Steinberg update Cubase 14 Cubase 14.0.20 introduces some changes to the Pattern and Score Editors, additional Audio Export options and a new Audio Segment Detection feature capable of highlighting individual elements such as words, drum hits in audio regions. 

Gibson Certified Vintage Launches Next Round of Rare, Highly-Collectible GuitarsGibson - the iconic American-made and leading instrument brand—has a legacy of making world-class instruments since 1894 when Orville Gibson was crafting archtop mandolins. As a natural extension of Gibson’s passion for its unique instruments and the stories they tell, the history-making Gibson Certified Vintage program offers collectible vintage guitars authenticated and certified directly by Gibson, with a new limited lifetime warranty and a certificate of vintage authenticity. All Gibson Certified Vintage guitars are sold via the Gibson Garage in Nashville, TN, call (615) 933-6000; select models will be available for purchase via https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Certified-Vintage.Today, the Gibson Certified Vintage program premieres the next collection of guitars: a 1956 Gibson Les Paul Standard, 1957 Gibson ES-225TD, 1958 Gibson Les Paul TV Junior, 1964 Gibson SG Special, and a 1966 Epiphone Century E422T. “P-90s have been the sound of Gibson electric guitars for the better part of a century, and this release is a small celebration of that,” says Mitch Conrad, Gibon Certified Vintage Manager. “I'm particularly fond of the 1957 Gibson ES-225TD; it's this great combination of the specs of an ES-295 in the thinline package of an ES-330. Don't be fooled by how clean these guitars are—they're a joy to play, and they sound fantastic.”A world first, the Gibson Certified Vintage collection offers collectors an incredible opportunity to own extraordinary instruments, sourced and authenticated by Gibson. Gibson Certified Vintage guitars feature one-of-a-kind Golden Era blue-chip guitars, unique, one-of-a-kind prototypes, celebrity-owned guitars, as well as 70s and 80s models directly from the Gibson Vault. In an industry first, all Gibson Certified Vintage guitars are sold with a brand new limited lifetime warranty. All guitars arrive with a detailed letter of appraisal confirming the provenance and history of the instrument, a certificate of authenticity signed by Gibson’s Certified Vintage Manager, Mitch Conrad, and an array of unique extras.Explore the next guitars to debut in the Gibson Certified Vintage collection below and check back for refreshed vintage offerings as each guitar is sold; for all details, visit https://www.gibson.com/en-US/Certified-Vintage.The post Gibson Certified Vintage Launches Next Round of Rare, Highly-Collectible Guitars first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.

US CPI comes in lower than expected — Are rate cuts coming?The latest US core Consumer Price Index (CPI) print, a measure of inflation, came in lower than expected at 3.1%, beating expectations of 3.2%, with a corresponding 0.1% drop in headline inflation figures.According to Matt Mena, crypto research strategist at 21Shares, the cooling inflation data adds to the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year, injecting much-needed liquidity into the markets and sending risk-on asset prices higher. Mena added:“Rate cut expectations have surged in response — markets now price a 31.4% chance of a cut in May, up over 3x from last month, while expectations for three cuts by year-end have jumped over 5x to 32.5%, and four cuts have skyrocketed from just 1% to 21%.”Despite the better-than-expected inflation numbers, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) declined from over $84,000 at the daily open to now sit around $83,000 as traders grapple with US President Donald Trump’s trade war and macroeconomic uncertainty.A majority of market participants believe the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by June 2025. Source: CME GroupRelated: Bitcoin’s ‘Trump trade’ is over — Traders shift hope to Fed rate cuts, expanding global liquidityIs President Trump crashing markets to force rate cuts?Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on several occasions that the central bank is not rushing to cut interest rates — a view echoed by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller.During a Feb. 17 speech at the University of New South Wales in Syndey, Australia, Waller said the bank should pause interest rate cuts until inflation comes down.These comments were met with concern from market analysts, who say that a lack of rate cuts might trigger a bear market and send asset prices plummeting.On March 10, market analyst and investor Anthony Pompliano speculated that President Trump was intentionally crashing financial markets to force the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates.The US government has approximately $9.2 trillion in debt that will mature in 2025 unless refinanced. Source: The Kobeissi LetterAccording to The Kobeissi Letter, the US government needs to refinance roughly $9.2 trillion in debt before it reaches maturity in 2025.Failure to refinance this debt at lower interest rates will drive up the national debt, which is currently over $36 trillion, and cause the interest payments on the debt to balloon.Due to these reasons, President Trump has made interest rate cuts a top priority for his administration — even at the short-term expense of asset markets and business.Magazine Elon Musk’s plan to run government on blockchain faces uphill battle

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Spotify stock up on strong Loud & Clear royalty report[NYSE: SPOT] Spotify stock beat the market Wednesday rising sharply after the release of it annual Loud & Clear royalty payment transparency report.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 824: Gratuitous Navel GazingThis week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Doc Searls about SCaLE and Personal AI! What’s the vision of an AI that consumers run themselves, what form factor might that take, and how do we get there?

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France’s recorded music revenues reached $1.1bn in 2024, up 7% YoYThe growing popularity of music streaming and a boost from the Paris Olympics propelled France to a large increase in music exports
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Spotify Loud & Clear: $10B, Global Fandom & A Year of ChangeSpotify's new Loud & Clear transparency report shows payments to the music industry of $10 billion in 2024, half of which went to independents. It's the first L&C since Liz Pelly's expose of streaming and the inner workings of Spotify as well as significant changes in who the streamer pays and how payments are calculated.
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Native Instruments release Session Bassist: Jam Bass Packed with over 280 playable patterns and phrases and paired with a powerful selection of effects from NI’s Guitar Rig software, Jam Bass offers a quick and simple way to write bass parts for just about any genre. 

“If someone wants to buy what someone owns, that includes the right to enforce that ownership”: Judge rejects Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss Bruno Mars song lawsuit – here’s whyA judge has opted to reject Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed over her Grammy-winning hit, Flowers.
The suit in question has been brought by Tempo Music Investments, which secured a quarter of the copyright of Bruno Mars When I Was Your Man from Phil Lawrence, one of its four writers (the others being Bruno Mars, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt).

READ MORE: The xx confirm they are back “in the studio” – will we hear new music in 2025?

In the lawsuit – filed last September – TMI alleges that Flowers copied several melodic, harmonic and lyrical elements from When I Was Your Man. In November, Miley Cyrus and her co-authors filed a motion to dismiss, saying Tempo lacked grounds to sue.
Cyrus’s team said TMI did not have the same standing to sue that Lawrence – from whom it bought its share in the song – had, as they say a co-author can sell their profit interest in a copyrighted work, but this doesn’t transfer their individual right to sue for infringement without consent from the song’s co-owners. As TMI opted to sue without backing from Mars, Levine and Wyatt, Cyrus says its suit has no standing.
In 2024, Cyrus and her attorney, Peter Anderson, suggested that Tempo Music Investment’s claim held a flaw: “Plaintiff unambiguously [says] that it obtained its claimed rights in the When I Was Your Man copyright from only one of that musical composition’s four authors,” they said. Their justification for this is that partial interest only gives “non-exclusive rights” and therefore, at least in the US, they do not have the right to sue.
Anderson went on to note: “Plaintiff brings this copyright infringement action alone, without… [the] co-authors or other owners. Without the consent of the other owners, a grant of rights from just one co-owner does not confer standing.”
TMI was quick to disagree, claiming: “They’re seeking to make bogus technical arguments because they don’t have an actual substantive defence to the case. The law is clear that we have the right to enforce our interest.”
The assigned judge, Dean D. Pregerson, appears to understand TMI’s point. “If someone wants to buy what someone owns, buy the entire thing, that includes the right to enforce that ownership against the rest of the world. If you don’t allow that, then you diminish the value of what you’re selling to the point where it may become worthless,” he said [via MusicRadar].
Mars hasn’t yet commented on the legal proceedings, not have any of When I Was Your Man’s co-writers, Phil Lawrence, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt.
Now that the judge has rejected Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss, she and her team will have to face Tempo Music Investments’ copyright claim.
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The xx confirm they are back “in the studio” – will we hear new music in 2025?The xx have confirmed they are “in the studio” – but will we hear new music this year?
In a new post on the band’s Instagram page, band members Jamie xx, Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim are seen sat in a studio, appearing to be listening intently to some newly recorded music. The image was posted on 8 March with the caption, “Last week, in the studio.”

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The xx’s last full-length album was 2017’s I See You, but the members have collaborated since then on Jamie xx’s single Waited All Night, which featured on his second album, In Waves. At the time Jamie said, “It’s wonderful to have the gang back together.”
In December 2024, Romy spoke to NME to confirm that The xx were back in the studio. “I think Oliver and Jamie and I have all tried new things and learned a lot from different projects… I think it’s quite wide open and it’s exciting to be starting again in a way. But we’ve started making some music and I’m really excited about it,” she said.
Elaborating on the direction the sound could go in, she added, “It’s still pretty early [but] I still think you’ll be able to tell it’s us, but I think we’re excited to move it on and keep it feeling fresh.”
In the past few years, Romy has collaborated on and off with Fred again.., and, while she says The xx definitely needed a break, the experience she gained in working with Fred was invaluable.
“[I want] to offer Oliver and Jamie everything I have harvested,” she explained, “The three of us knew there was something new needed to explore. We all understood that we had to give ourselves some time to have space and learn new things.”

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No further details surrounding The xx’s new project are available at this time, but we’ll bring you them as we know more.
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Ableton Live 12.2 public beta announced Live 12.2 delivers updated devices for all editions, introduces an array of new features for Ableton's Push hardware, and adds two new devices to the Move and the Note iOS App. 

NOUMENIA sign exclusive worldwide deal w/ Eclipse Records Eclipse Records is excited to announce the signing of Noumenia, a post groove metal band from Northern Italy, who have crafted an explosive soul-striking sound that hits you square in the face, the mind, and the heart! The band recently finished recording their full-length debut album entitled Echoes with Richard Meiz of Lacuna Coil producing the album, and Daniele Salomone (Lacuna Coil, Inverno, D With Us) mixing & mastering at DDStudio Records. Echoes will be released via Eclipse Records on June 27, 2025.“Signing with Eclipse Records is without a doubt one of the best things that could have happened to us, and we are so excited to begin this journey!” says lead vocalist Vivian Nigro. “All we want for our music is to strike the listener with an insane amount of energy and to reach as many people as possible.” Bassist Matteo Campagnoli adds, “We achieved a complete synergy with Richard in the studio, resulting in what I believe is an incredible album. The journey took almost a year and demanded a lot of effort, but we were all united and driven, simply unstoppable.” Samuele Zichi (drummer) also said, “Signing with Eclipse Records is finally a sign that our music can leave a deep mark in someone, and that’s the main goal of our new album entitled Echoes. I hope everyone enjoys our work as much as we enjoyed making it!” Finally, guitarist Matteo Radaelli states “I am ecstatic about our collaboration with Eclipse, because it’s a big opportunity to bring our art and ideas to life. Echoes is a big step forward for us, because we think it can connect a lot of different people with different musical tastes, mainly because every song gives the opportunity to the listener to have affinity with the lyrics and the music.”Echoes is the title of the exciting post groove metal album by Noumenia, featuring heavy drumming, rhythmic virtuosity, ripsaw growl vocals, and a gargantuan guitar sound that literally reinvents the power of the power chord. Often, the songs on this record kick off with bizarre futuristic introductions constructed of suspense and trepidation, like movie soundtracks made for aliens, dangerous AI, and cyborgs gone mad, yet following these mystic “orchestral” and “celestial” preludes, Noumenia hit us with drop after drop that rock so hard we are stunned. The pound and burn on this record are massive, the hooks mesmerizing, the changes invigorating, the philosophical lyrics all too close to the heart, the bottom-side where we stockpile secrets and darkness. Musically, this record makes for a striking hybrid, explosive and smooth, hard diamond with a soft shine, a thick dose of dangerous velvet. Holistically, it seems that the band has a mission here to invigorate, exfoliate, and buzzsaw the brain so the new world looks real and raw. At the beginning of the record, we are asked to “Tear off the eyes, your sight is stale / Cut off your tongue, [and] never exhale.” That said, we are also prompted to approach each day from a position of strength and rejuvenation, as it says in focus track number one titled, “The Circle” that “From dust and bones, we’ll be reborn.” In the second focus track: “Fall Apart,” the traditional vocal warms us to the core and sets us on the sheer precipice of the monstrous growl symbolizing the fierce internal battles we wage in our effort to “Unbind the rope that chokes [the] heart.” Finally, with the third focus track: “Black Ocean,” we are exposed to a variety of vocals that are in themselves a symphony of tone, pitch, and power. And though there is a warning of a “systems crash,” there is hope in what has become a strange yet peaceful shadowland, in that we are asked to “Stay with me ‘til the sun kisses the horizon / Sail with me through the waves of infinity.” Echoes features cover art designed by Samuele Zichi, and it is scheduled for release on June 27, 2025.Pre-Save or Pre-Order Echoes at this location.For more information about Noumenia and their “Echoes” album, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or Eclipse Records, and follow them on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube Music, Tidal, and Deezer now!The post NOUMENIA sign exclusive worldwide deal w/ Eclipse Records  first appeared on Music Connection Magazine.