By Mauro Orru Universal Music Group is scheduled to report results for the third quarter on Thursday. Here is what you need to know: REVENUE FORECAST: The music company behind the Weeknd, Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift is expected to post revenue of 2.68 billion euros ($2.84 billion) for the three months to the end…

Legendary American rockers DOKKEN will release their 13th studio album, “Heaven Comes Down”, on October 27 via Silver Lining Music. The follow-up to 2012’s “Broken Bones” was produced by Bill Palmer and Don Dokken and was mixed by Kevin Shirley (AEROSMITH, IRON MAIDEN). The official Above The Void-created music video for the LP’s third single,…

Over at Pitchfork, writer Jayson Greene offers a pretty fascinating look at both the appeal, and the shortcomings, of using text-to-music LLMs such as Google’s new MusicLM. In a lot of ways, Greene ends up epitomizing that classic saying that, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Consider the video above. To create it,…