After a year of Zoom raves and Twitch livestreams, real-life dance music events across the United States are making a comeback. Memorial Day Weekend was the first major test: festivals including Orlando’s Skyline and Denver’s SerotonINN Sound Series welcomed physical crowds with open arms, while others like SoCal’s Lightning in a Bottle chose to remain virtual. […]

The Kid LAROI’s star keeps rising higher and higher in 2021. Just a few months after the Australian singer-rapper notched his first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the Miley Cyrus-featuring version of his “Without You” ballad, he eclipses that breakout hit this week, with the top 5 debut of his Justin

Coldplay’s return isn’t a fleeting one. And this time, they’re taking fans on an interstellar journey. The British pop-rock giants announced on Tuesday (July 20) a new full-length album, Music of the Spheres, and also announced the upcoming track, “Coloratura,” which arrives Friday (July 23). Legendary producer Max Martin is behind the desk on the new

Like many independent filmmakers during the age of COVID-19, Tamara Saviano had to become creative in getting her documentary on Guy Clark, Without Getting Killed Or Caught, in front of an audience. Originally, the Sissy Spacek-narrated film on the revered Texas singer-songwriter, which Saviano wrote with Bart Knaggs (in part based on her 2016 biography

When Mary J. Blige listened to her recording of “Spinnin” for Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis’ new album, Jam & Lewis Volume One, she asked Jam (birth name: James Harris) to convey a message to his partner: “‘You tell Terry that he killed me on that vocal, but it’s amazing,’” he recalls her saying. Blige

Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos launched into space on Tuesday, carried aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft in its first human flight. Bezos, the richest person in the world, was joined by his brother, Mark Bezos, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and a Dutch student, Oliver Daemen. There was no live video from the capsule as it

Bluegrass and country star Alison Krauss, trailblazing female bandleader-banjoist Lynn Morris and early influencers The Stoneman Family are the 2021 inductees into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place on Sept. 30 during the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, N.C. Krauss

The past month has brought a flurry of action in Britney Spears’ battle to end a 13-year conservatorship that the singer has claimed in court testimony is smothering and abusive. Now, two members of the House of Representatives have stepped forward to introduce legislation that might make it easier for people like Spears to ask

While Wu-Tang Clan’s late ‘Ol Dirty Bastard once famously stated that his group was “for the children,” Lil Nas X makes no such promises. In fact, hip-hop’s reigning master of pot-stirring issued a very urgent warning to parents about the visual for the upcoming Kanye West co-produced single. “saying this in advance so y’all won’t

Warner Music Group has acquired the assets of 12Tone Music, the indie company started by decorated industry veteran Doug Morris in 2018, the companies announced today (July 20). The deal, signed and set to close at the end of the month, covers 12Tone’s catalog and roster, which includes Anderson .Paak (signed alongside Aftermath), ILLENIUM, Dolly