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Italy investigates Suno’s terms of service, from account closures to moral rights

October 13, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
A man in headphones works on a music track on a laptop next to a MIDI keyboard in a dim room

Italy’s competition authority has opened case CV278 against Suno over terms that let it close accounts without notice and make users waive their moral rights.

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Musical hallucinations: what 80 people who hear phantom songs reported, from hymns to a Windows chime

October 13, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
Alex Van Halen in sunglasses playing a chrome Ludwig drum kit in front of a large Paiste gong

A Journal of Neurology study of 80 people with musical hallucinations found hymns topped the list, 65% found it a burden and one heard the Windows start-up sound.

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Pet Shop Boys’ Alan Turing album: the 2014 Prom they called “a demo with an orchestra”

October 13, 2026October 13, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
Neil Tennant singing in a white coat and Chris Lowe at a keyboard on a stage lit with white light lines

Pet Shop Boys first played A Man from the Future at the 2014 Proms. Now the Alan Turing piece is an album, rebuilt in Berlin with analogue synths and an octet.

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Bowie’s “Heroes” at 49: the Berlin album built around Eno’s briefcase synth

October 13, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
David Bowie singing on stage in a black jacket, reaching towards a crowd with raised hands, in black and white

David Bowie released “Heroes” on 14 October 1977. How Brian Eno’s EMS Synthi, Robert Fripp’s feedback and three gated mics made the Berlin title track.

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Depeche Mode’s 1988 Charles Bridge photo: why tourists queue in Prague to copy it

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
The Pieta sculpture on Prague's Charles Bridge lit at dusk, with the Vltava river and the National Theatre behind

Anton Corbijn shot Dave Gahan and Martin Gore by the Pietà on Prague’s Charles Bridge in 1988. Now fans queue daily to recreate the photo. Here is the story.

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Favourite songs eased needle pain in a 204-patient study, relaxation music did not

October 12, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
A woman with curly hair and eyes closed holds her headphones while listening to music

A University Hospital Zurich study of 204 MRI patients found favourite songs cut needle pain, Mozart helped some, and relaxation music did nothing at all.

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DistroKid is pulling songs over Universal’s AI slop lawsuit, and artists say they got no warning

October 12, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
Universal Music Group chief Lucian Grainge, left, with James Corden and Irving Azoff at a Hollywood Chamber of Commerce event in 2018

DistroKid has confirmed it is taking down tracks in response to Universal Music’s “AI slop” lawsuit. What the suit claims, and what removed artists are saying.

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Teenage Engineering will stop making synths, OP-1 included, says its founder

October 12, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
A white Teenage Engineering OP-1 portable synthesizer with coloured knobs, photographed in June 2011

Teenage Engineering founder Jesper Kouthoofd says the Stockholm firm will stop making synthesizers, OP-1 included. What he said, and what is still unclear.

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ELO’s Twilight at 45: the No. 30 single that became an anime anthem

October 10, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
Jeff Lynne's ELO on stage at Wembley Stadium in 2017 under a spaceship-shaped lighting rig

ELO released Twilight in October 1981 and it stalled at No. 30 in the UK. Two years later Osaka fan animators used it, unlicensed, for Daicon IV.

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Bass you can’t hear makes people dance 11.8% more, a concert study found

October 9, 2026 by Sahil Chopra
Crowd dancing with raised hands under stage lights at an electronic music concert

McMaster University scientists switched 8-37 Hz speakers on and off during an Orphx concert. Dancers moved 11.8% more with the bass on, without hearing it.

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  • Italy investigates Suno’s terms of service, from account closures to moral rights
  • Musical hallucinations: what 80 people who hear phantom songs reported, from hymns to a Windows chime
  • Pet Shop Boys’ Alan Turing album: the 2014 Prom they called “a demo with an orchestra”
  • Bowie’s “Heroes” at 49: the Berlin album built around Eno’s briefcase synth
  • Depeche Mode’s 1988 Charles Bridge photo: why tourists queue in Prague to copy it

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