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As the SXSW festival made its London debut this week, a group of top music industry leaders convened for an intimate dinner hosted by Luminate — the data and insights company that powers the Billboard charts — and Music Business Worldwide. The mix of music company CEOs and entrepreneurs — many of whom had just been named to Billboard‘s 2025 UK Power Players list — mingled over drinks at the Little House Mayfair social club before sitting down to a seated dinner in cozy booths, discussing new ventures, challenges and opportunities ahead. The evening was hosted by Luminate’s CEO Rob Jonas…
Miley Cyrus is opening up about her music career after leaving Hannah Montana behind. In a recent interview on The Ringer podcast, the 32-year-old pop star and actress revealed that following the end of the hit Disney Channel series in 2011, she was banned from performing any songs associated with the teen sitcom. “After I left Disney, I wasn’t allowed to perform any of the Hannah Montana music,” Cyrus said. “It’s not like I wanted to, I mean performing ‘The Best Of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball,’ wouldn’t have really made sense.” But it wasn’t easy…
Miley Cyrus has shared that Disney apparently stopped her from performing songs from her show Hannah Montana after it ended in 2011.Speaking during an appearance on The Ringer’s “Every Single Album” podcast, Cyrus opened up about not being able to perform the songs. “It’s not like I wanted to,” explained Cyrus. “Performing ‘The Best of Both Worlds’ between ‘We Can’t Stop’ and ‘Wrecking Ball’ wouldn’t have really made sense.”Cyrus also said that although she didn’t want to sing those songs necessarily, she still felt some type of way about the ban. “It was still sad knowing those songs have my…
André 3000 will forever be a man of the people, and for his latest public service he welcomed a group of newborn babies to the world by serenading them on the flute.On Thursday (June 5), the rapper and musician surprised four mothers and their infants at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, playing his beloved flute nearly two years after the release of his debut solo album, New Blue Sun.”Grady moms and babies were treated to their own pop-up flute concert by the legendary @andre3000 – right here in our halls. Sounded like serenity in the key of #ATL [sparkly heart…
Renowned producer Timbaland sparked fury online earlier this week, when he announced his new AI entertainment company and its first artist, an “A-Pop” artist named Ta-Ta. The backlash was swift, with hundreds of people expressing their disappointment over Timbo’s latest move. The longtime beatmaker initially addressed the uproar with an AI video essentially telling his critics to “get over it.” But since then, he’s changed his tune. On Friday (June 6), he posted another Instagram message, this time with a bit more sincerity. “I know I’m trolling but let’s have a real conversation,” he said. “I love my independent artists.…
Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on the Serato Sample creative sampling plugin that lets DJs and music producers sample music for beat making with ease.A powerful and intuitive new sampler plugin for producers that allows you to quickly find, chop, key shift and time-stretch samples. It has the world-famous Pitch ‘n’ Time algorithm built-in, giving you the best time-stretching quality on the market.Sample will work in most DAWs that support AU/VST* plugins including Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro and Maschine.Serato Sample featuresUnrivalled time-stretching powered by Pitch ‘n Time.Flawless key detection and key shifting.Find the best samples with…
Lil Wayne affirmed living legend status on Friday (June 6) night when he took New York’s Madison Square Garden stage for the first time as a solo headlining act. The show doubled as a victory lap for Wayne, who dropped Tha Carter VI hours earlier, and kicked off his Tha Carter VI Tour in grand fashion. While there was plenty to critique of Wayne’s latest offering, he was surrounded by a blanket of love as the 13,000-plus fans serenaded their hero and gave Weezy his flowers throughout the night. The New Orleans icon kicked off the show around 10:15 p.m.…
Lil Wayne surprised fans this weekend by bringing out LL Cool J for a legendary performance at New York’s Madison Square Garden.On Friday (June 6), Weezy F. Baby performed a sold-out show at MSG to promote the release of his latest album, Tha Carter VI. During the concert, the New Orleans rapper brought out Uncle L to perform his classic song, “Rock The Bells.” Since Lil Wayne sampled the song on the track “Bells” from his new album, the onstage linkup made perfect sense. LL Cool J took the lead during the performance while Wayne joined in as hype man,…
Plugin Boutique has announced a limited time sale on Shimmer by BLEASS, offering nearly 40% off on the pitch shifting studio reverb plugin as part of a IMSTA FESTA promotion.Unique Pitch Shifting Reverb emphasizing harmonics and adding a smooth and pleasing reverb trail to any sound! Clean and flexible UI, Pro quality Shimmer. BLEASS Shimmer is a studio-quality Shimmer Reverb Effect that brings stunning harmonic tails to any sound or instrument, with a very low CPU usage.While giving users an innovative and clear interface to enhance musical creativity as well as live performance usability, the BLEASS Shimmer brings highly versatile…
As part of its IMSTA FESTA promotion, Plugin Boutique has launched an exclusive sale on Applied Acoustics Systems’ Objeq Delay, offering over 90% off on the creative effect that combines acoustic filtering with a clever delay unit.The versatile plugin delivers modulator type effects, drum track layering, one-shot re-crafting, dynamic loop mangling, and drones…The plate, beam, drumhead, and string objects impart evocative acoustic resonances to the input signal. Further shaping is also available via low- and high-cut filters.The in-series delay acts as a classic unit or can split the first and subsequent repeats to either remodel the attack or create complex…