Travelling teacher brings instrumental music to regional schools
Tina Greenfield drives 350 kilometres each week to teach music to students at five schools in regional Queensland. ⌘ Read more

Alter Boy’s NRG is up for vocalist of the year — yet he doesn’t sing
Luke Eastman’s interpretation work using Auslan in the band Alter Boy is recognised in this year’s WA Music Awards, with a nomination for vocalist of the year. ⌘ Read more

Fragile, inconvenient and low quality: Why are cassettes back in vogue?
For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. ⌘ Read more

Strictly stars gear up for Musicals week as final looms
There are just two weeks left in the contest, and things are heating up on the ballroom floor. ⌘ Read more

Beer box musician and land rights champion: Ted Egan’s ‘big and generous life’
A former Government House occupant and a prolific author and historian, Ted Egan will also be remembered as the man who reinvented the beer box as a musical instrument. ⌘ Read more

Breaking: Former NT administrator, musician and author Ted Egan dies aged 93
Folk music legend, author and former Northern Territory Administrator Ted Egan has died aged 93. ⌘ Read more

Sabrina Carpenter slams White House for using her song in ICE video
Two-time Grammy winner Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using her song in a social media post about ICE raids, telling the Trump administration to never involve her in their “inhumane agenda”. ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court Hears Copyright Battle Over Online Music Piracy
The Supreme Court appears inclined to side with Cox Communications in a major copyright case, suggesting that ISPs shouldn’t be held liable for users’ music piracy based solely on “mere knowledge,” given the risk of forcing outages for universities, hospitals, and other large customers. The New York Times reports: Leading music labels and publishers who … ⌘ Read more

Another music festival canned as ‘numbers no longer stack up’
Park Waves festival, set for February 2026, has been cancelled amid economic challenges, joining a growing list of scrapped Australian music events. ⌘ Read more

How music venues and stages are becoming more accessible for people with disability
Going to a concert can be hard for people with disability. But sensory concerts and bringing lived experience on stage can open up this world for everyone. ⌘ Read more

Victorian music festival cancelled at last minute due to fire safety, permit problems
A festival that has been running for 30 years has been cancelled just days before it was due to begin. ⌘ Read more

The 10 albums our critics couldn’t stop listening to in November
Sensitive song-smiths, reinvented boy bands, rock and rap upstarts — it’s all here in an Ausmusic Month edition of the best new music. ⌘ Read more

Viral Song Created with Suno’s genAI Removed From Streaming Platforms, Re-Released With Human Vocals
An EDM song by the British group Haven ran into trouble in October after it shared clips of upcoming song “I Run” on TikTok.

The song “was an overnight viral sensation online,” writes Digital Music News — racking up millions of plays “even before it hit streaming serv … ⌘ Read more

Parents fear music exam ‘gold standard’ slipping in parts of Australia
It is held up as the “gold standard” of music testing in the country, but there are claims the Australian Music Examinations Board is letting down talented students. ⌘ Read more

Why King Gizzard defied Spotify, then embraced orchestras and raves
Their rock, rave and orchestral music attracts a cult global following. But the prolific, chaotic King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are just “at peace with failing”. ⌘ Read more

ABC Classic’s curated Christmas list has music for everyone
ABC Classic’s Christmas music selection has everyone covered, whether you’re a fan of choirs, orchestras, Christmas movies, operas, musicals or video games. ⌘ Read more

Think you know Aussie music? Prove it in our quiz
Celebrate Ausmusic T-Shirt Day with our Australian music trivia quiz. How well do you know your local legends? ⌘ Read more

Warner Music Group Partners With Suno To Offer AI Likenesses of Its Artists
Warner Music Group has reached a licensing deal with Suno that will let users create AI-generated music using the voices and likenesses of artists who opt in. WMG says participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used. “These will be new creation experiences from artists who do opt in, … ⌘ Read more

Udio Users Can’t Download Their AI Music Creations Anymore
An anonymous reader shares a report: As part of the settlement with Universal, Udio has amended its terms of service, and users can no longer download their outputs. This has AI music makers furious, and with good reason. Unfortunately, they have little recourse, as the contract they sign when creating a Udio account includes a waiver of the right to … ⌘ Read more

Google Mocks iPhone in Musical ‘Wicked’ Ad Claiming Pixel Firsts
Google this week shared a new ad in its ongoing anti-Apple “BestPhonesForever” series, this time leaning into the launch of the new Wicked: For Good movie that’s out in theaters.

The spot features an iPhone fawning over a Pixel smartphone before breaking into the Wicked: For Good song. Google suggests that it was first to multiple features that the ‌iPhone‌ then copied, like screening phone calls an … ⌘ Read more

Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools. Klay is the first music AI service to reach a deal with all three major record labels, … ⌘ Read more

We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age
Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life ⌘ Read more

‘Holy Winamp! Opera Puts a Music Visualizer Inside Its Browser’
An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World:

It won’t whip the llama’s ass, but Opera has added a Spotify visualizer to its latest iteration of its free Opera One browser. Known as Sonic, the visualizer will be part of Opera’s Dynamic Themes, which use the WebGPU standard to employ a dynamic theme that runs in the background of the … ⌘ Read more

AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart
Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News reports: The new country tune, “Walk my Walk” by Breaking Rust, recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3 million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered mixed rea … ⌘ Read more

iOS 26.2 Available Next Month With These 8 New Features
Apple released the first iOS 26.2 beta last week. The upcoming update includes a handful of new features and changes on the iPhone, including a new Liquid Glass slider for the Lock Screen’s clock, offline lyrics in Apple Music, and more.

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In a recent [press release](https://www.apple.com/ie/newsroom/20 … ⌘ Read more

The Algorithm Failed Music
An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren’t necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify’s goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to … ⌘ Read more

Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent “some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression,” according to the … ⌘ Read more

‘Nintendo Has Too Many Apps’
The Verge’s Ash Parrish writes: Nintendo has released a new store app on Android and iOS giving users the ability to purchase hardware, accessories, and games for the Switch and Switch 2. When I open my phone and scroll down to the N’s, I get a neat, full row dedicated entirely to Nintendo. That’s four apps: the Switch app, the music app, the Nintendo Today news app, and now the store. (The tally increases to five if … ⌘ Read more

We’re 2 functions away to be able to build a legit music player out of vim ⌘ Read more

Who goes to the ballet? Education and social connections matter more than income, study finds
Why do some people regularly attend the opera, visit art galleries, or go to classical music concerts—while others rarely, if ever, do? ⌘ Read more

Ace Frehley Has Died
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Strudel REPL - a music live coding environment living in the browser
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** Fall foliage, music, games, and text editors **
Turning to fall. While playing a little squash this morning one of the pros that hangs out at the courts asked if he could give me and one of my kids some tips. He then proceeded to spend 40 mins or so with us. It was honestly rad. Totally changed how I approach playing squash in that little time. I’m excited to play more this winter.

I’m also excited for the new The Last Dinner Party album to come out in a f … ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: 2025-09-30 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem
The first time I DJed for a Contra Dance1 was at Inman Park’s
famous Trolley Barn.
At the time I was DJing in the way other social dances are normally DJed: I had
a laptop, I played a song, everyone danced.
No fancy mixing, or effects: the most technical thing I did was loop 32 bar
sections of music to stretch it out until the caller was ready to end the dance.

This time around, returning to … ⌘ Read more

Winemaking music lover to focus on health after blood cancer diagnosis
WA vigneron Rob Wignall, who built a legacy of award-winning Great Southern wines and star-studded music festivals, says it is time to move on. ⌘ Read more

Internet Archive Reaches Secret Settlement with Universal Music
Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle, was the final hold-out in reaching a settlement. ⌘ Read more

Made this a few weeks ago, just listened to it again and I quite like it:

https://www.uninformativ.de/music/2025-1-ebow/Fog.ogg

This is just one instrument: Electric bass guitar + EBow. And echo/delay on top. But it’s a single track, single take. It amazes me quite a bit how much you can do with that little thing. 🤯

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and when suzuki airi world domination comes, you can consider yourselves ready because i showed you this video ;)

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Weekend! Whooo 🤣 Having a few too many glassses of 🍷 listening to music on Youtube and playing Chess which I haven’t been playing much lately 😢

This genre is great for background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n–SX54AUZU

i love pinkpantheress so much she’s so cute and fun and tapped into every aesthetic and dance music sound i love. if you like house and garage and D&B music, check her out!!!! she absolutely knows her shit too btw she’s sampled basement jaxx and adam F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo_lPnBlfto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWXqLSr4ZM

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i linked the normal length edit instead of the full 15 minute music video because i’m not gonna subject you all to that amount of my bullshit

(…15 minute version is a great watch though)

hacking jetbrains mono to include CJK characters from a noto font for stupid purposes (i listen to asian music and my conky sidebar has a lastfm widget so sometimes it shows asian text and jetbrains doesn’t render those. so i am frankensteining my way into making it do that)

Photos taken inside musical instruments
Article URL: https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139626](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=441 … ⌘ Read more

My music listening is inconsistent. I don’t listen to much music, sometimes weeks without any music streaming at all. And when I do, I often listen to some automatic playlists with recommendations from YouTube. I don’t have any specific artists I always listen too. Furthermore, I don’t even have a specific genre I like the most, often it’s something electronic. ⌘ Read more

10 Bands That Originally Had Terrible Names
Choosing a name is a fairly important part of starting a band. Ideally, the name should give listeners a sense of the group before they’ve even heard any music. While some bands manage to choose the perfect name right away, others try out a few options before finding one that sticks. Here are 10 bands […]

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How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read More ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s an interesting premise in that article:

The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.

This is like saying it’s pointless to make music yourself because some professional player/audio engineer does a better job. Really, there’s always someone or something that’s better than you at a particular job.

If we focus too much on “competition”, then yes, you can just stop doing anything. I don’t know how common this mindset is, especially among artists or creative people. 🤔 I would have assumed that many writers, for example, simply enjoy the process of writing. Am I being too naive once more? 🤣

Ten Animals That Are More Musical Than You Might Think
The animal kingdom is a hotbed of shocking musical talent. Take the elephant harmonica players, for example, or the bats with death metal growls. While some species might be content to whip up some awful din, these critters develop rhythms, sing like humans, and in the case of the palm cockatoo, even whittle their own […]

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