MLC and Beatdapp partner to fight Streaming FraudLearn how the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and Beatdapp have partnered to fight streaming fraud and ensure artists get the royalties they deserve. This partnership could reshape the way digital music fraud is detected and prevented.
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Take a trip down memory lane with Phoenix, Air, Kavinsky and more at the Olympics closing ceremonyThe 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris came to a spectacular close on Sunday with a star-studded musical performance featuring some of France’s most beloved artists. Phoenix, the indie rock band from Versailles, took centre stage at the Stade de France, performing a medley of songs that had the sea of athletes dancing and singing along.

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Phoenix’s setlist spanned their impressive catalogue, with songs ranging from their early days to their most recent record Alpha Zulu, released in 2022. They kicked off the performance with the infectious Lisztomania from their 2009 album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, before welcoming French DJ-producer Kavinsky and Belgian singer Angèle onstage for a rendition of Nightcall from the Drive soundtrack.
Later on, Cambodian rapper VannDa joined Phoenix to breathe new life into some of their classic hits, including If I Ever Feel Better and Funky Squaredance.
The night also featured an appearance by Air, another legendary band from Versailles, who performed their hit song Playground Love from 2000 film The Virgin Suicides. Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, who has collaborated with Phoenix in the past, also took the stage to duet on Tonight before the set wrapped up with 1901.
After the show, Phoenix shared a statement regarding the experience: “We are infinitely happy to have had the chance to celebrate with all the athletes and the entire world at the Closing of the Olympic Games in our beloved city of Paris.”
“It was a wonderful moment to have been invited to take the stage with our friends from France and around the world, honouring the French spirit and remaining true to our motto: Liberté, Égalité, Phoenix! We are thrilled to both pass the baton to the Paralympics athletes and to Los Angeles for the forthcoming 2028 games.”
Check out the performances below.

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Phoenix performs Nightcall (Guy-Man produced) with Kavinsky at Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony byu/Connor_Cleve inDaftPunk

Elsewhere, singer-songwriter H.E.R. played a stunning rendition of the US national anthem, and welcomed Tom Cruise as he rappelled down from the roof of the Stade de France in Paris.
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David Goldsen promoted to Senior Vice President, North America A&R at Warner Chappell MusicA&R exec elevated to leadership role, on top of signing Zach Bryan, Mitski, Tones and I, Red Clay Strays, Laufey, Teddy Swims, and more

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Zedd to host super small NYC rave for only 25 people – here’s how you get inZedd is hosting a secret rave for just 25 attendees this August, and you’ll need to get your detective hat on if you want to get in.
In partnership with 5 Gum, Zedd is hosting an online scavenger hunt. Hopeful attendees will need to follow a series of hints shared on both 5 gum and Zedd’s social media channels.

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This special, intimate show will take place on 22 August at a New York City bodega. Fans need to use the hints shared online to decipher the exact location, and also “decipher clues hidden in plain sight,” according to a press release (via EDM).
The first 25 people to figure out the location must visit the bodega in advance to receive a glow-in-the-dark pack of 5 Gum, which also serves as their ticket. At the show, fans will be treated to new music from Telos, Zedd’s forthcoming album (and first in nearly a decade), landing officially on 30 August.
Those who don’t manage to get into the super secret rave will still have the chance of winning $500 for tickets to spend on Zedd’s upcoming tour or event merchandise. The drawing will commence on the 5 Gum website on 26 August and run until 6 September.

“I love to deliver the unexpected at my shows, and performing at what will be one of my most intimate and unique venues yet – an actual New York City bodega – certainly aligns with that. Partnering with 5 Gum to deliver this amazing experience will definitely be one for the books,” Zedd comments.
“We know that 5 Gum and Zedd fans alike are known to embrace the thrill of a new adventure, so what better way to do that than getting the chance to be one of the few to uncover and attend such an intimate, unforgettable experience with a world-renowned DJ,” adds Maria Urista, Vice President, Gum & Mints at Mars.
Find out more information at 5 Gum.
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Ally Audio releases FREE Z-Verb lightweight reverb plugin for macOS
Ally Audio has launched the Z-Verb reverb plugin as an exclusive macOS release in VST3 and AU formats. The indie developer describes Z-Verb as a plugin that “can expand your sounds into another dimension.” Ally Audio explains that the plugin allows users to “Play around with space and wetness with a pad interface to quickly [...]
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RIP Peter Janis Radial Engineering have announced that their founder, Peter Janis, has sadly passed away. 

Thieves steal €40,000 worth of Clean Bandit’s gear in IbizaChart-topping English electronic trio Clean Bandit found themselves victims of a large-scale robbery last weekend, when thieves had away with €40,000 worth of equipment and cash as they were working in Ibiza, Spain.
The group were visiting the island to shoot a music video alongside David Guetta and Anne-Marie for their latest single, Cry Baby.

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Speaking to The Sun, Clean Bandit cellist and vocalist Grace Chatto tells the story of the theft.
“Jack and Luke [Patterson] flew back to London because they had to edit the video, so luckily the footage was safe,” she explains. “But I was supposed to bring back the lenses. We went out for dinner, then, when we came back, someone had crowbarred the window and taken the lenses and laptops and cash.”
While Chatto is hopeful that the band will be able to claim the losses on insurance, she says she and the remaining crew were “scared” to sleep at the same location that night.
You can check out the music video for Cry Baby – which was put together with the footage that was safely transported home before the robbery took place – below.

Sadly, musicians and producers are often the targets of such thefts. Last year, techno artist Pfirter had over £15,000 worth of gear stolen from his studio while he was on tour, including a Roland SH-101 software synthesizer, PSI Audio a-21m speakers and more.
And in July 2023, burglars stole upwards of $100,000 worth of microphones from London-based pro audio supplier KMR Audio.
Learn more about Clean Bandit via their official website.
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Nomad Factory announce Analog Mastering Tools V2 The latest version of Nomad Factory's AMT suite promise to set a new standard in mixing and mastering software. 

Storage locker hunters uncover Kanye West gear in epic haul – featuring AKG mics, Yeezys, an Ensoniq sampler and moreA group of storage locker hunters have recently struck gold after uncovering a massive collection of Kanye West gear on their latest haul.
The team, known as Locker Blocker, unboxed the contents of their latest storage locker purchase in a ‘live’ opening video on TikTok last week. The excitement kicked off with the reveal of a flight case labelled with the name “Kanye West” and the word “Grammys”.

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Among the most notable finds are some pretty pricey AKG C414 microphones, custom in-ear monitors, an actual Ensoniq ASR-10 sampling keyboard (Yes, we’re serious) with the name ‘Tarik’ written on it and what looks to be stage costumes from a Hollywood Bowl performance.
There are also stacks of manilla envelopes containing supposedly never-before-seen Yeezy sketches and designs, and a pair of Yeezy Season 6 boots to top things off.
The video has since gone viral, even catching the attention of producer Mike Dean, who has worked closely with West on many of his albums. Dean expressed curiosity in the comments, asking if any of his cases were among the items, to which Locker Blocker confirmed there were not.

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♬ original sound – Locker Blocker

While the team has not disclosed their plans for the items or their estimated value, the find undoubtedly holds significant cultural and monetary worth — as many users in the comment section have pointed out.
“They’ve literally hit the Kanye West jackpot,” wrote one fan.
In other news, Kanye West and the estate of Donna Summer recently reached a settlement over a copyright dispute after the rapper was accused of using an uncleared sample of her 1977 hit I Feel Love on his Vultures 1 album.
The Donna Summer estate said West had gone ahead with using the sample despite them explicitly declining him permission previously.
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Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software companyAutonomy founder Scott Painter is spinning out a new company called Autonomy Data Services, or ADS, he tells TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. 
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If You Give A Dev A Tricked Out Xbox, They’ll Patch Halo 2[Ryan Miceli] had spent a few years poring over and reverse-engineering Halo 2 when a friend asked for a favor. His friend created an improved Xbox with significant overclocks, RAM upgrades, BIOS hacks, and a processor swap. The goal was simple: patch the hardcoded maximum resolution from 480p to 720p and maybe even 1080p. With double the CPU clock speed but only a 15% overclock on the GPU, [Ryan] got to work.
Step one was to increase the size of the DirectX framebuffers. Increasing the output resolution introduced severe graphical glitches and rendering bugs. The game reuses the framebuffers multiple times as memory views, and each view encodes a header at the top with helpful information like width, height, and tiling. After patching that, [Ryan] had something more legible, but some models weren’t loading (particularly the water in the title screen). The answer was the texture accumulation layer. The Xbox has a hardware limitation of only sampling four textures per shader pass, which means you need a buffer the size of the render resolution to accumulate the textures if you want to sample more than four textures. Trying to boot the game resulted in an out-of-memory crash. The Xbox [Ryan] was working on had been upgraded with an additional 64MB of RAM, but the memory allocator in Halo 2 wasn’t taking advantage of it. Yet.
To see where the memory was going, [Ryan] wrote a new tool called XboxImageGrabber to show where memory was allocated and by whom. Most games make a few substantial initial allocations from the native allocator, then toss it over to a custom allocator tuned for their game. However, the extra 64MB of RAM was in dev consoles and meant as debug RAM, which meant the GPU couldn’t properly access it. Additionally, between the lower 64MB and upper is the Xbox kernel. Now, it became an exercise of patching the allocator to work with two blobs of memory instead of one contiguous one. It also moved runtime data into the upper 64MB while keeping video allocations in the lower. Ultimately, [Ryan] found it easier to patch the kernel to allow memory allocations the GPU could use in the upper 64MB of memory. Running the game at 720p resulted in only a semi-playable framerate, dropping to 10fps in a few scenes.
After some initial tests, [Ryan] concluded that it wasn’t the GPU or the CPU that was the bottleneck but the swap chain. Halo 2 turns VSync on by default, meaning it has to wait until a blank period before swapping between its two framebuffers. A simple tweak is to add a third frame buffer. The average FPS jumped 10%, and the GPU became the next bottleneck to tweak. With a light GPU overclock, the game was getting very close to 30fps. Luckily for [Ryan], no BIOS tweak was needed as the GPU clock hardware can be mapped and tweaked as an MMIO. After reverse engineering, a debugging feature to visual cache evictions, [Ryan] tuned the texture and geometry cache to minimize pop-ins that the original game was infamous for.
Overall, it’s an incredible hack with months of hard work behind it. The code for the patch is on Github, and there’s a video after the break comparing the patched and unpatched games. If you still need more Halo in your life, why not make yourself a realistic battle rifle from the game?

Moonbounce MusicThere’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in a large space just to hear the sound reflected back? Radio takes this to a whole new level. You can bounce signals from buildings, aircraft, the ionisphere, or even the Moon itself. Humans have been bouncing radio waves from the moon for decades. It’s been used at war, and in peacetime. But [Hainbach] might be the first to use it for music.
Earth Moon Earth or EME communication is quite popular with amateur radio operators. With the right equipment, you can bounce a signal off the moon and hear the echo around 2.5 seconds later. The echo isn’t quite normal though. The moon and the earth are both rotating and moving in relation to each other. This causes Doppler shifts. At higher frequencies, even the craters and surface features of the moon can be heard in the echo.
[Hainbach] spent some time at a learning moonbounce at a large radiotelescope,  He wanted to share this strange audio effect with the world. Unfortunately, most of us don’t have the large microwave dish required for this. The next best thing was to create an application which emulates the sound of a moon bounce. To this end, [Hainbach] created a Moon Echo, an audio plugin that emulates a moonbounce.
Moon Echo was created using sounds from a soprano signer and a double bass. [Hainbach] had to be careful not to be too musical, as ham operators are not allowed to broadcast music. This meant all the tests had to be broken into short non-musical clips. Rolling all this empirical data into a model took quite a bit of work, but the end result is worth it.
If you’d like to learn how to moonbounce yourself, check this article out.

The Complete Guide To Music Marketing 2025 The Complete Guide To Music Marketing, an eBook originally created in 2019, is now in its sixth edition.