For Londoners, the most common sound associated with Lime bikes is the ‘Hackney birdsong’ of the rentable cycles beeping when they’ve been hacked and unlocked for free. But this week there’s some ...

How do you popularise an American sport in a country where the average person has little knowledge of it? If the country is ...

Why are millions of musicians around the world still practising alone?” That’s the question posed by cellist Amit Peled, who is also professor of cello at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins ...

US deathcore band All Shall Perish released their last album in 2011, but having reunited in 2024 are now crowdfunding their next album on Kickstarter.

The wellbeing challenges on tours for artists and crew alike are well understood now, and there is more support available. The latest example is the ‘Pay It Forward’ fund.

Label bodies in Spain and France have published their figures for recorded-music in the first half of 2026. It’s an interesting contrast for two of Europe’s key markets.

A federal court in New York has handed down a mixed ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Spotify and the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) over mechanical royalties and ‘bundle’ ...

The first round of judging is over for the Music Tectonics conference’s annual ‘Swimming with Narwhals’ startups contest. 10 companies have been named as semi-finalists for this year’s event.

If you don’t have a Substack in 2026, are you even on the internet? And seemingly that now applies to popular music-streaming playlist brands too.

Music-marketing startup un:hurd Music has rolled out a major update – version 2.0 – across its website and mobile apps.

In April, it was announced that Singapore-based “artist-empowerment” social media platform Fenix360 was partnering with Gaana ...

Last week we reported on Sonos’s big software announcement, including a feature called ‘custom agents’ that would let people “create their own [AI] agents through the system, each with its own model, ...