted as part of an ongoing infringement […]

Pay attention. It’s your music and they handle a lot. I have been actively looking for a new music distributor, which is one of those jobs that sounds simple until you actually start doing it. I compared services, read terms, looked at pricing, thought about my catalog and tried to figure out which company I […]

New York City’s Brooklyn Army Terminal was transformed into a euphoric epicenter of electronic dance music as history was made with a spectacular, never seen before B2B set. For the first time ever, Gryffin and Alesso performed their multitude of hits together on stage, as one of the most anticipated collaborations in a long time. […]

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