Music

Almost six years after buying it for $275 million, Etsy is selling Reverb to an investor group founded by former SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor and Fender parent company Servco, Engadget reports.

Android Central and leak hunter Assemble Debug point out that the feature has started to appear, as shown in this Reddit post. Beyond just displaying lyrics for certain songs, it allows users to highlight specific ones to create a social media-friendly sharing card, just like Spotify does.

YouTube’s deal to stream Coachella performances continues through 2026, and tonight you can start watching the festival’s first weekend, free of charge.

Alongside their fifth studio album, And the Adjacent Possible, debuting today, OK Go has released a new music video for a song called Love featuring kaleidoscopic effects created by the band, 29 choreographed robots, and over 60 mirrors.

Ahead of Lazarus‘ second episode airing this weekend, Sony has released the series’ trio of soundtracks from Kamasi Washington, Bonobo, and Floating Points. All three of the soundtracks are on most major platforms, but there’s no word yet on whether they’ll be getting physical releases.

Bon Iver’s new video, for “There’s a Rhythm / Au Revoir,” has a background that looks rather computer-generated. Its director, Isaac Gale, is also credited as the “Generative Artist.” There’s an “Unreal Engine Artist,” too. Bon Iver’s come a long way from the hunting cabin in the woods, which I suppose is the point of the video.

A rumor on social media has suggested that once Spotify’s long-awaited Music Pro / Hi-Fi / Supremium tier arrives, the music streamer might pull an Amazon Prime Video and push paying subscribers to choose between living with ads at their existing price or pay more for the old, ad-free experience.

Good video from Billboard’s Kristin Robinson.

Fortnite’s next Festival season, which kicks off on April 8th, will feature Sabrina Carpenter, Epic Games announced today.

Why just livestream Coachella when you can also have someone talking over it? YouTube is testing a new “Watch With” feature that allows creators to react and commentate over live event streams, giving viewers the “experience of watching Coachella alongside your favorite creator.”

Nokia’s iconic 3310 was first resurrected as a modern(ish) handset, and will now be immortalized by the UK’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Well, that may not be entirely true, but the Royal Albert Hall’s April Fools’ Day prank imagines a better world than this: one where classic ringtones get the full orchestral treatment, Snake II players are projected, and an organist creates a bit-crushed composition on a T9 keyboard.

More than 25 years ago, Napster opened a music IP can of worms, and long after the lawsuits ended, its zombified name has stuck around for connections to iHeartRadio, Rhapsody, and NFTs. Now CNBC reports that something called Infinite Reality has bought the brand, intending to market metaverse music experiences where it will “...create virtual 3D spaces that allow music fans to enjoy concerts or listening parties together, and let musicians or labels sell physical and virtual merchandise.”

Valnet, the Canadian media conglomerate that owns a number of entertainment blogs like Screen Rant, MovieWeb, Collider, and Comic Book Resources, is the subject of a damning new report from The Wrap detailing how some of the sites have been turned into “borderline like almost sweatshop-level” content mills where underpaid employees who speak up about their working conditions often wind up being put on blacklists.

If The Weeknd wasn’t enough to convince you to pick up Apple’s $3,499 headset (or at least stop by an Apple Store to try one out), now the company will offer a 25-minute virtual trip to the Mexico City finale of Metallica’s M72 World Tour, which will also be available as an EP on Apple Music.

In celebration of MAR10 day, Nintendo’s official holiday celebrating its iconic red plumber guy, it dropped a new album on its Nintendo Music app - the soundtrack for Super Mario Bros. 3. You can see the full tracklist here, but it’s got a lot of Koji Kondo’s greatest hits like “Hurry Up! Underwater BGM” or “Hurry Up! King of the Koopas”.

Lena Raine, the composer of Celeste’s amazing soundtrack, shared some songs from the Celeste team’s cancelled game Earthblade on Bandcamp.

You can now tune out the world to Link’s most memorable 16-bit adventure as Nintendo has added 31 tracks from the Super Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past to its music streaming app. The 46-minute long tracklist includes the game’s opening title theme, Kakariko Village, and Hyrule Castle, which are all available to Switch Online subscribers.

She’s one of over 1,000 musicians, including Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, and Hans Zimmer, who’ve put their names behind an album protesting UK AI policy. Each of the 12 tracks is a recording of an empty studio or performance space.

Thanks Bon Iver.

It wasn’t hard to imagine John Malkovich being able to embody the spirit of an eccentric, reclusive pop star in A24’s new thriller Opus. But it’s kind of shocking to hear how good he sounds singing “Dina, Simone”, one of the movie’s original songs written and written by Nile Rodgers and The-Dream.

Beyoncé won big at the Grammy Awards this year, including nabbing the Best Country Album award for Cowboy Carter. There’s been backlash, with some insisting the Texas native’s work isn’t really a country record.