Indian music licensing company Novex has launched Velvet Labs, a company that designs and builds music technology products.

There is plenty happening today in the independent-music sector. We’ll start with the official opening up of Absolute Label Services’ Anthology to independent clients.

With shonky metadata and unagreed splits an enduring problem for the music industry, attention has turned in recent times to recording information from the earliest parts of the songwriting and ...

When the Brit Awards moved out of London for the first time in their history this year, it was a big deal for the UK music ...

A series of recent surveys, from The Cost of A Dream to It’s Time to Talk, have highlighted the challenges faced by Indian ...

The US-based Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has held its annual membership meeting, including publishing some new stats on its work.

Spotify India’s annual hip-hop festival Rap 91 Live — named after its flagship playlist for the genre — will return for its ...

Unfortunately, short-notice festival cancellations have become increasingly common in recent years, and one example was the EDM-focused Evolutions Festival in September 2025.

Imminent AI bubble-burst? What imminent AI bubble-burst? The investors in AI company ElevenLabs – the firm behind the Eleven Music which is also working on a separate project with UMG – don’t seem ...

September typically heralds the start of the festive season in India. The last four months of the year are when such major ...

Meta has been making a big noise about its Muse AI agent, but now OpenAI has unveiled its competitor, Dots, at its DevDay 2026 event.

Japanese band Mrs. Green Apple’s global prominence continues with an activation on TikTok this week. The group are getting the platform’s signature ‘in-app hub’ campaign for the release of their new ...