For Londoners, the most common sound associated with Lime bikes is the ‘Hackney birdsong’ of the rentable cycles beeping when they’ve been hacked and unlocked for free. But this week there’s some ...

The wellbeing challenges on tours for artists and crew alike are well understood now, and there is more support available. The latest example is the ‘Pay It Forward’ fund.

US deathcore band All Shall Perish released their last album in 2011, but having reunited in 2024 are now crowdfunding their next album on Kickstarter.

Why are millions of musicians around the world still practising alone?” That’s the question posed by cellist Amit Peled, who is also professor of cello at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins ...

Label bodies in Spain and France have published their figures for recorded-music in the first half of 2026. It’s an interesting contrast for two of Europe’s key markets.

If you don’t have a Substack in 2026, are you even on the internet? And seemingly that now applies to popular music-streaming playlist brands too.

A federal court in New York has handed down a mixed ruling in the ongoing legal battle between Spotify and the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) over mechanical royalties and ‘bundle’ ...

The first round of judging is over for the Music Tectonics conference’s annual ‘Swimming with Narwhals’ startups contest. 10 companies have been named as semi-finalists for this year’s event.

Music-marketing startup un:hurd Music has rolled out a major update – version 2.0 – across its website and mobile apps.

Last week we reported on Sonos’s big software announcement, including a feature called ‘custom agents’ that would let people “create their own [AI] agents through the system, each with its own model, ...

The battle between TikTok, Instagram and YouTube isn’t just about videos and views: it’s about engagement – and that’s also a key metric for music marketers judging the success of their campaigns and ...

Kacey Musgraves is the latest artist to appear in a music concert made for Meta Quest VR headsets. A 49-minute performance of hits plus tracks from her latest album has been launched as ‘Kacey ...