Sony and Square-Enix are both reorganizing, from new CEOs to staff cutbacks. Also, sad news about Penny Blood, more Cotton, and the latest video game news!
After 100 years in business, music industry staple Sam Ash will close its doors after struggling to compete with online sales. about Sam Ash, here.
Paul Sizelove will oversee Sun Label Group as President Source
A Business Recovery Center is opening in Big Sur to help business owners impacted by the Highway 1 slip-out.
Massieville, Ross County — “The Recording Workshop,” now named “The Rec W,” hosted the Chillicothe Ross Chamber of Commerce’s “Business After Business” event last evening. The usual format of hospitality, food, tours and demos, chamber announcements, door prizes, and more showcased the 53-year-old record-breaking (and -making) institution with 21,000 graduates from 70 countries and 50 […]
The ongoing trend of trailers obscuring that a movie is a musical (see: Wonka, Mean Girls) is reaching epidemic levels. Wicked is one of the most beloved and highest grossing Broadway musicals ever—that’s the whole point of adapting Wicked for the screen. Yet while the first full trailer for the movie teases some of the most popular (no pun intended) tracks, we curiously never get to see stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande actually sing. In fact, without the soundtrack, there’s barely anything...
A music festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Atlanta’s Piedmont Park will not take place this year
Google I/O 2024 is underway with several new generative media models and tools showcased this year. The Music AI sandbox raises questions about whether these generative models will impact businesses that license sound to creators. In a collaboration with YouTube and some artists, songwriters, and producers, Google has developed a suite of music AI tools […]
Load shedding will be over but for Stage 1 by the end of this year and will be permanently ended by the end of 2025, says Business4SA, a private-sector initiative to assist the government in key areas.
Randy Travis is a country music legend. There's no denying that, but
Artificial intelligence buzz is all over the news, but for all the technology’s potential, a key piece of the AI story that’s not covered enough is tech companies’ need for existing content to train AI models on—and sometimes using that content without its owners’ consent. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Sony Music Group is putting those companies on notice with a firm warning against unauthorized use of its content. more
The first two signings under the partnership are with songwriter K. Sotomayor and singer-songwriter Dēlian Source