Come unleash the power of the Pacific Northwest through the lens of a music video! This AI-driven jam session will explore Seattle’s unique energy—from its untamed landscapes and thriving industries… Read More
Grant Hinkson spent almost nine years at Amazon, leading design engineering within the company’s Devices and Services Design Group. He left a little over a year ago to launch his… Read More
What happens when you mix modern AI with a piece of vintage technology and the musical stylings of a very amateur guitarist? You might be surprised. That’s the subject of… Read More
Dreams apparently do come true, for more than one singing janitor. Amazon’s new holiday ad, titled “Midnight Opus,” tells the story of a theater janitor whose vocal talent is discovered… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we revisit the controversy over Starbucks’ hybrid work policy for its new CEO, Brian Niccol; discuss the cyberattack that crippled computer systems at Sea-Tac… Read More
For a while now, we’ve been doing an occasional GeekWire Podcast segment called “My AI,” about the latest AI tools grabbing my attention and changing the way I work. But… Read More
“I like large language models and I cannot lie …” Legendary Seattle rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot probably isn’t ready to sub AI references in for big butts in his 1992 hit… Read More
Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) is seeking a national designation through a bill introduced in Congress that would honor the institution “as a place of great importance” in the… Read More
For the sake of the innovators in the crowd at Thursday night’s GeekWire Awards, let’s hope their products and services don’t end up in a future Robert McPherson musical number.… Read More
Another startup has added a new wrinkle to the growing ways artificial intelligence is affecting content creation — this time with a feature that analyzes video and creates music geared… Read More
The news: Seattle-based Soundry AI, a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to help musicians create samples for songs, is part of the latest cohort at the startup accelerator Y… Read More
As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an important choice. Take a full ride scholarship to study music… Read More
TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio, Miss Universe, and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common thanks to a Seattle startup. Founded in 2009, Audiosocket is… Read More
Amazon is pulling the plug on Amp, the audio app it launched last year to let users DJ their own live radio shows complete with a catalog of millions of… Read More
The term “Seattle sound” often refers to the heyday of grunge music in the city. But the people behind a new cocktail lounge think Seattle has never sounded better thanks… Read More
Thousands of one-of-a-kind artifacts from Paul Allen’s collection, spanning decades of cultural relevance, are headed to Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture, the institution he helped found 23 years ago. The… Read More
Astronauts have been making music in orbit for almost 60 years, but at least some of the members of a band called Bandella prefer to think of themselves as musicians… Read More
During a recent appearance on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan offered a gloomy prediction for the future of music. He said that once kids get their… Read More
When he took the stage last week at the GeekWire Awards as the human embodiment of ChatGPT, accomplished singer Robert “The Drunken Tenor” McPherson had combined his own songwriting intelligence… Read More
Three weeks after the Seattle band Who Is She? played during intermission of a Seattle Kraken game at Climate Pledge Arena — and was asked not to play again — the… Read More
A Seattle punk-pop group that played this week as the “house band” between periods at a Seattle Kraken game at Climate Pledge Arena won’t be playing again this weekend as… Read More
If you use video games to relax or relieve stress, a new collaboration between Microsoft Xbox and Calm, a leading sleep and meditation app, is looking to extend those benefits.… Read More
Any startup would die for the chance to have their product show up in a Taylor Swift music video. That’s just life for Titan Casket. The Bellevue, Wash., and Massachusetts-based… Read More
Someone once famously said that “video killed the radio star.” Forty-one years after that song helped ironically launch MTV, the question in 2022 is, what will artificial intelligence do for… Read More
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has more than 80,000 pieces in its permanent collection, comprised of such artifacts as musical instruments, photographs, posters, clothing items, TV and movie… Read More
Amazon is tuning into the radio business — or, a 2022 version of radio. The company revealed a new app called Amp on Tuesday that allows users to DJ their own… Read More
Seattle based computer education nonprofit Code.org is teaming with the British rock band Coldplay for a contest aimed at inspiring more kids to learn coding through the joys of music… Read More
Remember making a mix tape for someone you were dating? What if the mix tape — or your musical taste — was the reason you were dating? That’s the premise… Read More
“Put your hands in the air, wave ’em like you just don’t care!” someone said, somewhere, once. But musicians and human rights groups do care and are speaking up about… Read More
