Rock Nashville is building the future of live shows and Nashville is ready for it

Nashville has long been “Music City,” but the game is changing. Rock Nashville a purpose-built live-entertainment campus rising in the Whites Creek area north of downtown aims to turn a once-industrial stretch into a one-stop ecosystem for building, rehearsing and launching arena-scale tours. Think rehearsal studios, stage-building warehouses, vendor shops and technical offices all clustered […]

Streaming platforms clean house: how Spotify and the industry are fighting spam uploads and AI deepfakes

Streaming services are facing a new kind of mess — not just piracy or low payouts, but millions of low-quality, AI-generated tracks that flood catalogues, waste listeners’ time and, in some cases, attempt to siphon tiny royalty payments. Over the past year the problem has accelerated because generative AI tools make it trivially easy for […]