Universal Music Group Inks ‘Expanded Global Agreement’ With Meta, Including WhatsApp Licensing and Efforts to Address ‘Unauthorized AI-Generated Content’ - Music news - NewsLocker (2024)

Universal Music Group (UMG) has inked an “expanded global agreement” – including a framework for addressing “unauthorized AI-generated content” – with Facebook and Instagram parent Meta. The renewed pact’s formal announcement arrived this morning, weeks after the major label shed light on adjustments to its relationship with Meta. Facebook, UMG said during its Q2 earnings […]

Watch St. Vincent sing the National Anthem and demonstrate basketball skills at LA Sparks game

St. Vincent sang the American national anthem at a Los Angeles Sparks game this week, shortly after showing off her own basketball skills.Read More:St. Vincent live in London: a vicious, tender protest in the face of despairThe musician – real name Annie Clark – performed the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ before the WNBA game at the Crypto.com Arena on Thursday (August 15).
Before that, she sent out a preview of her performance on social media, seemingly from backsta

New Found Glory, Bowling For Soup, Plain White T’s and more for official Disney pop punk covers album

New Found Glory, Bowling For Soup and Plain White T’s are among the artists set to contribute songs to an all pop-punk Disney covers album.
‘A Whole New Sound’ will be released on September 6 and will be made up of classic songs from the Disney songbook reimagined by pop-punk groups.
Other artists involved in the project include Simple Plan, Meet Me @ The Altar, Magnolia Park and Yellowcard.
The latest single to be shared from the compilation is New Found Glory’s version

Bob Dylan to Cover ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ for Ronald Reagan Biopic

Gene Simmons, Clint Black and Tanya Tucker also provide music for Dennis Quaid-starring film

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart reunite for 2025 European tour

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have announced a series of comeback shows for next year, their first sincesplitting up five years ago.Read More:Album Review: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Fortuna Pop!)The band officially announced that they had broken up in November 2019, with frontman Kip Berman writing on Instagram that his life had “changed radically” since the band first formed in 2007 and that he had decided to focus on other projects.
The group a

Leon Bridges announces North American tour for autumn 2024

Leon Bridges has announced a North American tour to take pace this autumn, in support of his upcoming album ‘Leon’ –see all the dates below.
Earlier this month, Bridges announced details of his fourth studio album, and shared the record’s sun-drenched lead single ‘Peaceful Place’, which you can listen to below.
The album is due to come out on October 4 via Columbia and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Now, he has shared information of a North American

Meet the Zoomer Jokester Behind These Skibidi Toilet Classic Rock Covers

Kenan Salazar, 23, remakes songs by Steely Dan, the Eagles, and more with nonsensical online slang lyrics. The results are bizarrely catchy

Muscadine Bloodline Dodged a Mainstream Country Career. That’s a Good Thing

The Alabama duo of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton are opening for Turnpike Troubadours, looking inward, and staying fiercely independent

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Pale Waves deal in rejection on dreamy new single ‘Gravity’

Pale Waves have shared a new single ‘Gravity — check it out below.READ MORE:TheNMEBig Read – Pale Waves: “We’ve become the most resilient band we know”The song serves as the third preview of the Manchester band’s fourth album ‘Smitten’, which is due for release on September 20 via Dirty Hit (pre-order/pre-save here).
Built around bright, dreamy guitar strums, ‘Gravity”s optimistic soundscape contradicts the moodi

Kaytranada raises the curtain on All Points East 2024

KAYTRANADA, Tems, Victoria Monét, Thundercat, and Tkay Maidza launched Uber One Presents All Points East 2024 in electrifying fashion

Woman charged in alleged scheme to fraudulently sell Elvis’s Graceland

A woman has been federally charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft following an alleged attempt to fraudulently sell Elvis Presley‘s Graceland earlier this year.READ MORE:Sofia Coppola on baring Elvis’ ugly side in ‘Priscilla’: “I never wanted him to be a villain”Lisa Jeanine Findley, a 53-year-old woman from Missouri, was arrested for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, Presley’s mansion locate

Fire breaks out at Somerset House in London

A fire has broken out at London’s Somerset House.
Around 100 firefighters and 15 engines have been deployed by London Fire Brigade to the art and culture venue in the Strand, central London.
Images of a blaze began to circulate on social media around midday today (17 August), after thick smoke was spotted as far as the south side of the Thames.
London Fire Brigade confirmed reports that the historical building was on fire, sharing on Twitter/X that ten fire engines and around 70 firefighte

Watch Maggie Rogers perform a karaoke cover of Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ at Adele World

Maggie Rogers performed a cover of Natasha Bedingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ for unsuspecting concert-goers at Adele‘s Munich residency last night. Check it out below.READ MORE: Maggie Rogers – ‘Don’t Forget Me’ review: wistful road trip record acts as a sonic rebootRogers is in Munich to open for Coldplay tonight (17 August) on their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour — which was today announced as the highest-grossing rock tour of all time.
Be

Watch Blue Man Group cover My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ after one listen

Blue Man Group recently performed a chaotic rendition of My Chemical Romance‘s ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’. Check it out below.READ MORE:My Chemical Romance’s new song ‘The Foundations of Decay’ is a fierce, fearless returnThe attempt took place as the mysterious group appeared on the latest episode of Drumeo’s ongoing For The First Time series – which sees famous faces come into the studio and attempt to immediately play a song on drums as

Watch Taylor Swift give ‘London Boy’ its ‘Eras Tour’ debut live at Wembley Stadium

Taylor Swift surprised fans in Wembley Stadium last night (August 16) by playing ‘London Boy’ for the first time on her ‘Eras Tour’. Check out the footage and the full setlist below.READ MORE:Taylor Swift live in Edinburgh: The ‘Eras Tour’ finally hits the UKSwift is currently halfway through her five-night ‘Eras’ tour run at Wembley Stadium which kicked off on August 15 and will wrap up on August 20.
For last night’s surprise track, sh

Coldplay score biggest rock tour of all time

Coldplay‘s ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour is officially the highest-grossing rock tour ever.READ MORE:Coldplay live at Glastonbury 2024: Worthy Farm’s house band become “100,004 people” strongAccording to Billboard Boxscore, the British band’s current tour has grossed $945.7 million and sold 8.8 million tickets since it began in March 2022, making it both the highest-earning and best-selling rock tour since Boxscore‘s records began 40 years ago.

Suzi Quatro and Brocarde are psychic 'soul sisters'

After they met at the Wacken Open Air Festival, rock legend Suzi Quatro has said she shared a psychic connection with singer Brocarde.

Olivia Rodrigo sleeps for 13 hours a day and binge watches TV on tour

Olivia Rodrigo has revealed what she gets up to on the road when she's not rocking the stage.

LL Cool J 'open' to making biopic about his life

LL Cool J isn't against the idea but it doesn't particularly appeal to him either.

Shawn Mendes joins Coldplay on stage in Munich

Last night, multi-platinum, GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes joined Coldplay on stage at their show in Munich

Twenty One Pilots debut The Clancy World Tour with career-spanning setlist

Last night, GRAMMY® Award winning duo Twenty One Pilots kicked off their biggest global headlining run ever– The Clancy World Tour

Demi Lovato reveals 'guilt' over problematic behaviour as a child star

The singer explained she was traumatised by the experience of working from a young age.

Woman arrested over alleged attempt to steal Elvis Presley's Graceland

Lisa Jeanine Findley is accused of trying to extort the late singer's family.

See Taylor Swift Debut ‘London Boy’ DuringEras Tour Show at Wembley

She played the Lover track for her second night at Wembley Stadium

Sonos Confirms 100-Employee Layoff Round, Underscores ‘Continued Commitment to the App Recovery’

On the heels of a poorly received app redesign that prompted an apology from CEO Patrick Spence, Sonos has confirmed a new round of layoffs affecting about 100 employees. Spence himself acknowledged the personnel reduction in a statement, following various reports on the layoffs and related LinkedIn posts from impacted individuals. “We made the difficult […]

Young Thug Trial: It Was a Wild Week of Testimony From Key Witness

Kenneth "Woody" Copeland returned to the stand at Young Thug's RICO trial in Atlanta, and it was another muddled mess

The-Dream Calls Sexual Assault Lawsuit ‘False and Defamatory’

The hit producer called for the court to toss the case, two months after a woman accused him of sexual and physical abuse

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For twenty-five years, Great White kept touring and making records — long after their glory days had passed

De La Soul Offers ‘Pay-What-You-Want’ Ticket Prices for Upcoming New York Show

De La Soul implements a ‘pay what you want’ ticketing model for their upcoming show in New York City. Hip-hop group De La Soul is offering a choose-your-own-price ticketing model for their upcoming show at the Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in New York City. The event is set to take place on January 17 […]

Tributes paid after Houston underground rap legend BeatKing dies, age 39

BeatKing, one of the most influential underground figures in Houston rap music, has died at the age of 39.
The news was confirmed by BeatKing’s manager Tasha Felder on Instagram on Thursday night (August 15), who invoked his moniker Club Godzilla, writing: ”Today, August 15, 2024 we have lost @Clubgodzilla.”
“BeatKing has been the best part of the club for over a decade,” she added. “He has produced and worked with so many artists, that his sound will forever