The AI music startup, Suno, has raised an additional $400 million:
Suno Inc., a startup that enables people to make music using artificial intelligence, has raised $400 million at a valuation of $5.4 billion.
Suno Now Valued at $5.4 Billion
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Death Cab for Cutie Talks With Rolling Stone
Death Cab for Cutie talked with Rolling Stone:
I Built You a Tower will be released under ANTI Records, Epitaph’s sister label. For Death Cab, the return to an indie is a homecoming of sorts. “It felt so refreshing to be back in a room with people that were culturally of our world,” Gibbard says, recalling the first meeting with Epitaph owner Brett Gurewitz and former head of A&R Alison Crutchfield. “I can really count on one hand in the 20 years at Atlantic the number of people that we felt we had some true similar musical vocabulary” he adds, “It feels like we’ve landed back in a place that we feel very comfortable at.”
The All-American Rejects Talk With Rock Sound
The All-American Rejects talked with Rock Sound:
Well for starters, there was no big budget from a record label, so we recorded and produced the album ourselves in our individual creative spaces – Tyson [Ritter, frontman] in Tulsa, Scott [Chesak, former keyboard player] in Austin, and me in my studio in Nashville. Even though we were limited because of budget and geography, it was freeing to create something without the outside voices of A&R or anyone else for that matter. No pressure to write another ‘Gives You Hell’ or ‘Move Along’. We got to make the record that we wanted to make – as that band, but from where we are in our lives now.
MUNA Talk With Rolling Stone
MUNA talked with Rolling Stone about their latest album:
McPherson: You can’t help but react against what you’ve previously worked on, whether you’ve had success or not. With “Silk,” there of course is fear. This has been happening to us since the beginning of our career. We’re always like, “What if this is the best moment of our lives and then everything else after this sucks?” Since we toured with Harry Styles, we were like, “What if this is the peak?” You never know. We have to accept that, but what we are in control of is making music that we think is good. It would have been a very fear-based scarcity mentality thing to do to try to recreate “Silk Chiffon” another 11 times and see which one sticks.
Spotify Announces New Partnerships
Spotify has made a bunch of new announcements. They’ve partnered with Live Nation:
Spotify said that starting in the U.S. this summer, select artists will be able to use Reserved to set aside tickets for fans on the platform. The platform has partnered with Live Nation on the program as part of a multiyear agreement. The platform will use streams, shares and other types of activity to “identify an artist’s most dedicated fans and hold two tour tickets for them.”
And they have a new agreement with UMG to let users create AI covers and remixes:
[W]ill enable Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters.
The tool will be powered by generative AI technology that the announcement states “will open up additional revenue streams and new ways to drive discovery.”
Daisy Grenade Talk New EP
Daisy Grenade talked with Rock Sound about their new EP:
I think when we started this band, we didn’t know really what we wanted, or what we wanted it to feel like or sound like, and we were just kind of open to trying everything. We knew where our influences were coming from, but we didn’t know what felt like the best way to express that, and as we’ve grown and changed, we’re closer to what we want. Some of these songs we’ve been sitting on for two plus, almost three years, and I think it was just time that we put our foot down and say this is what we are going to do. Our sound is very eclectic because it comes from a million different places, and we don’t necessarily feel like we fit in one genre, but the musical landscape we’re in right now is so genre-less. And regardless, we don’t really give a fuck what label people put on this. We want to put out the songs we want to put out.
Red Hot Chili Peppers Sell Music Catalog
Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their music catalog:
The Red Hot Chili Peppers has sold its recorded music catalog to Warner Music Group (WMG) for more than $300 million, a source confirms with Billboard. The company purchased the catalog via its $1.2 billion joint venture with Bain Capital, which is aimed at acquiring both recorded music and publishing rights.
Steve Evetts’s Recording Studio Lost in Fire
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 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.)
Tyson Ritter Names His Top 5 Vocalists
Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects talked about his top five favorite vocalists.
Okay, low-hanging fruit. Of course I think Freddie Mercury is such a rock and roll archetype. He had the fastest vibrato in recorded sound, he was operatic, expressive, and I think every guy in a rock band wants to achieve even 5% of his capability in even a sentence of prose.
Blog: The People Do Not Yearn for Automation
Nilay Patel, writing at the Verge:
[S]oftware brain has ruled the business world for a long time. AI has just made it easier than ever for more people to make more software than ever before — for every kind of business to automate big chunks of itself with software. It’s everywhere: the absolute cutting edge of advertising and marketing is automation with AI. It’s not being a creative.
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.
Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for automation. I’m a full-on smart home sicko; the lights and shades and climate controls of my house are automated in dozens of ways. But huge companies like Apple, Google and Amazon have struggled for over a decade now to make regular people care about smart home automation at all. And they just don’t.
A thought provoking article that I quite enjoyed.
How Does Shazam Work?
Shri Khalpada breaking down how Shazam works:
Computers can flip the script. Instead of asking ”which song matches this sequence of sounds?”, the phone asks ”for each of these sounds, which songs contain them?” for each hash in the clip. It’s the same idea as the index at the back of a book: rather than re-reading every page to find a word, you jump to the word’s entry and see every page it lives on.
This essentially makes the lookup operation O(1)O(1), meaning it takes roughly the same amount of time whether you have 100 songs or 100 million. More precisely, the phone goes straight to each hash’s address rather than scanning through songs, and the number of possible hashes is large enough that each address only contains a handful of entries, even across millions of songs.
Spotify AI Hijacking Expands to Jazz
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.”
Katy Perry Under Investigation in Australia
A police investigation is underway in Australia after Katy Perry was accused of sexual assault by Ruby Rose.
The Victoria Police said in a statement to Variety: “Melbourne sexual offenses and child abuse investigation team (SOCIT) detectives are investigating [an alleged] historical sexual assault that occurred in Melbourne in 2010. Police have been told the incident occurred at a licensed premises in Melbourne’s CBD. As the investigation remains ongoing, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.”
Ticketmaster Teams Up With ChatGPT
Ticketmaster now has an app within ChatGPT:
The integration sits inside ChatGPT‘s Apps Directory, where users can connect the Ticketmaster app and activating it by starting prompts with @Ticketmaster. From there, fans can ask about local concerts, upcoming games or events, and receive interactive listings based on their questions. When they’re ready to buy, they’re redirected to Ticketmaster’s marketplace to complete the transaction.