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Spotify's Price Hikes Leverage Non-Music Content For Higher Profits
Yahoo Finance
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Spotify Technology’s (NYSE:SPOT) latest round of price hikes in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, ranging from 8% to 22%, has sparked renewed optimism among investors, as the changes strengthen the company’s margins and enhance its long-term...
Music That Endures: An Evening with Wilco
90.9 The Bridge - Missouri
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August 18, 2025
This concert recap is made possible by Blue Sage Deli.Wilco is the epitome of dad rock. Thoughtful, introspective and musically complex, their body of work encapsulates the winding road of life. Anticipation was high at The Midland on Thursday,...
Spotify Criticism Is Louder Than Ever, But Will It Make A Real Difference This Time?
VICE
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August 18, 2025
Every handful of years it seems like artists fall into a Spotify hate cycle. In recent years, streaming has monopolized music to a drastic degree, but Apple, YouTube, and Amazon Music platforms don’t seem to get the same hate that Spotify often...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their entire discography from all major streaming services, with Bandcamp now the only site where you can hear their music in a digital format
Louder
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August 18, 2025
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their entire discography from Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, Apple Music and all major streaming services. In recent months a number of independent artists - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof and...
German embassy showcases techno music for cultural exchange, means of diplomacy
Korea Herald
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August 18, 2025
The German Embassy in Seoul showcased what it called "techno music diplomacy" in Seoul on Saturday. Hosting an all-night techno event that ran from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., the show attracted young techno enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s. The event...
German cultural festival coming to Mansfield
Mansfield News Journal - Ohio
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Mansfield Liederkranz will host Treffen2025, a German cultural festival, during Labor Day weekend. The event, formally known as Landenstreffen der Donauschwaben, will take place Aug. 29-31, according to a community announcement. The festival will...
La Dispute To Support New Album 'No One Was Driving The Car' With 2026 UK And European Tour
Stereoboard
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Photo: Martin La Dispute will tour the UK and Europe early next year. The Michigan post-hardcore band will perform in Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, and London between February 18 and 21, followed by a run of mainland European dates from February...
NCAC Trains 30 Emerging Youth Artists to Thrive in Music Industry
The Voice Gambia
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August 18, 2025
By: Yunus S. Saliu The National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC), in partnership with the International Trade Centre (ITC), on Thursday concluded a four-day training workshop for 30 emerging youth artists. The program, held from August 11–14,...
Oxford music prodigy embarks on piano concerto tour aged 12
This is Oxfordshire
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August 18, 2025
Carey Tan, a year eight boarding pupil at Summer Fields School in Oxford, took to world-class stages in Arad, Romania and Vienna to play the piano in his first composed piano concerto. The premiere at the Arad Philharmonic Hall on August 5 was the...
Aussie musicians flee Spotify as ARIA shores up awards partnership
WAtoday
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August 18, 2025
“Being an independent artist ... you’re free to speak your mind,” he said. “Spotify used to be a necessary evil. Now it’s just evil ... We can’t be complicit in death technologies.” Leah Senior is among those making a move off Spotify. Melbourne...
Review: 6 ways Nine Inch Nails’ St. Paul concert hurt so good
Star Tribune - Minnesota
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August 18, 2025
It was a question Minnesota music fans had been waiting to hear Trent Reznor sing to them for 12 fairly ugly years.“Doesn’t it make you feel better?” the Nine Inch Nails frontman asked five songs into his band’s raging set Sunday night at Xcel...
Roger Waters’ remarkable <em>This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague </em>concert film: A warning and call to action
World Socialist Web Site
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August 18, 2025
Cover of This is Not a Drill: Live from Prague The recent release of Roger Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill: Live from Prague—The Movie,” provides an opportunity for music fans around the world who did not attend one of the concerts in 2022 and 2023...
4 Early Electronic Albums That Made Me Want to Become a Music Producer
American Songwriter
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August 17, 2025
Every electronic music producer has a handful of albums they heard when they were young that basically reset their brains. For me, those albums were early electronic works that were performed decades before I was even born. And I still revisit...
BRUCE DICKINSON Says His Next Solo Album Will Be 'Recorded Live' In The Studio: 'We've Got 18 Tracks Demoed'
Blabbermouth - California
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August 17, 2025
During an August 14 appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk", IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson talked about his upcoming "The Mandrake Project Live 2025" North American solo tour, which is scheduled to kick off on August 22 in...
Violinist Kirill Troussov to Perform with Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in October
Bulgarian News Agency
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Russian violinist Kirill Troussov will perform under the baton of maestro Georgi Dimitrov in Sofia's Bulgaria Hall on October 9, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra said. The programme will feature Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D...
Classical music festival to be held in Hua Hin this August & September
Hua Hin Today
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August 16, 2025
Serenade Hua Hin 2025 brings classical music to Elder Blossom Theatre The first edition of Serenade Hua Hin, a new classical music festival, will take place at the Elder Blossom Theatre from 23 August to 13 September, offering audiences a...
Indian Embassy in Germany organises ‘Bharat Parade’ to mark 79th Independence Day
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 17, 2025
Berlin [Germany], August 17 (ANI): The Indian Embassy in Germany, in collaboration with the Indian Cultural Centre (INDCC) and The Tagore Centre, organised a vibrant 'Bharat Parade' at the iconic Brandenburg Gate on Saturday to mark India's 79th...
Joyce Manor Announce UK and European Tour Dates, Share Video for New Song “All My Friends Are So Depressed”: Watch
Pitchfork
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August 18, 2025
Joyce Manor are back with new music. Produced by Brett Gurewitz, “All My Friends Are So Depressed” is the band’s first original song since releasing 40 oz. to Fresno in 2022. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Jaxon Whittington and frontman...
World News | Indian Embassy in Germany Organises 'Bharat Parade' to Mark 79th Independence Day
Latestly
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August 17, 2025
Berlin [Germany], August 17 (ANI): The Indian Embassy in Germany, in collaboration with the Indian Cultural Centre (INDCC) and The Tagore Centre, organised a vibrant 'Bharat Parade' at the iconic Brandenburg Gate on Saturday to mark India's 79th...
Dijon Announces Tour
Pitchfork
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August 18, 2025
Dijon has announced a tour of North America and Europe behind new album Baby. A North American run kicks off in San Diego on October 25, taking in a number of West Coast cities before moving inland and heading East—including two nights at Brooklyn...