TikTok is determined to launch its own streaming music service. Why? Because when anyone hears a song as part of a TikTok video has to leave the app to hear the whole track.
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TikTok has become a monster when it comes to the recorded music industry as people share tunes by mating them to the videos they make. The problem is that if you hear a
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If you know anything about Brazil, you’ll know that those people LOVE their metal. Nothing comes between those people and their heroes. This includes Joice Figueiró, a tattoo artist, who had tickets to
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We begin with the inevitable mash-up of Beck’s “Loser’ with Donald Trump’s election loss. On to music news for November 9, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: Beyonce’s 2021 tour will be virtual. Coronavirus update
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Yes, rock causes abortions–or at least according to Dante Mantovani, the new head of the National Arts Council (or Funarte in Portuguese). How? “Rock music leads to drugs, which leads to sex, which
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The first book in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was published on this day in 1979. And for music news on October 12, 2018… What is America’s new Music Modernization Act
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This was a momentous day for music in 1954. Texas Instruments introduced the first-ever transistor radio: the Regency TR-1. And now, more music news for October 18. Why was Arcade Fire’s “Creature Comfort”
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I just heard that my favourite sci-fi novel (actually, it’s part of a trilogy) of the last two decades, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, is being made into a movie. How the hell are
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In a case dating all the way back to 2003–further, if you want to talk about what happened in Brazil with the PopMart tour–Bono and Larry Mullen have been ordered to pay a
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On March 27, 2017, Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform at the Praca da Apoteose in Rio de Janeiro, a venue with a capacity of about 40,000. As I type this, that gig
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The American Thanksgiving weekend can be a sparse time for music news. Not around here, though. You just gotta dig a little deeper. There was an overdose/suicide drama involving Sinead O’Connor yesterday. More
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