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Mumford & Sons, the Strokes Lead Sea.Hear.Now Festival 2026 Lineup
The Offspring, Fontaines D.C., Chaka Khan, and Pixies are among the performers set for the Asbury Park, New Jersey, event in September
Amid rise of AI deepfakes, Spotify to let artists vet releases before they appear on their profiles
Artist Profile Protection offers artists a proactive layer of control on top of existing reporting tools. Source
Watch Flea Cover Frank Ocean on Fallon
He performed a jazz rendition of “Thinkin Bout You” backed by members of Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet
Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, Nick Lachey Detail Dark Side of Boy Bands in New Documentary Special
Boy Band Confidential, which premieres on ID April 13 and 14, features interviews with Lance Bass, AJ McLean, Nick Lachey, and Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris and Shawn Stockman, among others
Barry Manilow Is Cancer-Free After Lung Surgery: ‘I’m One of the Lucky Ones’
The singer also said he’s “getting stronger” as he prepares to return to the stage after undergoing a lobectomy
Watch Jeff Tweedy Perform “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” on Kimmel
Tweedy and his Wilco bandmates also announced plans to play Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival this summer
New & used: the majors’ pivot away from new music (guest column)
Guest column: Music Ally publishes guest columns which voice the opinions of notable authors that advance specific perspectives on important issues. These are chosen at the Editorial team’s discretion and […] The post is from Music Ally.
Downtown Boys Return With First Album in Nine Years
Get ready for Public Luxury with the punk outfit’s “No Me Jodas”
Music messaging app Feels, which counts Eminem manager Paul Rosenberg among its investors, launches with licensing deals from all three majors
The app, available globally on iOS and Android, lets users send short-form music video clips as messages. Source
Spotify cracks down on fake releases with ‘Artist Profile Protection’ feature
There have been several examples of new tracks or albums seemingly released by artists that turned to be fake. Now Spotify is cracking down. The post is from Music Ally.
Firebird acquires majority stake in Goodlife Management, the home of Fred again.., The Blessed Madonna, and more
Deal brings Goodlife founders Oliver Sasse, Lucy Sasse, Ellie Shaw, and David Watters, along with their team and talent roster into Firebird's expanding ecosystem of management companies Source
Netflix’s New Red Hot Chili Peppers Doc Uses AI to Voice Founding Guitarist Hillel Slovak
Filmmaker Ben Feldman used AI to voiceover Hillel Slovak’s journal entries in The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel
Jay-Z Explains Why He Refused to Settle That Sexual-Assault Lawsuit: ‘It Ain’t in My DNA’
For the first time, the rap mogul spoke about the “uncontrollable anger” he felt over the suit (which has been dropped) and why he couldn’t channel those feelings into new music
Jay-Z Opens Up About Kendrick-Drake Beef in Rare Interview
Billionaires, Bad Bunny, and rap feuds are discussed at length in the new GQ feature
Hybe India announces auditions to find the next “global stars”
The big news out of Hybe in India this week wasn’t about BTS breaking streaming records with Arirang—though it’s likely to debut atop Spotify’s Weekly Top Albums chart for the […] The post is from Music Ally.
Hanumankind, Anuv Jain to stage Australia tours with UNI7IED
When Australian music services company Unified Music Group and Indian booking and talent coordination agency 7Entertainment announced their joint venture, which they’ve called Uni7ied, last August, they said the union […] The post is from Music Ally.
Japanese duo Creepy Nuts touch down in Sony Music’s Roblox world
Creepy Nuts are big well beyond their homeland of Japan, having notched up more than 900m global streams of their 2024 hit ‘Bling-Bang-Bang-Born’ and collaborated with Dua Lipa. They’re playing the US Coachella festival in April, but before that they’re making a splash on Roblox. The hip-hop duo are signed to Sony Music, and are […] The post is from Music Ally.
Bridge Conference and Jukebox Ventures launch £1m accelerator
We like to keep a keen eye on new opportunities for music-tech startups to develop and get funding. Croatian event Bridge Conference has teamed up with Jukebox Ventures to do both. They are launching a new startup-accelerator program for early-stage companies in the music, entertainment and tech worlds. It will start with a session at this year’s […] The post is from Music Ally.
Uganda copyright bill aims to improve royalties for musicians
A lot has been written about copyright reform in the US, UK and other big western markets recently – largely focused on how these laws should be updated for the AI era. However, elsewhere in the world reform can still mean setting up the basics of protecting the rights of musicians, authors, filmmakers and other creators. […] The post is from Music Ally.