Festivals booked 30 percent women in 2022 and 2023, new female:pressure report finds (Resident Advisor)

By |2024-03-09T19:03:48-06:00March 9th, 2024|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, electronic music, Entertaiment, House Music, International, Music News, Report, Resident Advisor, Women|

Out today, the latest FACTS study examined 175 editions of 110 different festivals. female:pressure, an online database and network of women and nonbinary people in the music industry, has unveiled its 2024 FACTS report. Published today, March 8th, the report analyses the gender demographics of festival lineups. The organisers collected data from 175 editions of [...]

NEW EDITORIAL AND MUSIC PLATFORM WAV.WORLD WILL COMPENSATE DJS AND PRODUCERS FOR MIXES (MIXMAG)

By |2024-03-09T19:17:04-06:00March 9th, 2024|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, DJ Equipment Tools Software, electronic music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, Internet, MixMAg, Music News, playlist, producer, Promotional, Report|

  The platform has launched with a mix and interview from Fever AM co-founders Rhyw and Mor Elian wav.world, a new editorial and music platform aiming to "champion the art of the DJ mix," launched yesterday (March 4) with a mix and interview with Berlin's Fever AM founders Rhyw and Mor Elian. According to a statement from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

THE 20 BEST KRAFTWERK TRACKS RANKED (MIXMAG)

By |2023-11-18T23:16:15-06:00November 18th, 2023|Classics, Dance Music, electronic music, Entertaiment, House Music History, International, MixMAg, Report, Review|

Are Kraftwerk music's most influential band? **This article was originally published on May 15, 2020, after the death of Florian Schneider What a legacy the late Florian Schneider, whose death was announced last week, has left us. Along with the man who still keeps the Kraftwerk fires burning to this day, Ralf Hütter, the duo can legitimately [...]

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 [...]

Apple updates Logic Pro to 10.8, adds Mastering Assistant (DJ Mag)

By |2023-11-09T20:33:53-06:00November 9th, 2023|AI, Announcements, DJ, DJ Mag, Music News, producer, Report|

The new assistant ‘listens’ to your mix and makes suggestions for a better master Apple has updated Logic Pro for both the Mac and the iPad. The new updates – version 10.8 on Mac and 1.1 on the iPad – add extra features to the already packed DAW, including Apple’s first foray into what looks like AI [...]

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 [...]

The 13 Best Internet Radio Stations of 2023 (Lifewire)

By |2023-10-15T20:37:54-05:00October 15th, 2023|Dance Music, Entertaiment, House, House Music, Internet, My House Radio, Report|

  Listen to live radio broadcasts right from your browser or smartphone With the multitude of online radio stations that are available, picking your favorite should be easy. Below is my hand-picked list of the absolute best online radio stations for a variety of genres. I reviewed dozens of these types of websites to uncover [...]

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