‘Where honour and ridiculousness collide’: in praise of karaoke’s inventor, on his death at 100

Shigeichi Negishi’s invention invites us to cast off humility and take a shot at singing stardom. His legacy will be credited – and blamed – for us living out our popstar fantasies

‘There’s joy I haven’t felt for years!’ How an app finally got me hooked on the piano

Thirty years after failing his grade two exam, our writer is banging out Handel, Billie Eilish and Elton John - and he’s not alone. With apps to help with learning, there’s never been a better time to tinkle the ivories

Neil Young to return music to Spotify as he attacks ‘disinformation’ across streaming services

Rock star left Spotify in 2022 in protest over podcaster Joe Rogan, but says he can’t keep up fight as Rogan broadens distribution to Apple, YouTube and Amazon

‘The worst AI-generated artwork we’ve seen’: Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook ad fail

A ‘poorly considered’ use of AI has resulted in a perplexing number of fingers – and a large amount of mockery

The music industry’s over-reliance on TikTok shows how lazy it has become

​Universal’s decision to remove its artists from ​T​ikTok ​h​as destabilised both companies – and lays bare how record labels have become reliant on random virality

Tech bros need to realise deepfake porn ruins lives – and the law has to catch up

Taylor Swift is just one of countless victims of deepfake videos. Firms feeding off this abuse should pay for the harm they cause

Everyone Knows That: can you identify the lost 80s hit baffling the internet?

Entire online communities have developed around naming this 17-second snippet of catchy pop – and three years after it was uploaded no one has solved the mystery

Danish man on trial over alleged £500k music streaming fraud

Aarhus court hears he may have profited from artificially generated playbacks, in case thought to be first of its kind

Jazz composer Maria Schneider: ‘David Bowie cracked me – maybe not in a good way’

The US musician has won star admirers and seven Grammys across three decades of lyrical and angry work – but you can’t stream it. She explains her fight against big tech, and her dismay at other artists’ apathy

Fungi: Web of Life review – Björk and Merlin Sheldrake guide trippy mushroom doc

Beginner’s guide to the wrap-your-brain-around-them facts of mycological science boosts the wonder with 3D time-lapse photography

Spotify swings to loss as it adds 200,000 audiobooks to paid service

Job cuts add to costs for streaming service but it gains 10m premium subscribers in fourth quarter

‘I’ll probably be OK, right?’ Musicians and users concerned as Universal music taken off TikTok

Contractual dispute between Universal Music Group and social media giant results in removal of thousands of songs, and loss of marketing clout for musicians

Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in furious open letter

UMG said it will remove all songs from TikTok after it accused the social media platform of trying to ‘bully’ them into ‘a bad deal’ over music rights fees

Taylor Swift deepfake pornography sparks renewed calls for US legislation

Fake but convincing explicit images of pop singer were viewed tens of millions of times on X and Telegram, prompting outcry from US politicians

On my radar: Margo Price’s cultural highlights

The US country star on learning a new instrument at 40, her favourite place to eat in Nashville and an app she’s happy to have send her to sleep