The 2025 MusiCares Person of the Year event, honoring the Grateful Dead, is moving ahead “with a special appeal for donations to support wildfire relief efforts,” the Recording Academy confirmed in an email sent to members on Tuesday. While many Grammy Week events have been postponed or canceled due to the wildfires still raging in […]

Warner Music Group, Sony Music and BMG have confirmed that they are canceling their Grammy Week events due to the wildfires still raging in Los Angeles, a rep for the company confirms to Variety. The moves come a day after Universal made a similar announcement. Sources say Warner’s decision was made over the weekend, when […]

Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo and Hozier will headline the 2025 edition of Governors Ball, New York City’s biggest music festival. Gov Ball — which featured an iconic performance from Chappell Roan last year — will make its return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on June 6-8, once again aligning with New York Music […]

The Weeknd has canceled his concert at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles that was scheduled for Jan. 25, and will delay the release of his forthcoming album, “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” until Jan. 31. “Out of respect and concern for the people of Los Angeles County, i am canceling the Rose Bowl concert originally scheduled […]

Jackie Farry, an industry veteran who worked closely with Nirvana — becoming Frances Bean Cobain’s first nanny — and then was tour manager for Elliott Smith, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Lemonheads and others, died Sunday of complications from a lung disease. Farry, who had battled cancer for more than 20 years, was 58. […]

The Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced an initial $1 million commitment to the Los Angeles area fire relief and rebuilding efforts. According to the announcement, the  fund will donate to vital organizations supporting the city’s community, local first responders, and those in the music industry affected by the disaster. The […]

UPDATE: In a joint statement, the Recording Academy and MusiCares CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Tammy Hurt, the chair of the academy’s board of trustees, confirmed the Grammy Awards telecast will proceed on Feb. 2 as planned. The music industry was questioning whether the show would continue with its scheduled date, despite the fact that […]

On Sept. 3, 2022, on what was intended to be the final date of his exhausting “After Hours Til Dawn” North American tour, the Weeknd confidently took the stage of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, before 80,000 fans, friends, label executives, his management and a camera crew shooting a climactic scene for his HBO drama […]

Very few television programs have the iconic history of musical guests that Sesame Street does: Over the years it’s featured everyone from Stevie Wonder to Tony Bennett, Erykah Badu to the Fugees, Patti Labelle to R.E.M., and clever interpretations like odes to the letter U from both One Direction (“What Makes U Useful”) and Smokey […]

Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, the Creator, Luke Combs and Hozier are the headliners for the 2025 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, taking place June 12-15 on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, Tenn. Other top-billed artists include Vampire Weekend, Justice, Queens of the Stone Age, John Summit, Dom Dolla, Avril […]

It’s fair to say that the curiosity of more than a few people was piqued by Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Elvis Presley’s career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Austin Butler-starring biopic “Elvis.” He’s become the archetype for the svengali music manager, although he was neither a colonel nor named Parker but was actually a […]

Kobalt’s publishing division has appointed veteran A&R executive Rani Hancock to the position of executive vice president and head of U.S. creative, the company announced today. In her new role, Hancock will lead the company’s creative teams in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville. She was most recently EVP and head of A&R at Columbia Records. “We […]

Wasserman Music has announced the hiring of veteran agents Kevin Shivers, James Rubin and Cristina Baxter, effective today. Shivers and Rubin will join Wasserman Music’s executive leadership Team, marking the group’s biggest expansion since the company’s 2021 launch. Los Angeles-based Shivers joins as EVP & managing executive. At WME, he was a senior partner in […]

Over the last quarter of a century, Relentless Records has been one of the most reliable sources for breaking artists out of the United Kingdom. And now it’s heading across the Atlantic, as the label plans to celebrate its silver jubilee by setting up its first American office. Relentless founder/president Shabir “Shabs” Jobanputra was not […]

Sault, the prolific R&B-leaning collective helmed by songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist Inflo, never does anything the easy way. Their albums and rare concerts are all elaborate and self-financed; they don’t give interviews or even reveal their identities except in the credits of the albums, although it’s possible that not all of the contributors are credited. The group and […]

We Are Moving the Needle has announced the return of the Resonator Awards, taking place January 28, 2025 at Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles. The Resonator Awards celebrate the creative and technical achievements of underrepresented voices in the recording arts. The evening includes a seated dinner, awards ceremony, and live performances. Funds raised from the […]

Universal Music Group and Amazon Music have announced an expanded global relationship that will “enable further innovation, exclusive content with UMG artists, and advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection,” according to the announcement. While full details were not disclosed, the deal is intended to advance UMG’s “Streaming 2.0” strategy, which focuses less on […]

The title of SZA’s long-awaited “SOS Deluxe: Lana” seems designed to manage expectations: Despite her comments earlier this year that the much-delayed project would be a collection of new material, she seems to have reverted to her original plan of making it “outtakes from ‘SOS’ and a couple of new songs,” as she described it […]

In most cases, deluxe albums are intended as a chart-focused second wind for their parent albums, and usually have just a handful of extra tracks — remixes, leftovers, maybe a hot new single to give an extra boost — while the artist is saving the more-promising new material for their next proper album. Not SZA. […]