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Jack Antonoff Slams AI Music

Jack Antonoff
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Jack Antonoff has shared some thoughts on AI music:

You don’t have to write music, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring out the band and play it. And yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place. We (myself, the band and everyone I know, frankly) have never been looking for this work to become quicker or easier. We were never frustrated by the randomness and magic it takes. We do it for that exact reason – and without the process itself ::: nothingness.

Dua Lip Sues Samsung

Dua Lipa
Jason Tate

Dua Lipa is suing Samsung for using her image to sell TVs:

The lawsuit includes an image of what it says is the infringing television box. On the box is a photograph of Lipa backstage at Austin City Limits in 2024, which the complaint said is a copyrighted image owned by the singer.

Lipa asserts Samsung has refused to stop using her image despite repeated demands. The electronics company “has been dismissive and callous” to her requests, according to the complaint.

The Spill Canvas in Bus Crash

The Spill Canvas
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The Spill Canvas have started GoFundMe after their tour bus was totaled:

For us, the most immediate impact has been the loss of a significant amount of merchandise, which is a major part of how we sustain ourselves on tour. Losing that inventory, along with damage to gear and equipment, including crushed instrument cases and other touring essentials, has created a serious short term financial gap as we work to keep the tour moving forward.

A claim has been initiated with the trucking company’s insurance, and that process is ongoing. This fundraiser is not intended to replace or interfere with that process, but rather to help cover immediate needs and bridge the gap while everything is being sorted out.

Steve Evetts’s Recording Studio Lost in Fire

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A massive fire has taken Steve Evetts’s recording studio. He posted a video on Instagram.

The Belleville Fire Department said the fire spread to other buildings and added there were several collapses within those buildings.

At one point, firefighters actually ran out of water and had to wait for a delivery, which came in tankers from five different towns and the U.S. Army, Melham said.

Yellowcard Once Again Top the Charts

Yellowcard
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Yellowcard once again have the number one song on Alternative Radio.

The song, from Yellowcard’s 2025 album Better Days and featuring Good Charlotte, marks Yellowcard’s second total and consecutive No. 1 on the list, following the three-week reign of “Better Days” last August-September. The act led the chart 22 years after it first reached Alternative Airplay, then setting a record for the longest wait between an initial appearance and reaching No. 1.

That record stood until now, as “Bedroom Posters” is Good Charlotte’s first leader on any Billboard airplay ranking. The rockers first hit Alternative Airplay in September 2000 with “Little Things” — making it an unprecedented 25 years, seven months and one week between an act’s first appearance on the tally and its first No. 1. (Yellowcard still holds the mark for the longest wait among artists first hitting No. 1 as a lead act.)

Chad Gilbert Talks With People

New Found Glory
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Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory talked with People about his battle with cancer:

Through it all, he remains grateful. “Again, I got my dream in my family, and to have done so many things creatively,” Gilbert says. “We wanted to write songs and music that would inspire people, everyday people who could relate. What’s crazy is through this journey, to this part of my life … as painful as it is, I’m able to inspire people who are going through really tough things in their lives.”

Tim Cook Announces Apple CEO Transition

Apple
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Tim Cook has announced he will step down as CEO of Apple:

This is not goodbye. But at this moment of transition, I wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you. Not on behalf of the company, this time, though there is a wellspring of gratitude for you that overflows inside our walls. But simply on behalf of me. Tim. A person who grew up in a rural place in a different time and, for these magical moments, got to be the CEO of the greatest company in the world. Thank you for the confidence and kindness you’ve shown me. Thank you for saying hi to me on the street and in our stores. Thank you for cheering alongside me when we unveiled a new product or service. Thank you, most of all, for believing in me to lead the company that has always put you at the center of our work. Every day we get up and think about what we can do to make your life a little bit better. And every day, you’ve made mine the best I could have asked for.

I thought Gruber’s take was good:

Cook has transformed Apple in his own image. The company is much more predictable now than it ever was, or could have been, under Jobs. It now runs on an annual schedule that can be printed on a calendar. There is far less drama, and no scandal. And there is seemingly no drama, at all, in this particular transition, despite the incredibly high stakes and the (justifiably) large egos in Apple’s leadership team.

And while true, the success from a pure dollars and cents standpoint is undeniable, I have felt the “magic” missing from the company for a while now. They still make incredible hardware. I still use macOS every single day (but refuse to update to Tahoe). I am excited to see where John Ternus takes them. And please fix Liquid Glass on macOS, it’s an abomination.

Charli XCX Talks New Album

Charli XCX
Jason Tate

Charli XCX talks with Vogue in a new interview:

I take a seat and she walks to the speakers to plug in her phone, wearing skinny vintage black waxed trousers and Louboutin heels. “We knew we wanted to go to Paris to do it,” she says, compulsively playing with her shades. “We knew it would be this very hectic, rich time and we like creating in that kind of atmosphere.” She crouches down, presses play and turns away. Heavily processed guitars strafe the room, then fracture along with Charli’s voice: “I think the dance floor is dead,” she drawls, “so now we’re making rock music.” Clearly we have come to bury Brat.

MUNA Talk With Interview Magazine

MUNA
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MUNA talked to Interview Magazine about their upcoming album:

RUSSELL: How do you address the tension between wanting to make really horny music as we’re becoming really puritanical as a culture? 

MASKIN: That is the thesis of the record.

MCPHERSON: I don’t think we can begin to address it because we’re in it. The only thing that we can try to do is present that cognitive dissonance in the piece. It’ll only become clear to us really what it really means years from now. But the record is about feeling this incredible amount of untapped frustration, horniness, or romantic longing, but under the dark cloud of the moment that we’re living in. 

Spotify AI Hijacking Expands to Jazz

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Digital Music News:

Numerous jazz musicians, including American pianist Jason Moran, and Danish musicians Carsten Dahl, Thomas Blachman, and Chris Minh Doky, face a deluge of AI-generated tracks—often entirely unrelated to their own work—uploaded to their official streaming profiles without consent.

“There’s not even a piano player on this whole damn record,” Moran, the former artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center, remarked on an EP titled For You. The fake album appeared on his Spotify profile and was brought to his attention by another musician friend. “It wasn’t even remotely close to anything I would make.”