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Virtual artist Miquela debuted a music video at Lollapalooza

The Verge

Lollapalooza moved online this year , and the music festival kicked off in an appropriately online way: with the debut of a new music video from virtual creator Miquela. The “Hard Feelings” video also differs from her past music videos in a few ways. She’s part of a burgeoning field of digital influencers.

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Roblox has big plans for virtual music events

The Verge

Despite its straightforward nature, 1.156 million unique players showed up for the event, with a peak concurrent total of 166,620 people — and it’s just the start of a plan to make music an integral part of Roblox. Our notion of a virtual concert we think has to have a virtual artist, a virtual stage, a virtual audience.”

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Turntable.fm is back from the dead — and now there are two

The Verge

It’s rare that apps come back from the dead, but it seems like that may be what’s happening with Turntable.fm, a site that let you create their own radio-stations and DJ sets with music you curate before it got shuttered in 2014. Even rarer, it seems like there are two versions involved in the revival: the original Turntable.fm

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AmazeVR gets another $15M to forge the future of immersive concerts 

TechCrunch

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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GTA Online is getting an underground nightclub featuring real-world resident DJs

The Verge

Grand Theft Auto Online is soon getting its own concert venue with the planned opening of The Music Locker, an underground nightclub that will feature real-world DJs in residence. Rockstar is following ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Roblox’ in turning its online virtual world into a live music space. Image: Rockstar Games. Image: Rockstar Games.

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Lil Nas X brings Old Town Road to Roblox with an elaborate virtual concert

The Verge

This sort of larger-than-life, impossibly elaborate staging is one of the advantages of performing inside of Roblox — the hit kids game — where Lil Nas X will become the first major artist to use the platform for a fully virtual concert this week. “I Photo: Roblox. Lil Nas X in a motion-capture suit for his Roblox performance. million people.

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FlyMachine raises $21 million to build a virtual concerts platform for a post-pandemic world

TechCrunch

San Francisco-based FlyMachine is aiming to seek out the holy grail of the digital music industry, finding a way to capture some of the magic of live concerts and performances in a live-streamed setting. Spotify experimented with virtual events.

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