Miley Cyrus is continuing to embrace her rocker side. The “Plastic Hearts” singer sat down with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich for the Fall 2021 issue of Interview Magazine to discuss what it’s been like for them to be onstage again after the long COVID-19 pandemic lay-off, hitting up the festival circuit and their fiery collaboration on his band’s […]

“If nobody lived in the world, I would still be singing,” Tems tells Billboard, “because it’s something I need to heal.” The quickly blossoming Nigerian artist and Since ’93/RCA signee is seated facing a mirror in the walk-in-closet-sized dressing room of the Manhattan venue Sounds of Brazil, surrounded only by a few members of her team. It’s her

The initial list of showcasing performers at next year’s 36th annual SXSW Music Festival was released on Wednesday (Oct. 20) and it includes Blackstarkids, Ezra Furman, Surfbort, Horsegirl,  Aeon Station and many more. After going virtual in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the iconic music gathering will take place in Austin, Texas from march

Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy sparkles with her haunting, downtempo cover of Petula Clark’s iconic 1964 hit “Downtown” in the trailer for Last Night in Soho. In the preview, Taylor-Joy, her voice slathered in echo, stands behind a mic in a recording studio and croons the track’s iconic hook, “When you’re alone and life is making

K-pop royalty, gifted rapper, cutting-edge pop star — CL has already lived plenty of lives in the music industry. From her days in the pioneering K-pop girl group 2NE1 to her time as a solo artist, the South Korean singer (real name: Lee Chaelin) has helped push the business into a global era: a place where language and genre barriers

Concord, one of music’s biggest independent companies, is exploring a sale, according to a source familiar with the situation – a deal that would likely top $4 billion, based on Billboard’s estimates. If the record label and music publisher does hit the auction block, it would be an attractive target for one of the three

Contemporary Christian Music band We The Kingdom — known for their Billboard Christian Airplay chart-toppers “Holy Water” and “God So Loved” — will ring in the holiday season with the six-song EP A Family Christmas, which is due out on Friday (Oct. 22). The project’s name is appropriate, given that the band includes hit CCM producer/songwriter

The public will soon learn a lot more about pop music dealmaking thanks to a marathon libel case headed to trial. On Tuesday, as the legal battle between Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald and Kesha Rose Sebert continues to progress after seven years in court, New York Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter rejected Sony Music’s concerns and

Music Tectonics has unveiled the full schedule and list of speakers for its hybrid 2021 music tech conference, which is slated to run from Oct. 25-27 online and at an in-person gathering in Los Angeles on Nov. 2. Highlights of this year’s lineup include a fireside chat featuring former Spotify economist Will Page and music consultant

R. Kelly is headed to trial Aug. 1 on a second set of criminal charges related to child pornography, a Chicago federal judge decided at a Wednesday (Oct. 20) court hearing, during which an attorney also disclosed that the disgraced singer was briefly under suicide watch following last month’s sex trafficking conviction. In a hearing