Your Daily Drop APril 17th
🎶 Music Industry Highlights
🎤 Cardi B and FKA twigs to Headline 2025 LadyLand Festival
Cardi B and FKA twigs are set to headline the 2025 LadyLand music festival, scheduled for June 27 and 28 at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, New York. The festival celebrates Pride Month with a lineup including Sofia Kourtesis, Sukihana, Uniiqu3, Boris, Pabllo Vittar, and more. Pitchfork
🎬 Tribeca Festival Features Music Legends
The 2025 Tribeca Festival, running from June 4–15 in New York, will showcase a blend of high-profile musical talent and compelling film premieres. Highlights include the premiere of "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," Miley Cyrus’s visual album "Something Beautiful," and Eddie Vedder’s benefit concert documentary "Matter of Time." AP News
🎶 Music Biopics Surge in Popularity
Music biopics are experiencing a significant boom, with numerous high-profile projects in development, including films about the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and Madonna. This trend follows the success of films like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Rocketman." Latest news & breaking headlines
💻 Tech & Innovation
🤖 Yamaha Launches $50M Music Tech Investment Fund
Yamaha plans to form a corporate venturing unit in Silicon Valley to invest $50 million in startups focused on innovations in musical instruments and audio equipment, including AI for video and music production.
🎛️ SynthFest France 2025 Showcases New Music Tech
SynthFest France 2025 featured new products like the FCPro Audio Mixthesizer Matrix, an expandable stereo matrix mixer, and AudioKit's King of VHS, a retro-inspired Lo-Fi Synthesizer for iOS. SYNTH ANATOMY
🎚️ Waves Launches First Fully Integrated Live Mixing Console
At NAMM 2025, Waves introduced its first-ever fully integrated live mixing console, the eMotion LV1 Classic, combining the LV1 mix engine into an all-in-one console for live sound applications. MusicTech
🎮 Gaming x Music
🎵 Wake Forest Hosts 'We Play Together: Music & Gaming' Event
A three-day “We Play Together: Music & Gaming” event will be held at Wake Forest University from April 17–19, blending music, gaming, academics, and career exploration. Featured guests include Inon Zur, Emmy award-winning composer with more than 80 original musical scores for video games, and Pete Hines, former senior vice president of Bethesda Softworks.
🎮 Xbox Game Pass Adds Music-Driven Games
Xbox Game Pass confirms 11 new titles coming this April, including "Tempopo," a music-focused game releasing on April 17, and "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," a Day One release on April 24. NME+1NME+1
💸 Gaming Costs Rise Amid Economic Challenges
The video game industry is grappling with rising costs amid global economic disruptions, including trade tariffs and inflation. Despite these challenges, many gamers find profound personal value in their game libraries, prompting a reevaluation of spending habits. The Guardian+1Ars Technica+1
📺 Streaming News
📉 Spotify Experiences Global Outage
On April 16, 2025, Spotify suffered a global outage affecting both its mobile app and website, leaving millions of users worldwide without access to music and podcasts. Spotify confirmed that the outage was not due to a security breach and that they were actively working to restore service. Diario AS
💰 Streaming Services Face Potential Price Hikes
Music streaming providers, like Spotify, are facing increased taxes in various countries, such as a 1.2% tax on streaming revenue in France. These taxes are leading to price hikes and legal challenges in multiple regions. Ars Technica
📈 Netflix Aims for $1 Trillion Valuation by 2030
Netflix plans to release its Q1 2025 earnings report on April 17, aiming to become the first to join the $1 trillion club solely through streaming-related business. Achieving this goal would require significant subscriber growth and global expansion. Ars Technica