Although musical improvisation—composing new passages on the spot—is not unique to jazz, it’s perhaps the genre’s most defining element.

Futurity

From the UAE to Morocco, the hip-hop subgenre has inspired a new generation of artists.

The National

Collectives like NON and Naafi helped to loosen the west’s stranglehold on club culture – and now the most exciting dance music is coming from east Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Guardian

Experimental Music Blurred Divisions Between High and Low Art.

Literary Hub

Pourquoi éprouve-t-on du plaisir en écoutant "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" des Beatles ou "Invisible Touch" de Genesis ? Des scientifiques ont tenté de l'expliquer en étudiant les enchaînements d'accords dans plusieurs centaines de tubes.

France TV

TikTok owner in talks with top record companies as it plans to battle with sector leaders Spotify and Apple.

Financial Times

While going to concerts remained the biggest sector of the live music market, the report says, with 24.9 million fans doing so last year, attendance remained flat.

The Guardian

One only needs to look at the events of the last year to see that competition in the industry is growing exponentially. Industry leader Spotify is just one example of how competition has forced companies to pursue new users with a vengeance.

Coin Telegraph

Magnetic ribbon for format once the preserve of police interviews is in short supply.

The Guardian

To put it simply, the report tells us that 2018 was much better than 2017 and that it looks like 2019 will be even healthier.

Forbes

L'avènement du big data semble être une très bonne nouvelle pour le secteur, depuis longtemps à la recherche d'une façon d'identifier et de quantifier ses audiences.

Korii

Poet Maha al-Essa said the change is bringing back a culture stolen under the pretext of halal and haram.

Middle East Online

Intelligence could play a role in how quickly people learn music, according to new research on the early stages of learning to play piano.

Futurity

A job in the music industry can be an exciting and alluring idea for those who are passionate about music, and although it’s a competitive industry, there are a variety of skillsets that are compatible.

HypeBot

Jusqu'à présent, les tentatives d'adaptation - encore trop peu répandues - vont dans le sens de leur permettre d'assister aux spectacles musicaux moyennant un.e interprète en langue de signes ou grâce à des dispositifs spécifiques, tels des écouteurs ou des récepteurs en forme de vêtement ou de sac à dos qui traduisent les vibrations en contact avec le corps.

France Musique

Things are kicking off everywhere, it seems — from Chile to Hong Kong, protesters, mostly young, have been taking to the streets to demonstrate against an array of injustices over the past few months.

The Japan Times

Moroccan rapper Gnawi knew the police would come when he and two friends released an unusually outspoken video exposing their country’s problems with migration and drugs and expressing frustration with the king.

The Washington Post

A little over a week ago, a troubling alert appeared on the smartphone of an executive at the private equity giant the Carlyle Group: The firm had been invoked by Taylor Swift.

The New York Times

Pablo Hasél (real name Pablo Rivadulla) is a rapper and a pro-communist who performs “forbidden songs” which Spanish authorities believe glorify terrorism. Freemuse spoke to Hasél ahead of the MUR Festival in Palma de Mallorca.

Freemuse

Older spectators leaving the theatre late on a cool Tuesday night voiced a nostalgia for the long-taboo art form while younger spectators enthused over the performance.

Yahoo News

As technological innovation continues to sweep the music industry, live streaming has become an increasingly important component of bands and artists’ promotional arsenal. Here we look at why you need to livestream and what you need to do so effectively.

HypeBot

Although Spotify launched in 2008, it only officially reached Mexico in 2013—and its capital city quickly made up for the lost streaming time. According to Spotify’s statement, Mexico City has the most listeners on the streaming platform, globally.

Remezcla

These 7 music-focused startups give local music scene a chance against the mainstream.

E27

Classical music streaming service IDAGIO has released an ad-supported free tier as part of its efforts to make the hard-to-pigeonhole genre more accessible. IDAGIO Free launches today in 190 countries, featuring 2 million recordings.

Billboard

Avec la sortie du Walkman, il y a 40 ans, le format cassette connaîtra une nouvelle jeunesse. Avant de complètement s'effondrer face aux promesses lucratives du format CD.

Les Echos

When talking to a body language expert, the mere dilating of pupils can reveal the difference between truth and a bald-faced lie.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Our ears are complicated, delicate instruments that largely evolved in far quieter times than the age we currently inhabit — an early world without rock concerts, loud restaurants, power tools and earbuds.

NPR

If you get kicked out of a Tool show for shooting video on your cellphone, well, that's on you. The band is giving fans / psychedelic warriors ample heads up that this behavior is not permissible and will lead to an ejection with no chance of re-entry.

Loudwire

Face à la crainte du public de sortir le soir, un collectif de musiciens organise, cette semaine, pour la deuxième édition, un festival musical dont le principe est simple : ce sont les musiciens qui viennent jouer chez vous dans des maisons ou des quartiers.

RFI

Side road near Unesco headquarters named in honour of the violinist’s presidency of the International Music Council.

The Strad