AI Music Tools News

OpenStage launches an MCP that connects your fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini

• OpenStage launched OpenStage MCP, letting artists connect their fan data to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini and have the AI read, analyze, and act on it.
• The platform already powers fan data for more than 600 artists and 30 million fans, including Paul McCartney, Lana Del Rey, and Bad Bunny.
• In early testing, one manager's single prompt surfaced that an artist's fanbase had tripled in one city over six months.

Suno Spark explained: grants, benefits, and the fine print for artists

• Suno Spark gives selected unsigned artists grants from the thousands to the tens of thousands of dollars, plus marketing money, writing camps, and a dedicated partner manager.
• Artists keep creative control and the commercial rights to their songs and pick their own distributor.
• Spark's fine print bars participants from portraying Suno negatively "during the Term and thereafter," with no end date.

Reactional Music wins $2.8M EU grant to scale in-game music monetization

• Reactional Music won a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) grant from the European Innovation Council.
• The EIC can add up to €6.5 million ($7.4 million) in equity later, taking the potential total near €9 million.
• Reactional's patented engine personalizes in-game music and reacts to gameplay in real time, without altering master recordings.

Mureka rebrands as the first 'AI-native music platform,' adding listening to generation

• Mureka announced on June 22, 2026 that it is rebranding as the first "AI-native music platform," built to handle creation and listening in one place.
• The pitch is closing a loop the AI music industry split apart, where songs were generated on one side and listened to on the other.
• Mureka's next-generation model, V10, is set to launch in Q3 2026, alongside Text-to-Song, Remix, a multi-track Studio, a desktop app, Music-to-Video, and a developer API.

RTM Audio launches UAI, an AI music detector that issues a signed certificate per track

• RTM Audio launched UAI, an AI music detector that flags a track as AI only when two separate checks, one on production and one on the vocal, agree.
• Every UAI verdict produces a cryptographically signed certificate bound to a track's ISRC, formatted for EU AI Act disclosure and DDEX metadata export.
• RTM Audio reports a 0.06% false-positive rate across 8,236 masters in internal validation, with five tracks hard-flagged.

Warner Chappell licenses its production catalog to AI brand-music startup EightSix

• EightSix named Warner Chappell Production Music as the first major music partner for its Brand Studio platform.
• Warner Chappell Production Music brings more than 135,000 tracks across 120-plus catalogs into the platform.
• The catalog sits inside Brand Studio as a premium module brands can activate without a separate licensing step.

How to separate stems in Suno: Auto Split, Split from Mix, Advanced Split

• Suno's stem update adds three modes: Auto Split (classic 12 stems), Split from Mix (one instrument plus a backing track), and Advanced Split (regenerated custom stems).
• Advanced Split rebuilds each stem from scratch with Suno's latest model, so the output is cleaner and free of the bleed you get from frequency filtering.
• Advanced Split lets you target close to 100 instruments, down to a single violin, 808, or didgeridoo.

Push Push used AudioShake to lift a 35-year-old vocal out of a finished mix

• Push Push reunited after more than 30 years to rework "Euphoric Plunder in Bliss," a track from their 1992 debut album.
• The original recording had every instrument and vocal locked inside a single finished mix, with no separate stems to work from.
• AudioShake separated the original vocal and guitar straight from the mixed master, with no session files.

Vermillio launches an 'AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service' SDK for music rightsholders

• Vermillio launched a software development kit it calls "AI-Guardrails-as-a-Service" for the music industry.
• The tech lets artists set rules for how their name, image, likeness, and voice can be used by generative AI models.
• It also gives labels, artists, and streaming services tools to detect and attribute music used in AI tracks.

Suno's product chief details its AI safeguards ahead of the first label-licensed model

• Suno chief product officer Jack Brody published a June 11, 2026 LinkedIn post detailing the company's platform-integrity safeguards as it preps its first label-licensed model.
• Brody said Suno deliberately does not use artist names as training metadata, under a policy it calls Original Creation, By Design.
• Suno says it screens uploads with Audible Magic, Musixmatch, and ACRCloud, and is building audio fingerprinting, watermarking, and impersonation detection.

Kobalt founder Willard Ahdritz leads a seed round in Madverse, India's AI distribution platform with 200,000 artists

• Willard Ahdritz, founder of Kobalt, leads Madverse's Series Seed round through Ahdritz Capital; the amount is undisclosed
• Madverse represents over 200,000 independent artists and labels across more than 45 countries, up from 150,000 in January
• The platform's userbase grew 25% in the past month, and its artists have passed 3 billion combined streams

I tested the 5 best AI music video generators in 2026: Here's what happened

I tested Neural Frames, OneMoreShot AI, ElevenLabs Flows, Kaiber, and RunwayML. Here's the best AI music video generator for your release in 2026.