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.

viisi’s brand new track "i left my hometown" explodes with buzzing electric riffs, eruptive vocals, and dynamic beats. The track hits like an adrenaline high you'd get from a motorcycle ride into the sunset - out of your old life and into a new era. Watch the accompanying visual now.

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.

Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Stela Cole has just released the cinematic music video for her single "Blood Orange Wine", the last of the trilogy, and is an upbeat indie pop bop.

Ontario JUNO Award-winning rock trio The Dirty Nil are sharing "Am I The Menace?," a new cut taken from their deluxe edition of “Free Rein to Passions” (2023), set for release on April 4th, 2024 via Dine Alone Records.

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.

NxtNow Music had the opportunity to connect with San Francisco based progressive rock band REPTIEL for an exclusive interview to discuss their brand new album “Down Below World”, and much more.

Director Benjamin Farren’s clip for “Nightmares” begins with a flash of lightning in a stormy sky and concludes with a shot of the star’s notebook. He’s scrawled these lyrics on lined paper to calm himself down and get him through nights spent alone, far from the object of his affection.

Directed by digital artist and director Alena Savchenko, the video for “Blind Emotions” utilizes AI technology to generate even more surreal and uncanny visuals to complement the lucidity of the song’s lyrics.

Filmed in the overcast sky of the East Coast shores, Carolee immerses herself in the atmosphere of individuality while reflecting on love. The video brings us through the duration of a relationship; a man and woman clearly involved with each other and in love.

To amplify the themes of “Sleep,” video director Thanos Kallianiotis needed a dream-drenched location, and he’s found one in Thessaloniki, the ages-old Greek city on the northern shores of the Aegean Sea. Kallianiotis’s lens finds May Fall in the shadow-shrouded rooms of a centuries-old house.

Immerse yourself in NYA’S unparalleled artistry through the “Selfish Reason” music video—a masterful showcase of her prolific talents. This top-notch performance highlights her exceptional vocal range and the mesmerizing synergy of her musical ensemble.

Produced alongside Jake Bass, connecting through the universal feeling of love and loss led to the song and video proving to be a breaking point for their careers and their partnership. APROPOS exemplifies the sensation of love through his masterful visual telling of “Heartbreak.”

Anton Tammi’s graphic, gorgeous, and wonderfully unsettling video for “One Night/All Night” takes music video viewers to a place we rarely see: the inside of a human body. Through some of the most spectacular CGI effects viewers will see this year…

He’s not weeping in the clip for “Little Bit Shy,” but he is an infant: an overgrown, bipedal, kitchen-wrecking, and determined to indulge his desires in the most spectacular manner possible. Spider Cherry is a bundle of impulses, interrupting dates, splashing in the bath, and leaving his mother aghast.

The music video for “Good 2 Yuh” is a testament to Stylz Milleon’s commitment to breaking stereotypes. This track offers a setting in a musical landscape filled with female-centric narratives, urging men to embrace their masculinity without objectification

Rock/Folk singer-songwriter Ron Brunk recently unveiled the music videos for his songs, “Be Somebody” and “Nothing”. Watch both great clips now.

In the video for “AIN'T THINKIN BOUT YOU,” the MAKO Girls’s latest single, the young sisters and director Kiki Ely shoot the works with four minutes of athletic, kinetic, immensely rewatchable dancing. They’ve gone back to the Girls’ old high school to make the video, and they’re dancing like they’ve just heard the recess bell.