Beatport Celebrates 20 Years of Dance Music and DJ Culture (Decoded Magazine)

By |2024-01-18T20:59:27-06:00January 18th, 2024|Announcements, Beatport, Dance Music, DJ, LGBTQIA+, news, producer, Women|

Beatport announced today the launch of BPXX, a year-long celebration commemorating the company’s 20th anniversary. BPXX will feature a slate of special programming and events, as well as retrospectives from the last 20 years of dance music, all centred around the theme “Music Is Unstoppable.” The BPXX Capsule digital web experience charts the course of [...]

Music streaming service SoundCloud tunes up for sale (Sky News)

By |2024-01-12T22:38:21-06:00January 12th, 2024|DJ Equipment Tools Software, Internet, news, Report, Soundcloud|

  Backed by Raine Group and Temasek Holdings, SoundCloud is to be put up for sale later this year as its owners anticipate a substantial payday, Sky News learns. The owners of SoundCloud, one of the world's largest music streaming services, are preparing for a sale that could fetch in excess of $1bn. Sky News [...]

Book Excerpt: Welcome to the Club – The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ (Resident Advisor)

By |2024-01-10T21:04:23-06:00January 10th, 2024|African American, Biography, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, International, manchester UK, Music, news, Resident Advisor, Women|

  In this extract from DJ Paulette's memoir, out later this month, she confronts the discrimination she and other women faced—and celebrates some of the scene's unsung heroines. I have long been aware that there is a marked difference in the way that Black women are allowed to occupy space in the workplace, and how [...]

STUDY FINDS THAT CHATGPT IS THE MOST-USED AI TOOL FOR MUSICIANS (Mixmag)

By |2024-01-03T18:44:54-06:00January 3rd, 2024|AI, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, Djtechtools, electronic music, Entertaiment, Internet, MixMAg, Music, Music News, news, Report|

  A new survey by Pirate reveals that 30% of artists use AI for songwriting and composition A new study has found that ChatGPT is the favoured artificial intelligence (AI) tool for musicians with 30% of artists using AI for songwriting and composition. In a new survey carried out by Pirate, it asked 1000 musicians on their top 10 AI [...]

Independent artists need to generate 5 million streams annually to make US minimum wage, new report finds (Music Tech)

By |2023-12-14T11:54:07-06:00December 14th, 2023|Dance Music, Music News, news, producer, Report|

  Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and Amazon generate 96 percent of income for independent artists. A new report has found that independent musicians need to generate five million streams annually to make the US federal minimum wage.   The data has been uncovered in the annual 2023 Music Economics Report for Independent Artists from music financing [...]

In Uganda, queer electronic music artists face the impact of a global anti-LGBTQ backlash (DJ MAG)

By |2023-11-15T22:02:48-06:00November 15th, 2023|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ Mag, electronic music, Gay, International, LGBTQIA+, news, Report, Trans|

    Uganda passed a draconian anti-LGBTQ law in March, sending the county’s queer community into turmoil and marking another brutal step in the homophobic and transphobic backlash sweeping the globe. Marke Bieschke speaks to some of the musicians affected about the new realities they face, how their art has changed, and what we [...]

SPOTIFY WILL REPORTEDLY START PAYING LESS ROYALTIES TO LESS POPULAR ARTISTS (MIXMAG)

By |2023-11-08T21:25:30-06:00November 8th, 2023|Announcements, DJ, MixMAg, Music News, news, producer, Report|

  The streaming service reportedly plans to raise the threshold for royalties payments to 1000 plays per track   Spotify has announced it will be changing its royalties structure, with reports claiming it will pay less royalties to less-popular artists.   This new structure reportedly introduces a minimum streams per song requirement for artists to gain [...]

MK ANNOUNCES NEW SINGLE ‘TAKE MY CHANCE’ (Mixmag)

By |2023-10-27T19:44:19-05:00October 27th, 2023|Announcements, Dance Music, Detroit, DJ, House Music, MixMAg, New Release, news, producer|

The new release lands via Ultra Records on Friday MK, real name Marc Kinchen, continues a prolific 2023 with a new single 'Take My Chance' dropping this week.The song, which has featured heavily in the DJ's summer sets, pays homage to '90s piano house and evokes dancefloor euphoria. The Detroit-born producer has amassed over one billion global [...]

South Africa: DJ Black Coffee to Make History at Madison Square Garden in New York (AllAfrica.com)

By |2023-10-01T23:37:29-05:00October 1st, 2023|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, electronic music, House, House Music, House Music History, International, Music News, New York, news, South Africa|

Award-winning DJ and producer Nkosinathi Maphumulo, popularly known as Black Coffee, is set to make history on October 7, 2023, when he becomes the first South African act to headline Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show will feature a 12-piece orchestra, surprise guests, and a 360-degree stage setup, according to Billboard. Black Coffee will [...]

And it’s gone: Bandcamp has been sold again (5 Mag)

By |2023-09-28T16:57:39-05:00September 28th, 2023|5 Magazine, DJ, electronic music, House Music, International, Music News, news, Report|

  Epic Games used, neglected and finally divested themselves of Bandcamp in barely more than a year... And it’s gone. In shocking news, Bandcamp has been sold to its third owner since February 2022. In a memo shared on its website on Thursday, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced significant job cuts at the company [...]

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