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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/09/entertainment/sly-stone-death

Sly Stone, pioneering funk musician, dead at 82
Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the J.D. Salinger of rock, has died, his family announced Monday.

Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: multiple pitches from harmonic tones in Vitalic's music
Emmanuel Deruty, David Meredith, Maarten Grachten, Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, Andreas Hasselholt J{\o}rgensen, Oliver S{\o}nderm{\o}lle Hansen, Magnus Stensli, Christian N{\o}rk{\ae}r Petersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Methods for pitch analysis in contemporary popular music: multiple pitches from harmonic tones in Vitalic's music
Aims. This study suggests that the use of multiple perceived pitches arising from a single harmonic complex tone is an active and intentional feature of contemporary popular music. The phenomenon is illustrated through examples drawn from the work of electronic artist Vitalic and others. Methods. Two listening tests were conducted: (1) evaluation of the number of simultaneous pitches perceived from single harmonic tones, and (2) manual pitch transcription of sequences of harmonic tones. Relat…

Do Music Source Separation Models Preserve Spatial Information in Binaural Audio?
Richa Namballa, Agnieszka Roginska, Magdalena Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00155

Do Music Source Separation Models Preserve Spatial Information in Binaural Audio?
Binaural audio remains underexplored within the music information retrieval community. Motivated by the rising popularity of virtual and augmented reality experiences as well as potential applications to accessibility, we investigate how well existing music source separation (MSS) models perform on binaural audio. Although these models process two-channel inputs, it is unclear how effectively they retain spatial information. In this work, we evaluate how several popular MSS models preserve spat…

Some recent popular books “explaining” music are actually awful. They commit the naturalistic fallacy with flair - as if the sweep of nature had quietly handed us a tidy little musical rulebook. I come away not with understanding but with a feeling of aesthetic conscription. Or constipation.

U2 have won the fellowship of the Ivor Novello songwriting academy.
You can see why when you consider songs such as their popular tribute to the horror of Sundays - those awful anxieties you feel prior to the start of the working week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkeDjLZMRRk…

SLEEPING-DISCO 9M: A large-scale pre-training dataset for generative music modeling
Tawsif Ahmed, Andrej Radonjic, Gollam Rabby
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14293

SLEEPING-DISCO 9M: A large-scale pre-training dataset for generative music modeling
We present Sleeping-DISCO 9M, a large-scale pre-training dataset for music and song. To the best of our knowledge, there are no open-source high-quality dataset representing popular and well-known songs for generative music modeling tasks such as text-music, music-captioning, singing-voice synthesis, melody reconstruction and cross-model retrieval. Past contributions focused on isolated and constrained factors whose core perspective was to create synthetic or re-recorded music corpus (e.g. GTSi…

Universal Music Representations? Evaluating Foundation Models on World Music Corpora
Charilaos Papaioannou, Emmanouil Benetos, Alexandros Potamianos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17055

Universal Music Representations? Evaluating Foundation Models on World Music Corpora
Foundation models have revolutionized music information retrieval, but questions remain about their ability to generalize across diverse musical traditions. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of five state-of-the-art audio foundation models across six musical corpora spanning Western popular, Greek, Turkish, and Indian classical traditions. We employ three complementary methodologies to investigate these models' cross-cultural capabilities: probing to assess inherent representations…

Evolving music theory for emerging musical languages
Emmanuel Deruty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14504 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1450…

Evolving music theory for emerging musical languages
This chapter reconsiders the concept of pitch in contemporary popular music (CPM), particularly in electronic contexts where traditional assumptions may fail. Drawing on phenomenological and inductive methods, it argues that pitch is not an ontologically objective property but a perceptual construct shaped by listeners and conditions. Analyses of quasi-harmonic tones reveal that a single tone can convey multiple pitches, giving rise to tonal fission. The perception of pitch may also be multista…