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Americana was kind of underdog music when I got engaged with it in the late 1990s, and it has achieved a scope and scale I couldn’t have foreseen. In the mid 2000s, the annual AmericanaFest convention featured a rotating cast of familiar core artists year after year at a handful of venues in the core of Nashville. Then, like Music City itself, the styles of music under the Americana umbrella – if not the format per se – caught a cultural wave.

With arena-filling artists and major festival acts like this year’s Trailblazer Award winners the Avett Brothers and bluegrass star

The driver’s seat of a Seat Ibiza was Blanca Vergara’s first recording studio. Three years ago, during the Covid-19 pandemic and the TikTok boom, the artist began uploading covers of other people’s songs from her car. Now her account has more than 30 million likes and she has signed a deal with Warner Music. The 22-year-old from the Spanish island of Mallorca is part of a new talent pool that the social media app has given prominence to. The sound of this generation is characterized by a pattern: pop music with a youthful touch that is reminiscent of the

JBL is the number one global audio brand by units sold. The company has been around for 77 years and was responsible for adding the soundtrack to the first motion pictures with synchronised sound. Fast forward to 2023 and approximately 50% of cinemas around the world employ JBL sound systems. 

JBL also has a long relationship with the music industry. Its two-way studio monitors are integral to countless commercial recording complexes and home studios, while JBL’s portable Bluetooth speakers are a fixture of many home audio set-ups.

JBL’s product range continues to grow – the latest additions to the JBL family are

For the second part of this month’s exploration of music and the brain, James Tytko spoke with Alexander Jensenius from the University of Oslo’s Department of Musicology…

James – Thank you so much for joining me, Alexander. We’re exploring music in this episode of Naked Neuroscience, looking at some of the emerging technologies being developed to compose songs. We’re going to talk about how this relates to your work a bit later. Specifically, you use motion capture technology, as I understand, to help compose music, a really interesting idea. But first, I think before we get there, we have

Dr. Martens is focused on community, channeling its heritage towards uplifting creatives worldwide. Its UK branch is compelled by innovation, teaming up with London-based music platform SBTV to champion three rising artists.

Jamal Edwards‘ SBTV has spearheaded the careers of chart-topping artists for decades, including Ed Sheeran, Dave, J Hus, AJ Tracey, and Krept & Konan. Dr. Martens’ SBTV collaboration allows emerging artists to shine bright, endorsing up-and-coming talent across live performance sessions. The

Following a transformative first two years providing invaluable guidance and mentorship to emerging women and non-binary musicians, Next Jazz Legacy is thrilled to announce that they will be accepting applications for their 2024 cycle beginning on August 31st. Applications will be due by October 16, 2023, and will be submitted at New Music USA’s website here.

Focused on increasing opportunities for musicians most underrepresented in the art form, the three-year, national program launched by New Music USA and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice – is a partnership

APPLETON – For the last decade, Mile of Music has introduced music lovers to hundreds of artists and bands “who are not household names but should be.”

According to its website, Mile of Music’s mission has been to “highlight homegrown talent and recruit the best emerging artists from all over the U.S.”

Because of this, the festival has traditionally brought in small, independent artists, but the early years of the festival featured some critically acclaimed performers, bringing names folk and country music lovers are likely to recognize.

Here are some of the biggest artists

• Honda is the official automotive partner of 88rising’s Head in the Clouds Festival Aug. 5-6 in Pasadena, California
• Honda Double Happiness Stage to host unforgettable performances by Stephanie Poetri, Phum Viphurit, Spence Lee and more
• The first Honda and 88rising apparel collaboration, “88 Type R” will launch at Head in the Clouds and online at 88nightmarket

Honda is partnering with 88rising – the pioneering global music and media company representing the best of Asian music talent in America – to create memorable experiences for music fans, while providing 88rising’s breakthrough artists a larger platform to pursue

Japanese violinist Kyoka Misawa is excitedly preparing for her first visit to La Jolla.

She is part of Quartet Integra, one of two groups chosen by the La Jolla Music Society’s Fellowship Artist Program to participate in the annual SummerFest chamber music festival which opened Friday, July 28, and runs through Saturday, Aug. 26, in La Jolla.

Each year, musicians apply and audition before two groups are selected for the fellowship program, which offers emerging classical artists the opportunity to perform with seasoned chamber musicians and receive coaching during SummerFest workshops.

Fellowship artist alumni have gone on to win major awards and competitions,

In 2020, 18-year-old Billie Eilish’s alternative pop album that was created in her Los Angeles bedroom helped her become the youngest act to sweep the top four categories at the Grammys.

A year later, the pop-rock sound of Olivia Rodrigo made her a global superstar and the poster child for modern teen angst. That same year, fellow 17-year-old The Kid LAROI topped the charts with his Justin Bieber-assisted banger “Stay.” And in 2022, Yahritza Martínez, of the trio Yahritza