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Aussie acts find global listeners but AI worries linger

Data from music streaming giant Spotify reveals Australian artists are more globally popular than ever, but can they compete with the all-powerful algorithm?

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Netflix series about Spotify’s origins sees resurgence in popularity

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'We're AI,' Popular Indie Rock Band Admits

An indie rock band with more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify has owned up to being an AI-generated music project following days of speculation about whether the group was real.

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“Are You Calling This Genre ‘Straight Pop’?”: JoJo Siwa’s “Trad Wife” Transformation Sparks Fury

JoJo Siwa changed the lyrics of the song ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ onstage to include the name of her boyfriend Chris Hughes, who was watching from the audience.

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3 Tech Stocks Poised for Explosive EPS Growth in 2025

Earnings growth is one of the main drivers for higher stock prices, typically, and this list of 3 high-growth businesses stands to benefit investors.

MarketBeat

The Velvet Sundown explained: What’s behind the Spotify-verified AI band controversy?

Explaining the controversy surrounding The Velvet Sundown - the rock band that lied about being generated by artificial intelligence. How has this empty 'provocation' highlighted Spotify’s alleged dubious practices – chiefly, avoiding paying royalties - and confirmed fears about generative AI?

Euronews

Netflix hidden gem with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unearthed

’Near-perfect’ series is buried deep within streaming service’s library

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‘People want to hear music that’s real’: Why salsa is back in the spotlight

IN FOCUS: From US No 1 albums by Bad Bunny to viral DJ sets by Gia Fu, the 1970s Latin party genre is having a moment. Kate Hutchinson speaks to Fu, Nathy Peluso and more about how salsa has bubbled up from the club underground and into the charts

The Independent UK

Android users can now "Jam" together with this new Spotify feature

Spotify's latest update introduces the popular "Jam" feature to Android Auto, enabling multiple users to collaboratively control music in a vehicle via QR code.

Android Central

Android Auto gets a big Spotify upgrade to make musical journeys more fun

Android Auto gets a Spotify feature to keep your passengers happy.

"Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited

Combining Massive Attack with Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins was always a great elevator pitch

Louder

Dishonored and Prey studio founder thinks Xbox Game Pass "is an unsustainable model" that's been "damaging the industry for a decade"

Arkane's founder reckons the service will "either kill everyone else, or give up"

GamesRadar

Turkey Opens Spotify Probe After 'Provocative Playlist' Complaint

Turkey's competition authority has launched an investigation into Spotify for anti-competitive practices as a deputy minister demanded legal action over "provocative" playlists allegedly offensive to the president's wife and disrespectful of Islam.

International Business Times

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Spotify's suspected AI band to Nothing's first over-ear headphones

Here's the biggest tech news stories from Dyson, Xbox, Dyson, Nothing and more for July 5, 2025.

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The Independent UK

The Velvet Sundown: Everything we know about the band accused of being AI

The band have denied claims that their identity and music are fake

The Independent UK

Fictional K-pop group Saja Boys dethrones BTS on Spotify charts

Villainous group climb to highest US Spotify chart position ever by a K-pop boy band

Euronews

Is Denmark killing the tradition of EU playlists?

As Denmark takes over the rotating EU Council presidency from Poland, it’s hitting pause on one beloved tradition: the national Spotify playlist.

Total Film

We're not getting a Guardians of the Galaxy-style soundtrack in Superman, but James Gunn has made the next best thing: a Spotify playlist for Clark Kent: "I haven't had more fun this year"

James Gunn has made Spotify playlists for the Superman characters

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MusicRadar

"This is exactly what artists have been worried about – it's theft dressed up as competition": Who is behind The Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated band that blew up the internet?

A 'spokesperson' for The Velvet Sundown that gave a statement to Rolling Stone earlier this week has now revealed that he's not affiliated with group

TechRadar

Apple and Spotify are sleepwalking into an AI music crisis – and The Velvet Sundown mess shows they need to act fast

Spotify and Apple’s AI blind spot: The Velvet Sundown is a warning on the dangers of AI music.

MusicRadar

“It’s marketing. It’s trolling”: AI band The Velvet Sundown are an ‘art hoax’, confirms 'spokesman'

But does it matter?

Android Central

Spotify's Discover Weekly turns 10, but gifts you two big updates instead

Spotify celebrated 10 years of Discover Weekly by dropping two updates for users.

Metal Hammer

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

BMTH and Architects approved alt metal, Nordic folk meets extreme metal, kink-inspired industrial metal and the brothers who gave up prog for nu metal: these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025

Louder

"It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake

The Velvet Sundown have come clean

MusicRadar

“We don’t want our music killing people”: Deerhoof just quit Spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s multi-million dollar investment in AI weapons tech

“Spotify is flushing itself down the toilet. Eventually artists will want to leave this already widely hated data-mining scam masquerading as a ‘music company”

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