Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival Places Strict Limits on the Use of AI: ‘Songs Must Be an Expression of Human Creativity’

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The Ariston Theatre as seen during the Sanremo Music Festival 2026. Photo Credit: Ferdinando Traversa Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival has implemented strict rules concerning the use of AI, and organizers have reserved the right to utilize “any available technology to check” competitors’ songs for machine contributions. Sanremo Music Festival madeContinue Reading

“I modified The Edge’s Strat and he got this magic music out of it. Even I never thought of using it that way”: The fabled Infinite Guitar saved one of U2’s biggest hits. But why did Michael Brook’s invention never go into production?

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(Image credit: Courtesy Michael Brook) Revisit the opening bars of U2’s 1987 Billboard-topping ballad With Or Without You. There’s a music-box chime. A heartbeat bassline. A soft but purposeful beat. But what really turns the head are those long, lost, lonely whistles, each one hanging for an eternity, aching withContinue Reading

Finish The ’90s And ’00s Lyrics: The Quiz That Separates Elder Millennials From The Rest

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Quizzes Trivia TrendingTrendingTrending Finish The ’90s And ’00s Lyrics: The Quiz That Separates Elder Millennials From The Rest It’s time to put your music knowledge to the test. Posted 12 hours ago by Kayla YandoliBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff i’m a senior staff writer at buzzfeed. Comments Want to get your very ownContinue Reading

Suno Faces Yet Another Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged November 2025 Data Breach — Plus a Separate Complaint for Allegedly Violating the Americans with Disabilities Act

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Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo Credit: Eric Kilby Another day, yet another Suno class action lawsuit, filed, like at least two others before it, over the AI music platform’s alleged November 2025 data breach. A South Dakota-based Suno user named Michael Beckham submitted the straightforward suit to a MassachusettsContinue Reading

MNRK Acquires ‘Complete’ Black Label Society Catalog, Eyes ‘New Projects That Fuse Traditional Heavy Metal With Contemporary Sounds’

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Black Label Society performing at Norway’s Tons of Rock earlier in 2026. Photo Credit: Birgit Fostervold MNRK Music Group has officially acquired the “complete” recorded catalog of Zakk Wylde-founded Black Label Society (BLS), including over 300 total tracks from the veteran heavy metal group. New York City-headquartered MNRK, which hasContinue Reading

Palomo Spain Spring 2027 Ready-to-Wear

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The best way to accessorize an unmissable menswear look—black shirt, pink pants, and green bow cummerbund? According to Alejandro Gómez Palomo, it’s a copy of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, a novel about a time-traveling protagonist who is born a man and becomes a woman. It seems a fitting choice for aContinue Reading

ElevenLabs Launches Its ‘Best Music Model Yet’ in v2.5 — While Emphasizing That Universal Music’s Walled Garden ‘Deal Is Separate’

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Photo Credit: Franck V. ElevenLabs has officially launched ElevenMusic v2.5 – but not with its newest partner, Universal Music Group (UMG), which is collaborating on the development of a different product. ElevenLabs rolled out v2.5 on Friday, emphasizing in the corresponding announcement that the model “is now the default forContinue Reading