With the first tickets dropping now, the Music Tectonics Conference turns this October for its sixth edition, adding fresh tracks to its popular greatest hits.

Along with a fresh new design, Beatport’s Beatportal is shifting its editorial strategy to empower DJs, producers, artists, labels and other luminaries to communicate directly with the thousands of fans who regularly visit the site.

Creator/Showrunner David Shin sees "House of the Owl" (Disney+/Hulu) as a catalyst for a new era of prestige television in Japan, prioritizing acting and storytelling over gimmicks. SURF Music is thrilled to contribute and looks forward to further collaborations in global TV and film.

Image-Line has announced that it has acquired MSXII Sound Design, a premium manufacturer of sample packs and sonic tools. Starting now, MSX's over-200GB library of professional-grade samples will become available to FL Studio users through FL Cloud.

.MUSIC, the groundbreaking top-level domain dedicated to the music community, is offering 1 million free .MUSIC domains to members of the music industry until May 24th, 2024, representing a monumental shift towards verified music identities and intellectual property protection.

SongTools, the company behind the leading music discovery platform for artists & playlists, proudly introduces SongFly, a one-click advertising tool to help artists grow their fanbase on streaming platforms.

Virgin Music Group, the world’s leading partner to independent artists, labels and entrepreneurs, has announced that they have partnered with 3AM Entertainment, the label founded by British-born international superstar and cultural icon Jay Sean.

SoundExchange, the premier music tech organization powering the future of music, has announced that Mariah Carey has been honored with the SoundExchange Hall of Fame Award, recognizing her stature as one of the most streamed creators in the organization’s 20-year history.

Tokyo-based SURF Music has been recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative companies, firmly planting them as a music tech company to watch out for globally despite their size.

DataMind Audio has unveiled an extraordinary innovation in sound design and music production: the Combobulator VST plugin. At the heart of DataMind's innovation is the concept of the "Artist Brain" – a representation of an artist's musical essence distilled by training a neural network on their life’s work.

NxtNow Music had the opportunity to connect with SOUNDRAW Founder/CEO Daigo Kusunoki for an in-depth interview to discuss the AI beat generator platform’s creation, how their “Ride The Wave” song collaboration with French Montana came about, and much more.

Music creation platform Splice has released a new mobile experience that combines its powerful AI-based Create technology with the industry-leading catalog of samples.

BeatConnect, the multiplayer DAW that enables real-time musical collaboration, is announcing an investment round of $2.25M CAD led by Sfermion.

In celebration of the Oscars this Sunday night, superfan platform Fave is announcing a partnership with Spider-Man/Miles Morales actor Shameik Moore that makes the ceremony a communal event and gives Spidey’s most fervent fans their own space inside the Spider-Verse.

Music remix platform Hook announces that it has extended its Seed Round to bring on additional investments from Natalie Massenet and Nick Brown’s Imaginary Ventures and a group of strategic music and social media industry investors and advisors.

SOUNDRAW, the hit AI-powered beat-making platform, is announcing their collaboration with Grammy-nominated artist French Montana on one of the tracks, “Ride the Wave,” in his new album “Mac & Cheese 5”.

Tokyo-based SURF Music is returning to SXSW, along with other industry experts, with a panel discussion to demonstrate to US songwriters and artists why they should be looking to the Japanese music industry for new opportunities (both for new fans and increased royalty rates).

Gearing up for its biggest year yet, Fave is breaking new ground by expanding beyond the realms of music into diverse verticals, including sports and movies, making it a one-stop destination for superfan communities across various interests.

Booking platform for venues and artists AmptUp has officially added San Francisco’s The Boom Boom Room to their roster of partnered venues. This deal is significant for demonstrating the need, on the part of legacy independent venues, for new, advanced operational tools.

Musicians often have to keep track of a dozen or more different sources of revenue, and keeping up with everything feels like an impossible task. Mogul, which has just launched publicly, ties together dozens of inputs and income streams to let artists see their entire career and business in one place.