Category: Music
Tributes are flowing for Andrew Penhallow, the dance music visionary who created twin platforms for the genre, exposing millions of young Australians to DJ culture and electronic tunes through his Volition Records label, and in a live setting with Big Day Out’s Boiler Room. U.K.-born Penhallow got his career underway …
× Skip to main content Look at all those movie writers, they’re all so unified and true. Rivers Cuomo of Weezer performs during the 2023 Innings Festival at Tempe Beach Park on February 25, 2023 in Tempe, Arizona. Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage Weezer became the latest stars to support the ongoing Hollywood …
When HAIM stop by Sesame Street, A is for Alana, D is for Danielle, and E is for Este. As for the other letters? Watch the trio sing their ABCs on the children’s show and find out below. Big Bird, Bert, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and other beloved Sesame Street residents were happy …
A Florida man who testified against three former friends who murdered rising rap star XXXTentacion during a robbery five years ago will spend the next two years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday (May 17). Circuit Judge Michael Usan sentenced Robert Allen to seven years in prison, with credit for the five …
Live Nation has expanded its summer concert week promotion with the announcement of Festival Weekend pricing, which will allow fans to buy $99 all-in one-day tickets to more than a dozen festivals across North America. The special price plan will kick off on Friday (May 19) at 10 a.m. ET …
At their show at Terminal 5 in New York on Tuesday, the pop trio MUNA brought out a very special guest to help sing their closing number “Silk Chiffon”: Lorde. Clad in big red pants and a leather jacket, Lorde hopped onto the stage — eliciting thunderous applause from the …
Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos reportedly doesn’t want to write any more new music for the band. In a recent interview with Sakis Fragos for Greece’s Rock Hard magazine, Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder spoke about how Matheos decision affected him. “After we did the last album and Jim he doesn’t wanna …
What were some of the most notable trends on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart in the first quarter of 2023? Hit Songs Deconstructed, which provides compositional analytics for top 10 Hot 100 hits, has released its State of the Hot 100 Top 10: Q1 2023 report. Here are three …
Amanda Shires has announced Loving You, her new album with the late Bobbie Nelson, with a new cover of the George Gershwin standard “Summertime,” featuring Nelson’s brother, Willie. Loving You is due out June 23 (via Silver Knife/ATO). Check out the full tracklist and the video for their rendition of …
Barry’s Must-See Artists for Bonnaroo 2023: The What Podcast Foo Fighters (photo by Timothy Norris), My Morning Jacket, and Korn (photo by Kevin RC Wilson) Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Music | Radio Public | TheWhatPodcast.com | RSS This week on The What Podcast, the floor is Barry’s as he shares his must-sees for Bonnaroo 2023. Listen …
Beyoncé has made her long-awaited return to the stage — on Wednesday night, in Stockholm, Sweden, the legendary pop icon delivered the inaugural performance of the “Renaissance World Tour,” her first solo run of shows since 2016. Opening for herself, Queen Bey kicked off the marathon, three-hour show by performing …
A Freaky Friday sequel is officially in the works at Disney with both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis set to return, according to The Hollywood Reporter. No plot details for the film have been shared, but Elyse Hollander is writing the script. Released in 2003, Freaky Friday was already a remake; it originated as …
Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa have shared a live performance video for their new song “Ya Mughir al-Ghazala,” featuring Iraqi vocalist Karrar Alsaadi. The song appears on Greenwood and Tassa’s forthcoming LP, Jarak Qaribak, which is due out June 9 via World Circuit. Find the performance below. For the new …
1994’s Dookie is often regarded as both Green Day’s best album and one of the greatest punk albums of all time; thus, it’s risky for another band to cover something from it, especially if frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is watching. That’s precisely what happened to English alt-rockers Borderline Toxic last …
Earlier this month, Lizzo partnered with Dove to help promote the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) with an online petition. Her involvement with the project included a statement explaining her support of the bill. “Social media is supposed to be a place where people can express themselves and be a …
Rihanna revealed at CinemaCon today that she will be voicing Smurfette in Paramount Animation’s forthcoming Smurfs movie, Deadline reports. “I tried to get the Papa Smurf role but It didn’t work out,” she apparently joked at the Las Vegas event. Rihanna is also going to write and record original songs …
Rihanna Named Her Son After Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Rihanna (photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) and RZA (photo by Kyle Christy) We now know the name of Rihanna’s first-born child. Per TMZ, the singer named her son with A$AP Rocky: RZA Athelston Mayers. The name is presumably a nod to Wu-Tang …
The Restoring Artistic Protection Act (RAP Act), a bill first introduced last July to protect artists from the wrongful use of their lyrics against them in criminal and civil proceedings, has been re-introduced to Congress by two Democratic congressmen, Hank Johnson and Jamaal Bowman. At a press conference streamed live …
This past Friday (May 12), American heavy metal quintet Avenged Sevenfold played their first concert in nearly five years at AREA15 in Las Vegas. In addition to debuting a few new songs, they pulled out several older favorites and even launched into a spontaneous jam of System of a Down’s …
Skip to main content It’s Friday and we have new music from Ed Sheeran, Aespa, Armani White, and more. Yung Miami spoke about her sexuality during an interview on The Jason Lee Show. Armani White chats with Billboard News on his new music. And more! ad {{ result.published_at | date: …
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea is a man of many talents and interests, including acting, writing and even humorously TMI social media posts. It’s no wonder, then, why his recently revealed list of his top five authors (based on how many books by each he owns) is so diverse …
Top Gun: Maverick actress Monica Barbaro is in final talks to portray Joan Baez in a forthcoming Bob Dylan biopic, The Hollywood Reporter reports and Searchlight Pictures representatives confirmed to Pitchfork. The film, directed and co-written by James Mangold, will star Timothée Chalamet as Dylan. Earlier this month, Mangold said …
Is something brewing in the desert? It certainly appears so as AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Tool and Ozzy Osbourne have all shared social media teasers suggesting that they’ll be playing an event called Power Trip this fall. The same shared promo for all four acts features portions of magazines being …
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Jimmy Page is sharing with Led Zeppelin fans a previously unreleased demo titled “The Seasons” to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the band’s Houses of the Holy album. The song should sound quite familiar to Zeppelin fans as “The Seasons” is an instrumental guitar piece that would go on to …
Elektra Records co-president Mike Easterlin has departed his role at the label but will continue working with Warner Music Group as a consultant for its artist services division, WMX, the executive revealed in an email to staff obtained by Billboard. Gregg Nadel will continue as sole president of the label, …
In a new interview, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello spoke about the band’s uncertain future for the first time since Rage canceled their 2023 tour following an injury to vocalist Zack de la Rocha. In 2022, the group returned to the stage for the first time in over a …
× Skip to main content The clips join the previously released videos for “Eyes Closed” and “Boat” to tell a powerful story of pain and healing. Ed Sheeran Annie Leibovitz Ed Sheeran unveiled his sixth studio album Subtract on Friday (May 5), but he had one more surprise later in …
Underoath have parted ways with longtime guitarist James Smith, as Smith explained in a statement. The rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist had been part of Underoath since 2003, apart from a brief hiatus Smith took midway through his tenure with the prominent metalcore band. He’s played on all Underoath albums since …
The Twisted Sister anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It” has been co-opted for a number of campaigns and causes over the years, sometimes with and sometimes without the approval of the band. But with another school shooting in Nashville making headlines this week, frontman Dee Snider answered a fan on …
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