Napster Music Streaming Service Abruptly Shuts Down in Pivot to AI—’Napster is No Longer a Music Streaming Service’

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Photo Credit: Napster After its acquisition by AI company Infinite Reality, Napster abruptly shuts down its music streaming service and pivots to… AI assistants? Back in November, Digital Music News covered Napster’s $3 billion funding apparently falling through, leaving the music streaming platform’s future uncertain. Now, the company has abruptlyContinue Reading

What’s Fire?! Mariah The Scientist Seemingly Checks Hazel E After She Drops Emojis Under Clip Of Young Thug (PHOTO + VIDEO)

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Whew, Roomies! Mariah The Scientist is making it clear that she’s stepping and standing ten toes down behind her fiancé Young Thug. That’s the energy she had when she peeped Hazel E leaving a random comment under a video of her man. RELATED: Congrats! Young Thug Proposes To Mariah TheContinue Reading

BTS Reunion Album Release Date Revealed

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2024 Olympics: BTS’ Jin Was “Nervous” About Surprise Role in the Paris Olympics BTS has some dynamite news. The K-pop boy band—comprised of Jimin, 30, Jung Kook, 28, Jin, 33, Suga, 32, J-Hope, 31, RM, 31, and V, 30—will be releasing new music in March, nearly four years after 2002’sContinue Reading

My Parents Told Me I’d Never Own a Home, Now They Want to Move In

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Sometimes the toughest battles we face aren’t at work or out in the world. They happen within our own families. When labels, favoritism, and jealousy take hold, the people we expect to support us can become the first to doubt us. One of our readers, Shaila (34, F), shared a painful dilemma with us. Did she make the right choice? We’ll letContinue Reading

Early KISS Guitarist Vinnie Vincent Charges $225 for His New Single—and Doubles Down After Fans Complain

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Photo Credit: Vinnie Vincent and Gene Simmons by KISSopolis (Facebook) Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent is selling his latest single for $225 in an effort to avoid bootlegging—despite fans “whining” about the price. Vinnie Vincent, the musician who played guitar with KISS as “The Wiz” from 1982 to 1984, isContinue Reading

“I kept seeing outdated business models that didn’t make sense in today’s social media-driven world”: The unstoppable rise of signature guitar companies, as explained by Ola Englund

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Solar Guitars’ AB1.6 Relic guitars (Image credit: Solar Guitars) Rewind two-and-a-half decades, and it was perfectly normal to find signature products made in collaboration with some of the world’s biggest artists. You could walk into any high-end music store and stumble upon Gibson Les Pauls customized by the likes ofContinue Reading