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.
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.
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.
Teenage Engineering founder Jesper Kouthoofd says the Stockholm firm will stop making synthesizers, OP-1 included. What he said, and what is still unclear.
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.
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.
A Yamaha CS-80 listed as Vangelis’s first, used on his 1977 album Spiral, sold on Reverb for £401,465, about $534,000. The seller offered no proof.
Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygène, recorded in his Paris kitchen in 1976, returns on 20 November with a remaster from the original tapes and a new Dolby Atmos mix.
Michael Smith used up to 10,000 bot accounts to stream AI-generated songs billions of times. A Manhattan judge gave him 18 months and an $8.09m forfeiture.
Spotify pays no royalties on a track below 1,000 streams in a trailing year. Here is what the rule, its unique-listener test and its artificial-streaming fines mean for small labels.