Music

Lena Raine, the composer of Celeste’s amazing soundtrack, shared some songs from the Celeste team’s cancelled game Earthblade on Bandcamp.

You can now tune out the world to Link’s most memorable 16-bit adventure as Nintendo has added 31 tracks from the Super Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past to its music streaming app. The 46-minute long tracklist includes the game’s opening title theme, Kakariko Village, and Hyrule Castle, which are all available to Switch Online subscribers.

She’s one of over 1,000 musicians, including Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, and Hans Zimmer, who’ve put their names behind an album protesting UK AI policy. Each of the 12 tracks is a recording of an empty studio or performance space.

Thanks Bon Iver.

It wasn’t hard to imagine John Malkovich being able to embody the spirit of an eccentric, reclusive pop star in A24’s new thriller Opus. But it’s kind of shocking to hear how good he sounds singing “Dina, Simone”, one of the movie’s original songs written and written by Nile Rodgers and The-Dream.

Beyoncé won big at the Grammy Awards this year, including nabbing the Best Country Album award for Cowboy Carter. There’s been backlash, with some insisting the Texas native’s work isn’t really a country record.

The best selling Super Nintendo game of all time (thanks in part to Super Mario World being bundled with the console at launch) is now available for your listening pleasure through the Nintendo Music app.

Silo’s second season may be over, but if you’re not ready to engage with the outside world again, this vibey tour through the show’s sets might be right up your alley.

If you’re free Thursday night, I recommend tuning into the star-studded FireAid concert that will stream live from Los Angeles. The massive lineup includes Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Gracie Abrams, and more. I’m 40 now, so I’m most excited about Dave Matthews and John Mayer performing as a duo.

Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, is composing some music for the revival of an RPG called Off. You can listen to two tracks and read about Off’s influence on Undertale in an interview on the game’s website, and I’ve included one of the tracks below.

As we await news about the next version of the game potentially debuting on the Switch 2, Nintendo has added the soundtrack for Super Mario Kart — which debuted on the SNES back in 1992 — to its music app. The update includes 37 tracks with a 33 minute runtime that will have you feeling nostalgic or struggling with rekindled red shell trauma.

According to a behind the scenes look at its creation, it took eight days and 1,043 takes for the band to shoot the 64 one-shot videos used in the music video for “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill.”

As the catalog of soundtracks in the Nintendo Music app continues to expand, Warner Music Japan is releasing a three LP vinyl set on April 30th, 2025, featuring music and sound effects from Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario World. It’s available for preorder through HMV Japan for around $74, which appears to ship to the US.

In this interview clip that 404 Media spotted, CEO Mikey Shulman, who runs bad AI song generator Suno, says that “it’s not really enjoyable to make music now.”

According to Netflix and Nielsen, peak viewers for the streamer’s Christmas Day NFL games reached over 27 million during Beyoncé’s halftime show. Now, it’s available to stream directly without the football game.

The music streaming service responded to Drake’s accusations that it used bots and payola to “artificially inflate” Lamar’s streaming numbers, saying Spotify “invests heavily in automated and manual reviews to prevent, detect, and mitigate the impact of artificial streaming on our platform,” Billboard reports.

Have you ever wondered who makes the tunes for Spotify’s “ghost artists?” Real musicians, including a jazz artist interviewed by Liz Pelly, in an excerpt from her upcoming book, Mood Machine. I wonder how long that gig will last...

Brilliant decision by The Game Awards Orchestra. The rest of the music in the annual GOTY nominees medley was awesome, too. And yes, Flute Guy was there.