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Artificial intelligence (Ai) is a wonderful tool that can be used to enhance the creativity of any musician, songwriter or producer, but it’s also so new that it treads on areas of copyright that haven’t been fully established yet. Much of this is because the last update to U.S. copyright law was the Digital Millennium Act way back in 1998, which was drafted before internet distribution and streaming. Indeed, the […]

The first weekend of September is full of blood, guts, and gore. All five films we’re highlighting this weekend are pretty brutal affairs. We have the Denzel Washington-led Equalizer threequel, a bloody spoof of high school comedies, and two ultraviolent, indie horror films that are most definitely not for the faint of heart. It isn’t even October yet, but the Halloween season seems to already be upon us! Bottoms (In […]

On my latest podcast episode: Independent audio producer, NPR contributor, National Geographic Explorer and founder of Eco Location Sound Bill McQuay talks about telling stories with sound, going around the world to capture audio, helping scientists use sound to understand the world, his setup for recording spatial audio, how sound is determining if insects are disappearing or not, and much more. BMI may be acquired and its songwriters are not […]

Among its incredible vistas and high-alpine charm, Aspen, Colorado is also known to be expensive and inaccessible to most. The Raizado Festival is looking to change that. The premise of the festival is simple: to bring together Latino changemakers and to uplift the workers who often serve as the backbone of Aspen’s thriving leisure economy. In 2022, during the festival’s inauguration, NBC News in Spanish reported that 35% of the […]

We knew this day was coming and many will be surprised that it hasn’t come sooner, but on-demand audio like podcasts and streaming is now more popular than linear formats like radio, Pandora and SiriusXM. This according to the Edison Weekly Insights report, the company that constantly studies our listening habits in the United States. If you look back at even four years ago, radio was outpacing on-demand audio by […]

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes the return of Selena Gomez, the latest Latin pop bop from Kenia Os, and Omar Apollo’s ode to his coming out story. Also on the list: the emergence of Mexican act Latin Mafia, Feid’s feel-good song, and the debut of CNCO’s Zabdiel as a solo artist. Plus, Myke Towers’ end-of-the-summer romp and Los Ángeles Azules’ dreamy […]

Well, that’s a wrap, folks. The temperature is starting to drop, the kids are back in school, and we’ve reached the end of the summer movie season. Despite a handful of pretty spectacular bombs, 2023 is on track to be the highest-grossing year at the movies since 2019 (because we all know what happened in 2020). Two films this year, Barbie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie, grossed more than […]

In the UK Brexit was a hotpoint topic before Covid hit, and many of the predictions of what would happen afterwards, especially to UK musicians and crew, have now come to pass. Since the referendum to leave the European Union in 2016, musicians and their crew have suffered greatly as a new survey shows that nearly half of them have less work now than they did back in the pre-Brexit […]

On my latest podcast episode: Holistic artist and vocal coach Wendy Parr speakers about doing gigs around Hollywood as a teenager, making music in India with some top Indian artists, how she’s helped some of today’s top artists overcome their personal roadblocks, developing her holistic approach to coaching and much more. The latest on Ai music copyright and why a recent court ruling could change everything. And why we may […]