Ministry of Sound, one of the U.K.’s biggest independent labels, has been acquired by the British arm of Sony Music. Originally launched in 1993 as an extension of the influential London nightclub founded by James Palumbo, in the two decades since then Ministry Of Sound...
Streaming service Pandora has this week announced a partnership with the largest supermarket retailer in Australia – Woolworths – to offer specially curated, exclusive Pandora stations as an in-store music experience for shoppers nationwide. The music will be refreshed and updated on a regular basis...
Gaming might seem like an obvious application for virtual reality technology, but it can also be used to tap into your creative side. Pairing with the HTC Vive, music-making suite SoundStage lets you set up a music studio and jam away without having to sound-proof...
YouTube Music’s recent release of a five-ad series acknowledging the power of music as a definition of identity and self is powerful in its poignant and real depictions. Choosing five characters and matching each of them to a defining soundtrack, it’s both evocative and provocative....
California-based 9FIVE Eyewear has teamed up with artist J-Black to create an original and live production in a video that has already amassed over 106K views on the brand’s Facebook channel. The content piece is itself simple, succinct and authentic: showing the beatsmith candidly at...
Launching towards the end of this month, Absolut Vodka has plunged in the world of VR and partnered with notoriously outspoken dance music producer Deadmau5 for a gaming experience that allows users to follow the artist around town on a night out as part of...
Apple was granted a patent last week for technology that could soon be used to restrict iPhones from capturing content at venues where specific emitters have been installed to broadcast an infrared signal that would temporarily disable smart-phone cameras. News that might elicit joyous applause...
With the recent news of Microsoft acquiring Linkedin dominating the press, another deal has been inked also worthy of discussion: Twitter has invested $70M in music streaming service SoundCloud, notably two years after having walked away from a $1B purchase offer. How the strategic partnership...
Despite powerful grassroots campaigning to encourage voter turnout, and a resounding head-nod from the music industry to ‘Remain’, the cards have been (marginally) dealt in favour of Brexit. Over the last few weeks in the lead up to the much contested referendum, a series of...
Converse, long-appealing to counterculture and defining itself around creativity and self-expression, regularly appears in our newsletter. We love how the 108-year-old brand purposely sets out to celebrate their best customers, rather than itself, and works to contribute to youth culture rather than take from it....
Possibly one of the coolest visualisations of data ever, The Universe Of Miles Davis tool amasses all 2,452 Wikipedia pages that mention the late and great trumpeter to illustrate the jazz pioneer’s ongoing enormous influence on decades of musicians and culture in general. Quoted in...
Black Summer, quite possible Australia’s youngest electronic music producer (whom we featured in the very first iteration of our This Week We Heard newsletter!), has been snapped up by Uncle Toby’s Oats to illustrate their ‘Energy Feeds Your Passion’ campaign. Originally discovered via Triple J’s...
The audio brand has turned social media users’ tweets into jams. Throughout Super Bowl’s Sunday big game, the company encouraged the public to post social updates via Twitter using the hashtag #LetsHearIt. The words and accompanying emojis were then translated into song and sung to...
A new browser instrument called Pixelsynth allows you to create music using a library of pre-selected images or uploads of your own – with interesting results. Created by US coder Olivia Jack, Pixelsynth’s scrolling cursor rolls its way across a monochrome image and plays notes when it...