UPDATED: The song-catalog bonanza of 2020 just hit a peak that is not likely to be topped: Universal Music Publishing Group has acquired Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs

The vast majority of musicians earn less than £200 a year from music streaming platforms, according to a new survey.

Spotify has patented a method which uses artificial intelligence to detect plagiarism in music, able to detect a “similarity value” between songs. The “Plagiarism Risk Detector And Interface” technology will be “trained on a plurality of preexisting encoded lead sheets” (which specifies the melody, lyrics and harmony) to compare new tracks to those in Spotify’s database.

Exploring the comment-section emotion of music as served by a mysterious algorithm.

“Do you know what I call an un-played record?” asks Ian MacKaye. “A piece of fucking trash. It’s paper and plastic. So if I make something, I want to make sure it adds value.” Thankfully, as the co-founder and co-owner of Dischord Records, MacKaye has made the very opposite of landfill indie. The Washington DC label turns 40 next month, having created one of the world’s great punk discographies by staying fiercely egalitarian.

A woman alleged that Diplo posted a sexually explicit image of her and threatened others who supported her.

Researchers created an AI system that can predict the most likely position within sheet music that matches an audio recording.

Fans never doubted it, but now a top German court has confirmed it: techno is music and clubs should benefit from the same reduced sales tax rate as concert halls.

Fans never doubted it, but now a top German court has confirmed it: techno is music and clubs should benefit from the same reduced sales tax rate as concert halls. Germany's federal fiscal court BFH agreed with plaintiffs, including Berlin's legendary Berghain club, that they should not have to pay the standard 19 percent VAT on ticket sales when concert venues enjoy a lower rate of seven percent.

A tiny tribe of passionate collectors have dedicated themselves to preserving early musical recordings on wax cylinders.

The song is from 2016, but it resonated with Biden supporters in 2020

With Azerbaijan waging war against the homeland of the band members’ ancestors, the group decided to strike back and use its music to raise funds for its countrymen

Rapper King Von was shot and killed in Atlanta during a deadly altercation outside a night club.

As she releases a box set of her earliest recordings, in a rare interview Mitchell talks about life before fame, the correct way to sing her songs – and her long struggle to walk and talk again after an aneurysm

It's the theremin's 100th birthday this year!! :-)

Engravings from an ambitious and beautiful attempt to catalogue, for the first time, the musical instruments of the world.

Seven years after his death to cancer at age 18, a Minnesota singer-songwriter has returned to the top of the iTunes chart with his inspirational tune “Clouds.” The Star Tribune reports that “Clouds” by Zach Sobiech took over iTunes’ No. 1 slot from Justin Bieber on Sunday, two days after the Hollywood movie of the same name based on Sobiech’s life premiered on Disney+.

Peter Frampton recalls with stinging clarity the moment in 1976 when he realized his career was about to take a perilous turn. “I realized that instead of the front row being a mixture of 50-50, male and female, in the audience, it was all females at the front and the guys are pissed off at the back,” he said. “The guys would jeer at me.”

Google Play Music is no longer available on smart speakers such as Google Nest Home, as the long, slow shutdown of the service continues.

Google Search helps you find the melody that’s stuck in your head with machine learning technology.