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Major artists add the Earth as a co-writer to raise money for the climate emergency
The EarthPercent charity was founded by mega-producer Brian Eno to help combat the impact the music industry has on the planet.
Glastonbury festival organiser has described the all-male headliners as a result of a "pipeline" issue.
Arctic Monkeys, Guns'n'Roses (who do now have a female keyboardist) and Elton John have been confirmed in the first announcement of 54 acts.
PRS Foundation reports on its Women Make Music initiative after 11 years of funding.
Over £1.46 million has been invested in more than 380 women and gender-expansive music creators since 2011 through the fund, including LCCMers who we've worked with to secure those opportunities.
AI music startup Splash creates lyric-spitting 'BeatBot' tool.
Possibly the best waste of your time (harsh, perhaps) this weekend, but what is it? BeatBot is the latest AI music experiment: essentially a short-form text-to-music generator.
Next Gen: TikTok announces 12 artist program for UK rappers, featuring Stepz.
It's pioneering program spotlighting 12 of the most exciting emerging UK Rap artists on the platform, with Stepz, the UK's most viewed artist of 2022, named as the first featured artist.
Industry organisations rally to oppose newly-proposed changes to US visa applications that would result in potentially crippling costs for UK artists looking to tour the USA.
Under these new proposals, the cost of artists visas – which already run into thousands of pounds – would increase by more than 250%.
DistroKid adds ‘intelligent mastering’ tool Mixea to its service.
Yesterday the distributor unveiled its new “intelligent mastering tool” Mixea, which it will be offering alongside its existing distribution and artist services.