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Björk has joined the ‘No Music For Genocide’ campaign, making her back catalogue unavailable on streaming services in Israel. The new campaign is a cultural boycott initiative encouraging artists and rights-holders to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. To join the coalition, the artists involved have edited their own release territories or sent geo-block …

YouTube has a new Labs program, allowing listeners to “discover the next generation of YouTube.” In case you were wondering, that generation is apparently all about AI. The streaming site says Labs will offer a glimpse of the AI features it’s developing for YouTube Music, and it starts with AI “hosts” that will chime in while you’re listening to music. …

Review | I took the new AirPods for a run. They did a lot more than play music.  The Washington Post Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Still The Best for iOS  WIRED AirPods Pro 3 vs. AirPods 4 With Active Noise Cancellation: The Choice Is Easy  PCMag I just put the AirPods Pro 3 in my audiophile ears — here’s my first impressions  Tom’s …

YouTube is adding AI hosts to radio and mixes in the YouTube Music app as part of a new test available through its new Labs program. The hosts are designed to “deepen your listening experience by sharing relevant stories, fan trivia, and fun commentary about your favorite music,” YouTube says in a blog post. If you want to see if …

YouTube Labs is a “new way for users to take our cutting edge AI experiments for a test drive.”  For some time now, youtube.com/new has allowed YouTube Premium subscribers to test upcoming features ahead of time before the stable rollout, like more playback speed options. YouTube Labs is focused solely on “exploring the potential of AI on YouTube.” Be among …

When it’s not trying to fend off lawsuits from major record labels, Suno is still working on refining its AI music creation tool. The latest model, Suno v5, is an obvious technical improvement over its previous version, v4.5+. But it still can’t seem to escape the bland emptiness that pervades most AI art. There are some across-the-board upgrades in audio …

Is this just another troll? Doja Cat’s new album is titled Vie – French for “life” – and the original artwork (changed at the last minute) features the 29-year-old Angeleno surrounded by roses, ever the picture of congeniality. Doja has become known, in recent years, as mainstream pop’s master agitator: she tells her superfans to “get off your phone, get …

Not long after “America’s Got Talent” host Terry Crews read her name aloud and declared her the winner of the show’s 20th season, after the confetti fell all around her as she began to cry, Jessica Sanchez hopped on a live video to thank her fans and process this big moment. Sanchez is nine months pregnant. Although it was late …

Bad Bunny closed out his historic 31-night residency at San Juan’s El Choli on Sunday with a massive finale show that the whole world could watch online. The Puerto Rican superstar brought out Marc Anthony for an emotional duet, partied with Jowell & Randy, and paid tribute to the island’s rich history during a nearly four-hour show. On Monday, Amazon …

Police say singer is cooperating with authorities in the investigation. The United States singer David Anthony Burke, known by his stage name d4vd, appears to have cancelled the remaining stops on his US and European tours amid the growing fallout from an investigation into a decomposing body of a missing teenager found in the boot of a car. Ticketmaster, which …