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.
In the Washington Post, Joseph Menn reports on a 25th anniversary reunion for some of the people behind Napster, as they reflected on how it all played out, and the impact it’s had on tech companies dealing with the threat of regulation.
Lawyer and venture capitalist Hank Barry, Napster’s former CEO, recalled famed music executive Quincy Jones asking him whether a particular Dizzy Gillespie track he had sought for years was available over Napster. Amazed that it was, Jones brokered peace talks with the industry, though they didn’t work out.
Switch Online subscribers can now access more than 200 new tracks from NES and Famicom games via the Nintendo Music app, including Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Wrecking Crew, and a handful of Donkey Kong titles. That gives you some retro tunes to listen to while playing Donkey Kong Bananza.
Chipotle is hosting “one of the biggest and most unique listening parties in music history” tomorrow for You’ll Be Alright, Kid, a new album from TikTok Hype House member Alex Warren.
Judging from his current hit, “Ordinary,” Warren’s music has a lot in common with how Chipotle tastes, so the combo makes sense. The song will play at restaurants on Thursday night, and there’s a giveaway tied to the Chipotle app. Hopefully, it works out better than McDonald’s $1 million Flexi-Disc promotion in 1989.
A musician’s dream begins on social media. So what happens next?
If you’re still waiting for Spotify’s lossless audio offering, Chris Messina notes that the 9.0.58 update that rolled out a couple of days ago on Android has new changes hinting at the feature for settings tied to cellular downloading and checking storage space.
It’s similar to what we saw last month, but after all these years, how long will it take to turn into something everyone can use?
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Netflix only released the Sony-animated K-Pop Demon Hunters movie two weeks ago, but its catchy soundtrack is already beating out established K-pop artists in the US. “Your Idol” by the Saja Boys — the movie’s villainous and entirely fictional boy band backed by some respected voices — hit No.2 on the US Spotify chart Thursday, dethroning BTS as the highest-charting K-pop band in US Spotify history.
Drummer Greg Saunier explains the moral calculus behind leaving the biggest streaming platform.
Look, this cover of “War Pigs” is amazing, and I’m not going to pretend I’m putting it here for any other reason. (Via Rafi Schwartz.) Check out Ukandanz’s Bandcamp for more.
Turns out copyright law in music is special — and the record labels are bringing out the big guns.
“The integration of WavTool’s technology will make Suno even more powerful for professional songwriters and producers, and continue to deepen Suno’s role in advancing music production,” according to a press release. Suno recently introduced a new editing interface.
With the game getting an update this week for the launch of the Switch 2, the Nintendo Music app has added 344 tracks from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom including the game’s main theme and opening. Listen to the entire playlist and you’ll be 11 hours and 43 minutes closer to the Switch 2’s release.
The platform is globally releasing a self-service “Pre-Release” feature for Artist accounts that allows musicians to easily promote forthcoming album releases. Fans can automatically save unreleased albums to their Spotify or Apple Music libraries so that they don’t miss the album drop and can listen to them instantly upon release.
Following updates to the Nintendo Switch App and the Nintendo Today app, the Nintendo Music app has also been updated and now features a new sleep timer for those wanting to drift off to their favorite soundtrack.
A small crescent moon icon appearing in the lower right corner of the app’s interface while playing a track or playlist can be tapped to open a menu with timer options ranging from 5 minutes to 60 minutes.
If you’re a celebrity promoting a new movie or your latest album, you used to follow a standard playbook of late night shows, magazine cover stories, or daytime talk shows. Now you have to do all that and eat chicken wings with YouTubers or give your hottest take while riding the subway. The New Media Circuit is a powerful driver of views, likes, and comments — but does it actually sell anything?
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