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Charlotte Stahl bounced from TikTok after spending more than five years climbing the ranks at the ByteDance-owned platform. She started managing artist relations for Germany back in 2020, then ran music operations across the DACH region and Central and Eastern Europe before taking over all music...

Meta teamed up with iHeartMedia to drop a free VR concert experience featuring Coldplay's Music of the Spheres tour on Meta Horizon. The thing goes live at the end of December, and people can watch through the mobile app or Quest headsets. They shot it at Wembley Stadium using 15 cameras, and...

Universal Music Group UK has appointed Rebecca Allen to a brand-new Chief Artist and Strategy Officer position. She'll be connecting teams across UMG UK labels like Island-EMI, Polydor, Capitol UK, and Decca to help musicians at every career stage. Allen continues to run the Audience, Media &...

Artists in DSP put out Euclyd, a delay plugin that uses Euclidean rhythm math to space out echo taps in geometric patterns instead of just doing regular repeating delays. The company says the thing turns timing divisions into rhythmic structures that sound organic even though they come from...

Steinberg dropped VST Live 3 with video processing built right in, and the software handles multiple camera feeds while letting you automate scene switches to match your audio. The thing connects straight to OBS for streaming shows with multiple angles, and there's a new monitor mixer that...

Sonible pushed out smart:comp 3 with a new compression matrix thing that shows you a bunch of different compressor settings based on whatever audio you feed it instead of just spitting out one preset. The plugin lets you link multiple instances together for group processing across different...

Rhodes Music dropped two custom MK8 electric pianos built in Leeds, and they gave people about a month to order them before shutting down the window. The Glacial version has a see-through hood with some carved frost stuff on it, and everything comes in white with blue accents. The Monolith model...

Zimbabwean Sungura artist Nicholas Zakaria passed away, and his family broke the news through his social media accounts. People knew him as "Senior Lecturer", and he built a serious reputation in the genre over the years as both a vocalist and someone who helped younger musicians coming up. His...

SSL launched SpringVerb, an algorithmic reverb plugin that recreates the sound of vintage spring reverb hardware with way more tweaking options than the actual physical units ever had. The thing gives you three different spring tank models pulled from a tape delay box, a rack-mount reverb, and...

Strymon has just released the Fairfax Class A Output Stage, which marks the beginning of their new Series A analog pedal lineup and draws inspiration from a 1960s Garnet Amps Herzog tube drive that reportedly powered some classic rock tracks. The company designed a miniaturized tube amp circuit...

Native Instruments just shipped Absynth 6 after working with the synth's original designer Brian Clevinger, and the update brings MPE support plus an AI-powered preset browser that maps sounds on a 2D grid based on how they actually sound instead of making you scroll through endless lists. The...

The Audio Firm dropped Furnace, a saturation plugin that mixing engineer Sean J Vincent built with developer Vic Lewis from Fazertone after spending two years shopping his concept around to different companies. The processor gives you three analog-style saturation modes pulled from tape...

MathAudio pushed out a major refresh of its Room EQ software, bringing it up to version 3.0.0 for a hundred bucks. The audio plugin gets native support for high-resolution displays and lets users stretch the interface by grabbing the corner. CLAP format compatibility arrives alongside a manual...

President Mnangagwa dropped off 35 vehicles at State House for the Youth Empowerment Ministry with plans to send 72 total rides to district officers around the country. Minister Tino Machakaire grabbed the keys and said that better transportation means youth programs can actually reach...

Tinashe Mutarisi shut down his entertainment company's music division while riding in a car headed to a funeral, which left artists like Nisha Ts devastated and turned Zimbabwean social media into a total mess. The businessman said he wanted to pivot toward mentoring entrepreneurs instead of...

Six people got busted in Beitbridge after flipping government fertilizer meant for local farmers through the Presidential Input Scheme. The National Anti-Corruption Association spotted folks buying the subsidized bags from scheme beneficiaries and reselling them for profit around the border...

The Reformed Church in Zimbabwe wants to boot roughly 2,000 families off two massive farms near Great Zimbabwe Monuments after people squatted there starting back in the early 80s. Owen Shayawabaya from district lands called a meeting with church reps and Chief Mugabe to announce the plan, but...

President Mnangagwa dropped his annual anti-corruption speech, saying his government stays locked in on Vision 2030 goals while keeping zero tolerance for sketchy dealings that mess with development plans. Zimbabwe marked the International Day against corruption alongside other countries that...

Police in Harare Province are rolling out drones to watch traffic patterns and track criminal stuff while Commissioner Maxwell Chikunguru says they will shift everything over to digital docket processing that cuts out opportunities for cops taking bribes. The tech gets deployed as authorities...

Prophet Walter Magaya and his wife, Tendai, are getting bumped up to the High Court for fraud charges tied to their companies, Planet Africa and Yadah Connect. The couple got hit with 78 separate counts after allegedly running a sketchy land scheme that took people for around 49 grand in...