Deadmau5's Feline Secret to Success and Well Being

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Sources (some may be behind pay wall)

• deadmau5 on How His Cats Have Helped Him — Even If One Also Destroyed His Rare Art: ‘That’s the Price of a Cat’
• Professor Meowingtons
• Eulogy in Code: How deadmau5 Developed a Gaming Tribute to His Late Cat, Meowingtons
• Deadmau5

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MUSE versus Artificial Intelligence

 Your Muse Is Calling...You Should Answer!

Link: https://youtu.be/RApEUXa6cys

Sources:

Video: Gilmore Interview

• Luck and Strange
• The Montgolfier Brothers
• The Nine Muses in Greek Mythology
• Apollo dancing with the Muses - Engraving, Public domain image
• Video: The Montgolfier Brothers - Between Two Points
• The 9 Muses streets and how they’re really pronounced
• TIL Rage Against The Machine included the disclaimer "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" in their liner notes.

https://srfrjff.substack.com

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IS IT REAL, OR IS IT MEMOREX (AI)?

Is It live? 

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Sources (some may be behind paywall):

• How Claude AI Clawed Through Millions Of Books — Forbes

• Deezer Exec Says ‘There’s No Going Back’ on AI Music: ‘The Industry Will Need to Make a Decision’

• All Music Works: The First Record Label Exclusively Featuring AI Artists

• Video: Memorex VHS Tapes Ad from 1982 - Is It Live Or Is It Memorex?

• Video: Love Glitch

Is This The Day The Music Died?

 Will Music Kill AI, Or Will AI Kill Music?

Link to Podcast 

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Sources (some may be behind paywall):

• Ex-Meta Exec Warns Artist Consent Kills AI
• Oversharing: how Napster nearly killed the music industry
• The Recording Industry Association of America Sues Napster
• The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs
• BMG and Napster tie the knot
• Record Labels Sue Generative AI Companies for Copyright Infringement
• House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill
• What Suno And Udio’s AI Licensing Deals With Music Majors Could Mean For Creators Rights
• LABELS IN LICENSING TALKS WITH AI MUSIC GENERATORS SUNO AND UDIO (REPORT)
• Napster Boxing Match
• BMG and Napster: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Buy ‘Em!
• Labels V Suno etc.
• ELTON JOHN, PAUL MCCARTNEY AMONG ARTISTS URGING UK GOVERNMENT TO ‘PROTECT COPYRIGHT IN THE AGE OF AI’
• We have a chance to prevent AI decimating Britain’s creative industries – but it’s slipping away
• Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
• Record labels sue AI music generator startups Suno, Udio for copyright infringement
• Video: Don McLean - American Pie

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AI Killed the Radio Star

 Your Fav Radio DJ Might Not Be Human!

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Sources (Some may be behind paywall)

• Radio Station Duped Audience and Secretly Used an AI Host for Six Months

• Meet AI Ashley, Portland’s new artificial intelligence DJ

• Relax, Radio DJs – The AI Scare Is Over (I Think…)

• Spotify's New AI DJ Is Making Waves and Breaking Hits

• Transforming radio: Open FM applications of AI

• The Future of Radio: ChatGPT as an Automated DJ

• AI DJs and algorithmic playlists: Is human radio at risk?

• WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REPLACE RADIO PERSONALITIES?

• The Record: Q1 U.S. audio listening trends

• Radio Stays ‘Stable and Dominant’ In FMR/Eastlan 2025 Report

• Video Killed the Radio Star

• The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video)

I Want My Masters!

Sinatra, Taylor, Fogerty, Swift Fight for Control, and The Dough ($)

Link to podcast: https://youtu.be/51qME2WDIqI

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• Vid: Original version of Carolina In My Mind
• Take Two: Artists Who Re-Recorded Their Music
• Labels really don’t want other artists mimicking Taylor Swift’s re-recording initiative
• John Fogerty to Release New Recordings of Creedence Clearwater Revival Songs — Basically ‘John’s Versions’
• Roger Waters has rerecorded The Dark Side of the Moon without Pink Floyd. "I Wrote It...So"
• “Look What You Made Me Do (Taylor’s Version)” featured in this week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale
• Midler v. Ford Motor Co
• Vid:  Comercial da Nike, 1987 "Revolution"
• Scooter Braun Sells Taylor Swift’s Big Machine Masters for Big Payday

• Why Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs

• Here’s Why Taylor Swift Is Re-Releasing Her Old Albums
• Look-what-you-made-them-do-the-impact-of-taylor-swifts-re-recording-project-on-record-labels/
• BEATLES SUE NIKE OVER USE OF SONG

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Sounds Familiar: The Black Keys File Lawsuit Over Sound-a-likes Used in Ads

Guinea Pigs Forced to Listen to Adele for 7 Days!!!

 The Adele / Guinea Pig Experiment

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Sources (Some may be behind Paywall):

• Scientists just made guinea pigs listen to Adele for seven days… and the results are both surprising and worrying
• Loudness Wars: Metallica's Death Magnetic
• Loudness war
• The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse
• Scientists made guinea pigs listen to Adele for a week. Here’s what happened to them.
• Using An Audio Compressor For VoiceOver Jobs
• The World is Getting Louder
• Metallica Fans Upset Over “Death Magnetic” Compression
• Loud, louder, loudest – how birds are adapting to city life