The first thing you must know about BOYNEXTDOOR is that they’re loud. Not the kind of loud that turns off and on for cameras, but the kind that’s natural and uncontainable — an energy that fills a room even when they’re just being themselves. The six-member boy group is doing …
Read More »Spotify is piloting a Premium membership tailored for kids
Spotify is introducing a new way for young listeners to discover music, announcing a new Premium membership pilot tailored explicitly to kids. Unlike Spotify Kids — a child-friendly app that offers singalongs, soundtracks, and playlists curated by Spotify — the new offering is a parent-managed Premium membership for users under …
Read More »The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music …
Read More »The End of ‘Brat Summer’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think
Charli XCX said it, so it must be true: Brat Summer is over. In a tweet so echoey it got several news hits, the club rat/pop girl said goodbye to the season that may come to define her career—and America’s political future. It was September 2, 87 days after Charli …
Read More »Spotify expands its 'daylist' playlist feature
Spotify is expanding its listening data-generated “daylist” to even more users, so I won’t be the only one playing something as niche as a “demure power ballad Wednesday morning,” “scream writer Monday evening,” or “laurel canyon classic folk Friday afternoon” playlist around here. The audio streaming company launched its personalised, …
Read More »Ticket Bots Leave Oasis Fans Enraged
Oasis, the band everyone likes to sing after too many pints at karaoke, is going on tour. Well, not exactly on tour—it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in summer 2025. Still, considering the band broke up in 2009 and has just reunited, this is what most …
Read More »Martin Shkreli Made Copies of His $2 Million Wu-Tang Album—and Hid Them in ‘Safes All Around the World’
The members of PleasrDAO are, well, pretty displeased with Martin Shkreli. The "digital autonomous organization" spent $4.75 million to buy the fabled Wu-Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which had been produced as only a single copy. The album had once belonged to Shkreli, who purchased it …
Read More »How much for Oasis tickets? Fans joke about splurging on the long-awaited reunion shows
Oasis, one of the biggest bands ever, broke up for 15 years because of a longtime feud between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher. They couldn’t get along, and their fans suffered for it. But now Oasis is coming back — barring some massive blow-up between Liam and Noel — and …
Read More »Let AI compose your next smash hit with Supermusic’s lifetime plan for just $40
TL;DR: Hurry and get lifetime access to Supermusic AI for $39.97 by August 25 and start creating professional-grade music in minutes. Opens in a new window Credit: Supermusic Supermusic AI: Lifetime Subscription $39.97 at The Mashable Shop $319.00 Save $279.03 Get Deal Have you ever thought, I wish I could …
Read More »How to Watch Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg at the Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will be remembered for a lot of things: drag performances, shameful allegations against some female athletes, swimming in the Seine, and, of course, incredible sporting achievements. On Sunday, the Games will add another memory to that list when Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, and the Red …
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