In 2024, a hit song is more like something you can’t escape than something you can measure. There are countless charts and services and data dumps that measure streams and memes and airplay and anything else you can count. But none of them can fully explain “Brat Summer” — the cultural phenomenon surrounding British singer-songwriter […]

Team Roc, Roc Nation’s social justice division, has announced the launch of a new true crime podcast called “Corruption Uncovered” that will investigate and examine the misconduct and systemic failures within the criminal justice system in Kansas City, Kansas. The inaugural episode of the weekly series will be available on Dec. 6. According to the announcement, […]

AC/DC have unveiled dates for the 2025 “Power Up” North American tour — the band’s first dates on the continent since 2016. It will also be singer Brian Johnson’s first run in an even longer time. During that 2016 tour, he suffered hearing loss and had to bow out — none other than Guns N’ Roses […]

In the latest twist in the bruising beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, the Canadian rapper has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group over allegations that the company conspired using Spotify to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” The action is doubly surprising because UMG distributes both artists’ recordings. In […]

Zach Bryan, Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Sabrina Carpenter are among the artists leading the 2024 Billboard Music Awards nominees, with Swift facing off against Drake to compete for the most all-time wins. The eligibility dates for this year’s awards are aligned with Billboard’s Year-End Charts tracking period, which measures music consumption from the charts […]

Elton John explained his ongoing eye ailment on “Good Morning America” Monday, an infection that has impaired his ability to work and held up the release of a new album. On the show, Elton gave an update on his previously reported eye infection, which has caused him to lose his eyesight in his right eye […]

Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mandate: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a self-fulfilling mandate.  Since then, he’s won that rap beef in the most unequivocal terms imaginable: “Not Like Us” has been […]

As rumored, Kendrick Lamar appears to have new music on the way, and on Friday morning he dropped a minute-long teaser titled “GNX” that is presumably part of a larger work. The song features a siren-like drone in the background while many multitracked Lamar vocals create a complex, chant-like melody more similar in feel to […]

A day after “Brat” teaser billboards appeared outside several U.S. venues, as expected, Charli xcx has announced dates for a brief U.S. headlining arena tour that will follow her top billing at the 2025 Coachella festival, which also was announced earlier this week. Full dates appear below. The tour follows both her June club tour […]

SongVest, a company that enables fans and investors to purchase fractional shares of music royalties, is opening the reservation period for “Queen SongShares.” From today (Nov. 21) through Thursday, Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. ET, fans can reserve SongShares in four Queen tracks — “Under Pressure,” “It’s A Kind of Magic,” “I Want It All,” […]

Andy Paley, a veteran producer and musician who worked with a wide range of artists including Brian Wilson, the Ramones, Madonna, Jonathan Richman, Elton John, Deborah Harry, NRBQ and many others, died following a brief battle with cancer, a rep confirms to Variety. He also worked extensively in film and television, composing scores and writing […]

The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has been hosting a year-long celebration of Quincy Jones’ life and legacy, and in the wake of the great artist-songwriter-producer-entrepreneur’s passing earlier this month, the series continues with three more of the six celebratory events, which are presented in coordination with USC’s Visions and Voices presenting […]

Toward the end of “The Honorable Shyne,” the flawed yet redeeming Andscape documentary that premiered on Hulu Monday, Moses Barrow — the current leader of the opposition in Belize’s House of Representatives and one-time Diddy protege known as Shyne — ruminates on the life of…sea turtles. By this point in the film, the director Marcus […]

Sony Music today announced the appointment of Taylor Lindsey as Chairman and CEO, Sony Music Nashville, beginning January 2025. She replaces outgoing chief Randy Goodman, who announced his retirement earlier this year. According to the announcement, Lindsey will oversee the company and its creative endeavors as well as Provident Entertainment, the Christian music companies. Lindsey […]

Following their successful tour dates in Asia & Australia, K-Pop titans the Stray Kids have unveiled 20 new performances on their <dominATE> World Tour across Latin America, North America, Europe and the UK.  The tour marks the group’s first full run of stadium dates and long-awaited return following their second world tour, “Maniac”, which successfully held […]

Double-duty on “Saturday Night Live” — as the host and musical guest — is a double-edged sword. The people who are gifted at both, like Donald Glover and Ariana Grande in recent years, usually nail it, appearing in nearly every sketch in the 90-minute show as well as elaborately rendered musical performances. The less-successful tend […]

Peter Sinfield, the colorfully surreal British poet and lyricist who co-founded King Crimson with guitarist-composer Robert Fripp and went on to contribute lyrics to songs by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Celine Dion and Cher, died Thursday in London. The news was confirmed by Fripp on social media; Sinfield (pictured above, left, with Fripp) was 80. […]

 After a teaser run of club dates that he insisted wasn’t a tour, Jack White will celebrate his Grammy-nominated new album “No Name” with a global headline run. The dates appear in full below. The “No Name” tour begins December 1 with a previously announced festival performance at Hong Kong’s Clockenflap Music & Arts Festival and then visits intimate venues […]

Sheldon “Shel” Talmy, the American-born producer behind classic ‘60s songs by the Who, the Kinks, the Easybeats and even a teenaged David Bowie, died at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday, from complications due to a stroke, a rep confirms to Variety. He was 87. A facilitator of the classic Brit Beat sound, Talmy […]