Twenty One Pilots are set to play an expansive concert inside the popular video game Roblox, the band and game announced on Wednesday. Twenty One Pilots join other marquee artists like Travis Scott, J Balvin and Lil Nas X in performing inside a game, with Lil Nas X also playing …
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I was being puckish when I first wrote that, thanks to Peloton, “fitness classes are the new music festivals” — but it seems the exercise company may have taken me seriously. On Tuesday morning (June 29th), the at-home fitness company announced All For One Music Festival, a three-day, virtual event …
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As video game companies continue to court the music industry, presenting themselves as immersive marketing tools during a largely concertless 2020, Lil Nas X is the latest high-profile act to join the trend: The “Old Town Road” rapper has announced that he will perform a virtual concert on Roblox,one of …
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Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story compared the first-day sales of 2020 Record Store Day, which has been divided into three days, to 2019’s Record Store Day, which took place on one day. This story has been updated to more accurately reflect the comparison. Rolling Stone regrets the …
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This is the third installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first here and the second here. Of Spotify’s thousands of employees, there are few more sought-after by the music …
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What does it mean to be popular? That’s a question that music fans and music makers alike have asked for ages — but recently with more urgency than ever before, as listening patterns in the digital age shift and splinter. There are now dozens of ways to tally listeners’ music …
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Music has been center stage this week at CES 2019, the latest edition of Las Vegas’s international annual consumer electronics bacchanal. As smart speakers and smart home devices become ubiquitous in households around the world, audio-tech companies new and old are now fighting to show off fresh-off-the-line premium technology at …
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On February 10th, 2019, the Staples Center in Los Angeles will light up with the 61st Grammy Awards — a show that contains a number of notable firsts and lasts. It will be the first show where each of the biggest categories have eight nominations instead of five, thanks to …
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