Alt-Pop trio Concrete Castles just released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Brand New Me, out today, August 25th via Velocity Records and Equal Vision Records. This serves as the band’s follow up to their debut album Wish I Missed U which was released in September 2021. To stream/download the new album today, visit: https://velocity.lnk.to/brandnewme Additionally, fans can pre-order physical copies of…
Artiphon & Warner Music Group Celebrate 50 Years of Hip Hop with AR Music Lenses featuring Diddy, Lil’ Kim, and the Notorious B.I.G.
Open the new Diddy Effect on the Rhino Records Instagram, and you’ll see your own face rotating as if you’re a vinyl record on a turntable. You’ll hear his 1997 hit, “Been Around the World,” until you reverse the record with a DJ move and your world starts turning the other way, revealing the foundational sample: “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie. Created in…
As Seen On TechCrunch: Artiphon Reinvents The Musical Instrument Again With Chorda, The Band in Your Backpack
What if you could play any sound in the world, everywhere you go? You could make beats over breakfast, strum your favorite song on the subway, or compose a symphony in the park. What if making music became an essential part of your everyday life—a little lunch break distraction, a playful karaoke with a friend,…
AI Music Start-Up AudioShake Raises $2.7M Seed Round, Investors Include Metallica-backed Black Squirrel Partners, AJR, Crush Ventures + more
As featured in Music Business Worldwide, Fortune, Digital Music News and more, this week AI music start-up AudioShake announced a $2.7 million seed round led by Indicator Ventures, with participation from Precursor Ventures, and Side Door Ventures. The round includes investments from a number of high-profile musicians, songwriters, managers, and music industry executives such as…
In The Industry Spotlight: Insomniac Music Group To Provide Catalog Of Music To 200k+ Creators, Brands, & Businesses Via Innovative Partnership With Slip.stream
As featured on Billboard, Variety, and Music Business Worldwide, Slip.stream is in the music industry spotlight this week. Through a first-of-its-kind partnership, Insomniac Music Group’s music catalog, including songs from over 120 artists, will be made available and claim-free on all platforms for creators, gamers, brands, and companies via Slip.stream’s easy online subscription license. A…
Former Google and Stripe Developers Launch Myxt, a Collaborative Music Workplace with $2M Seed Funding From Accel and Quiet Capital
Today, Myxt announced the launch of its audio file management platform for creators to stream, collaborate, and discover new insights on their library. The company also shared its seed funding of $2 million led by Accel and Quiet Capital to support the development of Myxt’s centralized audio workplace and help expand its growing community of…
Vitamin String Quartet Releases New Album Vitamin String Quartet Performs Prince, Featuring String Stylings Of “Purple Rain”, “When Doves Cry”, “Little Red Corvette”
As Vitamin String Quartet continues to expand their impressive catalog of orchestral tributes, the pop-culture-inspired instrumentalists just released their latest full-length album, Vitamin String Quartet Performs Prince, available today, April 14th via Vitamin Records. The latest album features string stylings of the rock legend’s most popular songs including “Purple Rain”, “When Doves Cry”, “Little Red…
AudioShake’s AI Solves Dubbing Challenges for Creators at Scale in New Partnership with Cielo24
Creators want their videos to reach as many people as possible, which is why localizing content into other languages is so important to their global marketing strategy. While AI is increasingly employed to help automate content localization, the quality has always fallen short of what professional dubbing services can offer. That’s because most content creators…
Forbes: Why Lovelytheband’s Debut Song Was No ‘Happy Accident’
As lovelytheband prepares to release their third full-length album, if we’re being honest, the band reflects on where they were during the “broken” days and where they are now in their recent interview with Forbes. Despite spending 76 weeks on the Billboard Alternative Songs charts, breaking the record of longest run at 66 weeks on…
Forbes: As Global Online Music Education Booms, Tribe XR Inspires DJs
With over 90,000 students enrolled around the world, Tribe XR is continuing its mission to turn aspiring DJs into performing DJs, developing the next generation of talent and now it’s entering the classrooms, IRL. This week, the Tribe XR team spoke to Forbes about their commitment to creating an experience that instructs across all different skill…