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fromEsquire
1 day ago

Lana Del Rey's James Bond Song Is, Well, Strange

Lana Del Rey's song for 007 First Light uniquely invites players to engage with the game, marking a departure from traditional Bond themes.
Music
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Listen to Lana Del Rey's Theme for the New James Bond... Video Game

Lana Del Rey collaborated with David Arnold on a new theme for the 007 video game First Light.
Music production
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The future of music is human-generated

The music industry's value is shifting from songs to the human connection behind performances as AI-generated music becomes abundant.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

wall-mounted vinyl player connects with CD and cassette decks for triple listening session

The TTT-W magnetic modular wall rack is flushed against the wall, featuring four circular magnetic pads that create a vertical design piece, unifying the audio devices.
Music production
Podcast
fromMarTech
2 weeks ago

Why digital audio is a must-have for your retail media plan | MarTech

Digital audio is becoming a crucial advertising channel, reflecting changing consumer behavior and offering significant opportunities for targeted marketing.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Trailblazers, trumpets and the theramin: 10 soundtracks that changed the way we listen to movies

The evolution of film music transitioned from live accompaniment to synchronized soundtracks, shaping the cinematic experience significantly.
London music
fromPitchfork
3 weeks ago

Vince Clarke Launches New Analog Synth Covers Project

Vince Clarke collaborates with Neil Arthur and Benge for a covers album titled Doublespeak, featuring analog synth renditions of various classic songs.
fromGSMArena.com
3 weeks ago

Spotify's SongDNA lets you explore the writers, producers, and collaborators behind a song

When you get it, you'll see a SongDNA card 'on supported tracks'. If you tap this, you can explore the writers, producers, and collaborators behind a song, see samples and interpolations that shaped its sound, and browse the covers it inspired.
Mobile UX
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: Having no identity very much defines my identity'

Jung Jae-il's unique composition style blends familiar sounds with unsettling elements, exemplified in the haunting theme of Squid Game.
#academy-awards
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Sound takes center stage: Inside the company that produces award-winning sounds for movies

Foley artists create sound effects for films, contributing approximately 50% of a movie's audio and bringing scenes to life through detailed sound textures and movements.
Music
fromPitchfork
4 weeks ago

JWords Announces New Album Sound Therapy

JWords releases her second solo album Sound Therapy on May 8, featuring her first lead vocal performances alongside collaborators Kingsley Ibeneche and Nappy Nina.
E-Commerce
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 month ago

How music technology is changing the modern retail store - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Physical retail stores are transforming into experience-driven spaces where strategic audio systems and environmental design significantly influence customer behavior and brand perception.
Podcast
fromThedrum
1 month ago

How to Produce a Break-Through Podcast for Your Brand

Podcasts reach 144 million U.S. monthly listeners by 2026, with 43% of decision-makers consuming thought leadership via podcasts, making them essential for brand strategy despite quality concerns in the market.
fromDefector
1 month ago

R&B Wants To Make Pop Music Fun Again | Defector

R&B in the 21st century has been in a constant state of flux, tugged between safe traditionalism and blurry attempts at progression. For the last decade-plus that "progression" has seen R&B music become more indebted to trap records and the moody atmospherics of alternative bands like Radiohead, Coldplay, or My Bloody Valentine.
Music
fromLos Angeles Times
9 years ago

'Wolverine' composer Marco Beltrami goes traditional in Pacific Palisades

Built in 2000, the two-story house on a corner lot has plenty of curb appeal. A black-hued gable roof creates visual contrast against crisp white siding and shutters. A white picket fence wraps around the front of the property.
LA real estate
Music
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Watch the Sunny Music Video to ML Buch's New Song

ML Buch released a new untitled song she started in 2016, accompanied by a cheerful music video featuring a person skipping with a baby and a dog.
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Radiohead Refuses To Be Motion Picture Soundtrack For ICE Propaganda Video - Above the Law

We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain't funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don't get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go f- yourselves... Radiohead
US politics
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Stock music you need for UI, social media, and games

In recent years, multimedia content has firmly established itself online, fueled by the development of high-speed Internet technologies as well as the growing availability of tools for creating and editing video. The global lockdowns also contributed to this process by forcing people to look for similar alternatives on the web. If integrating video into your communications sounds like an overwhelming investment, start leveraging your products with music and audio that are often underestimated by marketers.
Social media marketing
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Oneohtrix Point Never on the Music That Made Him

He didn't know the power of this thing. He just wanted it for its accordion sounds. Still, the instrument fascinated the burgeoning musician, and by the time he was five, he had stumbled on an old VHS concert doc that showed him the real power of analog machinery. I was completely consumed by the mystery of how these things were being made.
Music
Television
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Industry Got Darker. So Did Its Score.

Industry's fourth season evolves into a high-stakes psychosexual thriller featuring financial intrigue, international spycraft, and morally bankrupt characters operating in an absurdist world of cutthroat banking.
fromColossal
1 month ago

Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized Soundtracks

Radioposter has built what it calls Paper-fi: physical books with synchronized audio soundtracks that follow readers in real time as they turn each page. No chips embedded in the paper, no QR codes to scan. The system uses patented computer vision and other modes through a smartphone or smart glasses to track your place in the book and play the corresponding audio.
Arts
Berlin music
fromVulture
1 month ago

John Williams, Without Visuals

At 94, John Williams composed his first piano concerto for Emanuel Ax, drawing inspiration from jazz pianists Art Tatum, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson while maintaining his own compositional voice.
Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

How Ludwig Goransson's Scores Became the Main Character

Ludwig Göransson's childhood exposure to his father's musical diversity—from blues to Metallica—shaped his approach to film composition, blending genre-defying styles across award-winning scores.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Analog is back, and my millennial heart couldn't be happier | Tayo Bero

Usually, my handbag is a medley of digital devices and life essentials my phone, iPad, chargers, keys, tampons. But lately, you're likely to also find a half-done newspaper crossword, a ton of stationery, the book I've restarted three times, and whatever scraps and trinkets I've picked up throughout the day to put in my scrapbook. Analog is back, and it feels like we need it more than ever.
Mindfulness
fromDigiday
2 months ago

Inside Goalhanger's shift from podcast producer to screen studio

On YouTube, The Rest is History podcast draws roughly around 500,000 viewers, who stick around for an average of about 48 minutes. That's close to the length of a traditional hour-long show and even longer than the podcast's strong audio average of around 40 minutes.. For the production team, seeing that level of engagement, especially on TV screens, was a turning point. People weren't just listening along to podcasts. They're settling in to watch now too.
Media industry
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Add to playlist: the genre-busting, buttery falsetto of Natanya and the week's best new tracks

Natanya tears genres open and rebuilds them in her own image. Her drums swing loose and jazzy over heavy 808s; synths drift dreamily before snapping into gritty guitar riffs. Writing, producing and arranging all her own work, she weaves together neosoul silk, R&B groove, indie edge, and flashes of grunge, all carried by a buttery falsetto that nods to Aaliyah, Amy Winehouse, Janet Jackson and early Destiny's Child.
London music
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

David Wise: "Stickerbush Symphony"

David Wise's 'Stickerbush Symphony' from Donkey Kong Country 2 became an internet phenomenon through a 2012 looped video, serving as a therapeutic anthem for users reflecting on life's challenges.
Podcast
fromRAIN News
1 month ago

A landscape of listening

Podcasting in the U.S. continues significant growth, reaching diverse demographics—especially ages 25–44, males, Black and Hispanic listeners—with strong crossover between listening and watching.
fromBrooklynVegan
3 months ago

Barry Adamson (Magazine, The Bad Seeds) tells us about his five favorite film scores of all time

His first solo single was a cover of Elmer Bernstein's theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, and his debut solo album, Moss Side Story, was a soundtrack to a nonexistent film noir. He's gone on to compose scores for actual soundtracks, like new documentary SCALA!!!, which is about London's infamous arthouse cinema from the '70s and '80s where Adamson spent a lot of time.
Film
#ai-in-music
Music production
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Damon Albarn Confirms He's Scoring Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI Movie

Damon Albarn scores Luca Guadagnino's AI film 'Artificial' and argues that AI cannot replicate the soul and intuitive journey embedded in authentic artistic creation.
Music production
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Damon Albarn Confirms He's Scoring Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI Movie

Damon Albarn scores Luca Guadagnino's AI film 'Artificial' and argues that AI cannot replicate the soul and intuitive journey embedded in authentic artistic creation.
Film
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Daniel Blumberg: The Testament of Ann Lee (Original Soundtrack)

The Testament of Ann Lee portrays Shaker religious ecstasy through contorting, trembling bodies and a live-recorded, labor-intensive soundtrack reworking traditional Shaker hymns.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Metal Band Releases New Album on N64 Cartridge

Last year saw the highest vinyl record sales since 1984, signaling a strong desire among music enthusiasts to return to a simpler time of physical media. Even cassette tapes are making a comeback, with major artists including Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift releasing their material on the iconic plastic, four-inch audio reels. Now, self-described "party slam" metal band Party Cannon is taking the nostalgia play - often framed as an act of defiance against greedy and AI-slop-infested streaming platforms - to a new level.
Music
fromThe Independent
2 months ago

Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood asks for music to be removed from Melania movie

"It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary," Greenwood and Anderson's representatives said in a joint statement obtained by Variety. His attorneys claimed that while Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, the film's distributor, Universal, "failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result, Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary."
Film
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fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Alex G and the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan to Score Jane Schoenbrun Film

Camp Miasma is a horror film scored by Alex G, featuring Paul Buchanan vocals, and starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.
Music
fromConsequence
2 months ago

Record Store Day 2026: The 45 Must-Have Releases

Record Store Day 2026 (April 18) features limited-edition vinyl, box sets, and specialty releases from major artists including Bruno Mars, Slipknot, Springsteen, and Bowie.
Film
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Giorgio Moroder: "Chase"

Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" uses hypnotic arpeggiated synth bass, delay, and dynamic mixing to create suspenseful film moments and an extended, dancefloor-ready eight-and-a-half-minute track.
Music
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Engage Actively With Music to Reap Its Greatest Benefits

The ukulele is an accessible, increasingly popular instrument that people of nearly any age and skill level can learn and play in local clubs.
Film
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

Where Was 'The History of Sound' Filmed?

A music-driven love story follows Lionel and David across global locations, exploring memory, grief, and the practical filmmaking challenges of location and tax incentives.
Film
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood want Phantom Thread track removed from Melania

Jonny Greenwood's Phantom Thread score was used without his consultation in the Melania documentary, and Anderson and Greenwood have asked for its removal.
Music
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Is AI Ruining Music?

Streaming economics, algorithmic recommendations, and generative AI commodify music, reduce artist revenue, and threaten creative control and discovery.
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Fever Ray Shares New Songs From Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! Soundtrack

I'm very thankful for being invited to this project by Maggie Gyllenhaal! I was a fan before, but when I read the manuscript for the first time, I was hooked. The language of The Bride! is poetic, fun and magical, exactly where I like to exist.
Film
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fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Underscores Drops New Single "Tell Me (U Want It)"

Underscores released 'Tell Me (U Want It)' as the third single from her upcoming third album, following 2025 singles 'Do It' and 'Music.'
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Nine Inch Nails Release New Remix Album TRON Ares: Divergence

TRON Ares: Divergence features remixes from ARCA, Mark Pritchard, Boys Noize, Lanark Artefax, Chilly Gonzales, Danny L Harle, Jack Dangers, Pixel Grip, Working Men's Club, The Dare, and Schwefelgelband. Essentially, it's Challengers [Mixed], but with contributors other than Boys Noize.
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