Music

Joni Mitchell’s music has returned to Spotify more than two years after she left the streaming platform in solidarity with Neil Young’s protest over it hosting anti-vax content.Mitchell made no comment about the return of her music, though the move comes a week after Young said he was putting his music back on Spotify after the platform ended its exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan’s podcast, which Young – along with 270 scientists and healthcare professionals – accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines.Since…

Last updated: March 22nd, 2024 at 08:09 UTC+01:00 Earlier this year, Samsung unveiled a new type of speaker: Music Frame. At CES 2024, the Music Frame was unveiled as a dual-mode speaker that can work independently and double up as a supporting speaker for a Samsung TV. It is now available for pre-order in the USA. The Music Frame (HW-LS60D) is $400 in the USA and is almost ready to ship. If you pre-order it today from Samsung.com, it should arrive at your doorstep by April 1, 2024. It comes in white, but you can…

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law on Thursday that aimed to protect artists including musicians from unauthorized use by artificial intelligence.The legislation is called the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

Promotions for Beyoncé’s upcoming Cowboy Carter album made its way onto New York City museums Wednesday night, nearly a week ahead of its highly-anticipated release. Advertisements for the album, which is set to drop March 29, were seen projected on several museums, including the Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, New Museum and the Museum of Art and Design. However, Guggenheim shared in a statement with ARTnews that the institution “was not informed about and did not authorize this activation.…

A senior leader of the MS-13 street gang who was one of the FBI’s most wanted gang fugitives was quietly arrested earlier this month at the California-Mexico border on narco-terrorism charges, authorities said.Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada, 48, also known as Lucky De Park View, was taken into custody on March 7 by federal authorities at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego County, sources told The Times. Federal officials did not disclose any details about the arrest. MS-13 gang leader Fredy Ivan…

A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming services into paying him 2 million Danish kroner ($290,000) in royalties. The unusual case reveals a weak spot in the business model behind the world’s biggest music platforms.The 53-year-old consultant, who had pleaded not guilty, was convicted of data fraud and copyright infringement after using bots to listen to his own music through fake profiles on both Spotify and Apple Music, collecting royalties in the…

Uncertainty suddenly surrounds one of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, with Shohei Ohtani mired in recent days in a growing scandal linked to a federal investigation into illegal sports gambling.The public so far has only a fragmented picture of the case. But more facts could emerge in coming days and weeks, legal experts said, as federal prosecutors try to make sense of competing claims about Ohtani’s money being used to pay down gambling debts with a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. One key question —…

When most baseball players are on the field, they look the way most of us do at our jobs.They clench their jaws. They don’t smile. They look like they’re working.Shohei Ohtani is an exception.He smiles. He laughs. He playfully gestures.His talent affords him the luxury of treating the game like a game.He’s Magic Johnson. He’s Manny Pacquiao. He’s Ronaldinho.His youthful spirit is a major reason behind his widespread popularity, and he should do everything in his power to preserve it.On the field, that is.Off the…

The sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic Beetlejuice is almost here. On Thursday, Warner Bros. Pictures shared the first teaser trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the 36-years-in-the-making sequel of the iconic Tim Burton movie, due on Sept. 4. The minute-long teaser sees Jenna Ortega riding her bike to school and later attending a funeral alongside Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, who reprise their roles as Lydia and Delia Deetz. The trailer fast-forwards to Ortega going into an attic to find a model of…

Jane Weaver turns up to our interview in a Stockport restaurant carrying a plastic bag stuffed with albums. They are all old, the worse for wear – she’s taking them to be professionally cleaned later – and obscure: the closest the bag’s contents comes to mainstream is a compilation of soundtrack music from the 80s films of nouvelle vague director Eric Rohmer. “The music from the scenes set in discos or parties,” she nods. “Really good. Eighties, French, synthesisers. Some of it sounds a bit like Air.”This all seems very…