With a voice adored by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and millions across the Arab world, Umm Kulthum rejected gender norms with her powerful, political music. But can her 90-minute songs work in a new stage musical?

The Guardian

We asked Mark Hamill, Condoleezza Rice, Mitsuko Uchida and others to pick the music that moves them. Listen to their choices.

The New York Times

Singing experiments with residents of the Bolivian rainforest demonstrate how biology and experience shape the way we hear music.

Quanta Magazine

Un performer, qui arborait costume, casquette et mocassins blancs, chemise rouge, des bagues à chaque doigt, un chapelet de colliers et une serviette éponge autour du cou, référence à la capoeira oblige, sur scène comme à la ville.

Pan African Music

Con más de 500 temas musicales a lo largo de su carrera, Ennio Morricone fue uno de los compositores más influyentes de la industria del cine.

BBC

The Spotify rival, majority owned by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, has just struck a major deal which it believes will “shake up audio streaming in Mexico” – and could help it establish its goal to become the No.2 streaming company in multiple regions across LATAM.

Music Business Worldwide

Podcasts are firmly part of our media diet – with some turning into huge brands and others happy to cater to the most niche of interests.

MusicAlly

Boomplay was introduced in 2015, as a pre-installed music player on Tecno, a smartphone brand owned by Chinese company Transsion, also recognized as the “Cellphone King of Africa,” when the phone maker looked beyond hardware and beefed up its internet offerings to lure African users.

KrAsia

Le format livestream devient tendance alors que les salles de concerts voient s'éloigner à 2021 la possibilité d'ouvrir à nouveau leurs portes. Mais le modèle encore balbutiant est bien loin de compenser les pertes du secteur, au présent, comme à l'avenir.

Les Echos

¿A qué se enfrenta el sector de la música independiente con la llegada de la pandemia, y a consecuencia el confinamiento?

Radiónica

Tencent’s ownership of minority stakes in two of the world’s ‘big three’ music rights companies is made a touch more interesting by the fact that the Chinese giant may soon find itself opposite both Warner and Universal at the negotiating table.

Music Business Worldwide

With the shutdown of schools, colleges, and universities, educators are turning to existing and innovative new technologies that keep students learning and mentally healthy – this is how you can do it too.

MusicTech

As other countries reopen their schools or are well on their way to doing so, school districts in the United States are still putting together their plans for the 2020-21 school year, which is supposed to start next month in many parts of the country.

The Washington Post

Fully-automated system allows students to take all elements of practical music exams.

Guitar World

Apprendre le piano, la guitare ou le trombone une fois adulte peut sembler un défi insurmontable. Et pourtant. Des méthodes permettent de franchir le pas dans une dynamique de plaisir. Et en plus, c'est bon pour le cerveau !

Les Echos

Several music industry groups have partnered to launch a new campaign, titled For The Fair Trade Of Music, seeking the fair and equal treatment of music creators when their music is performed in international markets. According to a statement from the coalition, U.S. music creators lose more than $330 million in royalties each year without universal national treatment protections.

Music Row

Rap music came to the Middle East a generation ago, when Moroccans studying in the West returned with it. King Muhammad VI has promoted hip-hop as a cultural antidote to Islamism.

The Economist

In the wake of the nationwide protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, and following last week’s music business-led Blackout Tuesday, music executives began to reconsider or eliminate the use of the word “urban” to define a genre of music.

Los Angeles Times

“If the music industry wants to support black lives, labels and platforms can start with amending contracts, distributing royalties, diversifying boardrooms, and retroactively paying back all the black artists, and their families, they have built their empires on.”

Music Business Worldwide

Lorsqu’en 1980 Bob Marley a donné un concert historique pour célébrer l’indépendance du Zimbabwe, se doutait-il que le « chimurenga », le combat pour la liberté, ne faisait que commencer dans ce pays ? Retour en musique sur 40 ans d’histoire...

Aux Sons

Three years ago, ByteDance was one of the world's largest technology unicorns and a household name in China's new media and entertainment sector.

Forbes

Blockchain technology is tipping the scales of the music industry, shifting the power from intermediaries back to artists.

Coin Telegraph

What will the orchestral concert stage look like post-Covid? Kazushi Ono recently led scientific tests with Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in the Bunka Kaikan Hall to determine a safe and musically viable distance between players.

Maestro Arts

The music streaming app has finally launched Lyrics to all Spotify users across the Southeast Asian region, including Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand.

Bandwagon

Netflix, Amazon Prime, OCS pour les films et les séries, Spotify et Deezer pour la musique... Et plein d’autres. En ces temps de confinements, des sites de streaming alternatifs méritent qu’on s’y attarde.

Forbes

Can biofeedback help to unlock the mysteries of music’s therapeutic effects?

Aeon

A three-day “herd immunity” music festival scheduled to take place in Ringle, Wisconsin, in mid-July is taking this energy to the, uh, extreme.

Mic

A bad vibe and worse acid hung around the 600,000-strong festival, with Mitchell getting heckled – but she used a stretch of perfect songs to create a moment of harmony.

The Guardian

Intitulé Inner World, ce disque est composé de 11 titres éthérés au possible. Le Dalaï-Lama l’a dévoilé le jour de ses 85 ans.

Rolling Stones

Un grupo de músicos en Barcelona ofreció un concierto a miles de plantas que ocuparon las butacas del Gran Teatro del Liceo.

CNN