The company partnered with Laced Records for the release which is available for preorder as an 8LP boxed set featuring 130 tracks for $180, or a more affordable double-LP set with 34 tracks for $40. They’re expected to ship in June 2026 and will be one of Nintendo’s first major vinyl soundtrack releases outside Japan.
Browsing through the auction is like a trip through a museum. There are iconic drum machines like the Roland TR-606, legendary synths like the Synthi A (mislabeled as an AKS), and rare vocoders, including the Sennheiser VSM-201. There are also pieces of high-end studio equipment, suits, lots of flutes, and... a dentist’s chair? You can place bids online now, but Julien’s will run the auction live on November 19th, starting at 11AM ET.
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Older songs will now drop off the Hot 100 faster once they fall below a certain threshold. NPR notes that 10 songs are getting the boot due to the new rules, including Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control,” which came out in 2023.
Streaming has changed how songs appear (and stay) on the Hot 100. As Billboard explains:
Notably, amid the takeover of streaming during the past decade, the Hot 100 has reflected repeat listening more than ever before. Concurrently, as reflected on Billboard airplay charts, radio stations are now generally holding onto hits longer and in frequent airplay rotations. That shift has resulted in charts that move more slowly than in the past.
To say that Omnisphere is a big deal would be an understatement. It’s been used on tracks by Kendrick Lamar, Daft Punk, and even Hans Zimmer has put it to work in his scores.
Now — 10 years after Omnisphere 2 — Omnisphere 3 will finally be released on October 21st for $499.
A six-part documentary and Final Show concert film showcasing Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour are coming to Disney Plus on December 12th, featuring guest appearances from Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran, and Florence Welch. The recent Disney price hikes might be a small price to pay for Swifties who missed out on the tour itself.
Judge Jeannette A. Vargas dismissed Drake’s defamation claim against Kendrick Lamar for “Not Like Us,” a song that “contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive bassline,” she writes in her opinion. Not only does no one think of rap beefs as being strictly truth-telling, Drake explicitly asked Lamar to do it in “Taylor Made Freestyle,” Vargas notes. I recommend reading the whole thing — Vargas clearly had a good time writing it, especially that footnote about Millie Bobby Brown.
Terrestrial radio might seem like a relic of a bygone era, but it’s actually enjoying a bit of a resurgence with the younger generations. Driven by a combination of analog nostalgia and algorithm fatigue, Gen Z is flocking to college radio stations to find new music and build community.
Student interest in college radio has dramatically increased in recent years. Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now turning people away, shortening shows, alternating time slots, and running training programs just to keep up with the demand from aspiring student DJs. - Emily White
All proceeds go directly to the artist. Bandcamp started skipping its cut on the first Friday of the month in 2020, and it’s turned into something of a tradition.
It doesn’t run the promotion every month anymore (there’s no Bandcamp Friday in November), but it will return on December 5th.
The birthday is on Sunday, October 5th, but “the original licenses for the core soundtrack are expiring,” a Harmonix employee said in the Rock Band Discord. DLC songs will also be delisted when they are 10 years old. Anything you own will remain in your library.
Model v5’s vocals are too close to perfection to be believably human.
The only human-made element behind Xania Monet’s act appear to be the lyrics.
TE’s EP-133 KO II sampler already has one spinoff in the EP-1320 Medieval, now a Reddit post shows what appears to be a reggae version called the Riddim Supertone, which might be the EP-2350 teased last month. Also pictured is a Ting FX microphone and a two-channel mixer.
Last year, the Archive lost an appeal in its ebook lending case, and now it has settled the lawsuit over its Great 78 Project:
The Internet Archive’s blog simply says:
As noted in the recent court filings in UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Internet Archive, both parties have advised the Court that the matter has been settled. The parties have reached a confidential resolution of all claims and will have no further public comment on this matter.
Every Monday, the app will create a themed playlist based on what you’ve listened to throughout the week. You can find the feature by heading to your library in the Amazon Music app and then finding the “Made for You” section.
My favorite pandemic tradition continues — buying music online where all of the money goes directly to the artists. Bandcamp is once again skipping its cut of funds on the first Friday of the month. But, be warned, there are only two Bandcamp Fridays left in 2025: October 3rd and December 5th.
Ableton Live 12.3 is now available as a public beta with a number of new features, including for the Push 3. But the headlining updates are stem separation courtesy of Music AI (makers of Moises) and Splice integration, which greatly streamlines workflows for producers that rely heavily on samples.
Combining the flexibility of software plugins with the hands-on controls of music hardware rarely works well, if you ask me. But Boss is trying anyway with the $249.99 PX-1, a guitar pedal and app pairing that runs emulations of its classic stompboxes like the DS-1 Distortion and CE-2 Chorus.
I’ve had to venture outside my paid Spotify subscription to enjoy Cindy Lee’s music. The artist recently pulled all of their albums from Spotify (their fantastic Diamond Jubilee was never officially streaming even before this), a recent example in a growing trend among artists. Their music now lives on Bandcamp. I’m going to follow where the tunes take me. (edited)
The team from NextBeat, a “London-based music gaming startup known for blending world-class music licensing with engaging mobile gameplay,” will join Duolingo to help improve its music course, according to a press release.
As legal wrangling over generative AI and copyright continues, ElevenLabs has launched its latest AI audio product with Eleven Music. There are many AI music generators out there, but the company claims this one “is cleared for nearly all commercial uses, from film and television to podcasts and social media videos, and from advertisements to gaming.”
However, except for podcasts, most of those uses are banned for most listed service plans.
