Oracle recently confirmed it had won a bid to become the "trusted technology partner" to TikTok. Oracle is known for selling database solutions to behemoth corporations, while TikTok is an app used by Generation Z for learning the latest viral dances, boycotting Trump rallies, and everything in between.Continue Reading

The Shift Summit & Music Festival is a 4-day online conference of inspiring visionaries and uplifting musical artists. The “live from home” event begins Friday, September 18 at 8:00am Pacific Time and runs through the weekend, culminating on Monday, September 21 for the International Day of Peace.Continue Reading

In Mission:Music's 14th episode, the guys talk to McKay who, among many other projects, has helped produce for Great Highway. The four get into what it's like for McKay to produce and help musicians record remotely, how the iPad is revolutionizing sound design, and finding visual artists for music videos. In between, we get to...Continue Reading

Audio Terrorist's remix of "The City" was released on September 2nd, 2020 on all streaming services. The new single “The City” is a gothic industrial jam with a broadway musical flair. It struts down the runway at a post-apocalyptic fashion show, with an attitude that says “step aside Manson, step aside Reznor.” It's evocative phrases...Continue Reading

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco is one of the largest, free, and beloved music festivals in the country celebrating American roots music, announces its first participants in this year’s Let The Music Play On, led by returning artists Alison Brown, John Doe, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Yola, and first-time performer Sierra Ferrell. To keep community spirit high amid...Continue Reading

Acclaimed producer and songwriter Porter Robinson shares the music video for his latest track, “Mirror.” This is the third track to be released from Robinson’s forthcoming full length, Nurture. In the video, Robinson uses Live2D face-tracking technology to map his own facial movements onto the hand-drawn avatar. Thus capturing his own live expressions and performance of the song.Continue Reading

Stefan Aronsen is the co-founder of Balanced Breakfast, which is a group of musicians and music industry professionals that get together for breakfast to discuss how to best help each other reach the widest audience. There are chapters all around the world, and they are meeting online during the pandemic. We talked about how he...Continue Reading

Mirror explores duality and shadow psychology in the quest for integration of the true self, interlacing diverse threads of culture through sounds of oud, qanun, piano, drums, bass, and a string quartet from a ten-piece chamber ensemble. It is my hope that this music may help us discover how to love ourselves, and one another,...Continue Reading

The California Honeydrops’ new EP, Just One More, And Then Some, released via Tubtone Records, is now out! Just One More, And Then Some follows the recent release of their standalone single “In The Air.”Continue Reading

Burning Man 2020 will take place in the Multiverse, made up of eight unique Universes created by Burners, waiting to be explored.Continue Reading

Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun debuts a new video, “Take Hold Of Me.” The song is the sixth to be released from her as-of-yet untitled album, due out this fall via her own Balloon Ranger Records.Continue Reading

In Mission:Music's thirteenth episode, we talk to Jack Charles and his goth lounge style of music. Jack is from Austin, Texas, and goes over what the week of SXSW was like without the legendary festival & conference. The group also gets into how the quarantine has helped (and hurt) the creative process, illegal outdoor shows...Continue Reading