Twitch may be finding ways to offer legal music for livestreams, but it’s not enough for some in the music industry. Variety has learned that the RIAA, Recording Academy and over a dozen groups have ...

Twitch today is introducing a new tool, Soundtrack by Twitch, that will allows it creators to add licensed music within their streams. The feature, which has been in development over the past year, is ...

In 2018, Twitch streamer Ryann Weller played a 30-second snippet of 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” on one of his livestreams. He showed viewers an animated e-card featuring his fans’ faces dancing to the 2003 ...

When Twitch was hit with mass strikes over copyrighted music in June, it sent content creators into a panic storm. Since 2014, Twitch has been working in partnership with Audible Magic to scan Twitch ...

Tracy Chan has spent his career in jobs that never existed in the old music industry. The music-tech entrepreneur started as a product manager at YouTube, then launched his own company, CrowdAlbum, a ...

Twitch is giving gamers a new way to spice up their “let’s play” videos and live shows. The popular video game streaming platform today announced it’s offering a library of free-to-use music to ...

When Spotify announced last month that it was finally giving fans a way to directly “tip” artists, it was largely met with approval from the artist community. Spotify’s move represented one of the ...

This is a sad day for a large portion of Twitch's music community. Twitch brought joy to many singers when it opened the doors to Twitch Sings, a karaoke-like game created in conjunction with the ...

This post has been updated to include the entire article. It was originally to be published in two parts. Music creators (songwriters and performing artists) and rights’ owners (music publishers and ...

If the phrase “live improvised music” sounds as dry as the dust kicked off an old hacky-sack, do Szun Waves ever have a surprise for you. New Hymn To Freedom, the English trio’s second album, is a ...

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