Robert F.X. Sillerman was the owner of a range of television and radio stations during the 1970s and 1980s, built SFX Entertainment - a concert and stage performance promoter that was sold to Clear Channel in 2000 for $4.4 billion, he was once on the Forbes 300 list, but last month he died in bankruptcy. Billboard […]
Singer Tom Araya looked out across the crowd with misty eyes, guitarist Kerry King dropped his giant metal chain belt on stage, while the arena’s screen showed close-ups of fans openly sobbing at he final Slayer show on Saturday night at the Los Angeles Forum. The members of Slayer warmly embraced each other and their […]
Amazon has unveiled a musical keyboard AWS DeepComposer, a two-octave, 32-key keyboard with a built-in artificial intelligence (AI) which allows users to play a short tune, or use a pre-recorded one, ask the keyboard to embellish it in one of four styles - jazz, classical, rock or pop - and then publish it on Soundcloud. […]
Rapper Trippi Redd comes to the top of Billboard 200 chart with his newest release 'A Love Letter to You 4' sold in 104,000 equivalent album units. 'A Love Letter...' marks the prolific artist’s fourth top 10 album on Billboard 200 in a little over a year. 'A Love Letter to You 4' total units […]
"They stole from hip hop, glam, Motown, rock’n’roll, R&B and even doo-wop with equal ease and evident delight. They picked Phil Spector’s pockets and mugged John Lennon... Somebody should have called the police" - NME says about their choice for the album of the decade.
Coldplay sold 81,000 sold copies of their new album 'Everyday Life', making it the biggest selling album of the week and the third fastest-selling album of the year, behind Ed Sheeran‘No.6 Collaborations Project’ (125,000) and Lewis Capaldi's ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ (90,000). Coldplay also continue their unbroken streak of eight Number 1 studio albums […]
“The ideal of technology and automation should allow us to be more human and more expressive together, not replace us all together” - Holly Herndon shared her thoughts about the effects of artificial intelligence on music (urged by that silly Grimes-Zola Jesus feud). Herndon proposes that AI might be used to move towards an “interdependent” […]
There's better music than Christmas music, but if we have to listen to some of it, it should be good. Rolling Stone combed through it and found - Sufjan Stevens, Weezer, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Motown, Cee Lo etc.
Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon, both 30 years old, were sentenced to six- and five-year prison terms, respectively, after a South Korean court found them guilty on charges that they sexually assaulted women too drunk to give consent and then shared secretly filmed videos of those rapes with friends in a private online chat, the Yonhap […]
Grimes has shared another single from her upcoming album, a guitar-heavy dark and ambient song 'My Name Is Dark'. Grimes' YouTube channel says the song was written, produced, performed, and engineered by her. The album 'Miss Anthropocene' is due February 21. Listen to the song below.
Faith No More announced a return to the road, starting with three European tour dates at Ireland's Sunstroke Festival, France's Hellfest and Norway's Tons of Rock, their first European performances in five years. These festival dates are a solid sign that there will be more activity from the group in 2020. Faith No More released […]
Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese is working on a documentary about 1970s New York City music scene, Variety reports. Upcoming film is one of over a dozen projects Imagine Entertainment’s new documentary wing is currently spearheading. Scorsese is author of documentaries about The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, The Band, and others.
“Sometimes I don’t think that I’m the most relatable female artist. I’m not into make-up or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don’t really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry anymore... Thank you for Australia letting me know that I’m OK just the way I […]
Snoop Dogg today released s vinyl-only lullaby renditions of his songs, XXL Magazine reports. 'Lullaby Renditions of Snoop Dogg' features good-night versions of 'Drop It Like It's Hot', 'Doggy Dogg World', 'Gin & Juice' (watch snippet of this one below), and other hits. It will be released digitally a week later.
"'Silent Scream' was written shortly after I'd woke up in a hotel room not knowing what city I was in or why I was there... By the time I had finished the song, the sun had come up and the hangover I had that morning, I still have to this day" - Andrew Deadman says […]
Post-punk band Adwaith have won the ninth Welsh Music Prize for their album 'Melyn' - a "sharp, groovy and confident" record, the judges said. The Welsh language album saw off competition from 11 other artists, BBC reports. Previous winners have included Gwenno, Gruff Rhys and last year Boy Azooga.
Massive Attack have approached scientists from the University of Manchester to create a blueprint to help bands and pop stars to perform live and tour the world without contributing to climate change. The findings will be shared with musicians from across the industry and, it's hoped, will inspire millions of fans to live more sustainably. Researchers will […]
Moroccan rapper Gnawi was handed a one-year prison sentence Monday by a judge for insulting the police and the king in an unusually outspoken video exposing their country's problems with migration and drugs, Reuters reports. Moroccan authorities have said Gnawi's arrest was prompted by an earlier video in which he insulted the police, a crime […]
Three solo female artists - Celeste, Beabadoobee and Joy Crookes - are nominated for the Brits rising star award for the year 2020 (it was formerly critics’ choice award). In the past, the award was given to Adele, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Rag’n’Bone Man, Jorja Smith, and Sam Fender, Independent reports. Celeste has received critical […]
What PopMatters appreciates about metal is "this livid energy that continues to push the genre in different directions, be it through monolithic drone, otherworldly psychedelia, lavish shoegazing, crust infusions, post-metal applications, or anything else they find interesting", so they made list with that perspective. Waste of Space Orchestra on No. 1 spot proves that point.
The best thing about the Elephant Trees is "that fearless enthusiasm, the upending of genre, and the life-affirming lyrics", PopMatters says about the new Manchester band. On their debut EP 'Monachopsis' they go from brooding synthpop to dynamic, growling alternative rock in a "first chapter in what promises to be a bold and fascinating story".
A great article in the Rolling Stone about Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend how they can't stand each other but still have a tour together and have even made an album. The record, called 'Who' and only the second album from the band in 37 years, was recorded without the two ever being in the […]
The Weeknd previewed a new single 'Blinding Lights' in a Mercedes ad, then unveiled the catchy '80s disco-pop song in an Apple Music radio show (listen below). He released one another - a Metro Boomin’-produced 'Heartless', listen lower below.
Love You Live is a new Billboard series about some of the "most outrageous, delightful and flat-out inspiring production elements of major tours". The first one - The Chainsmokers' World War Joy tour. How did they deserve the "outrageous" label? They had a 6,000-pound sphere Globe of Death hanging over audiences with three motorcyclists whipping around […]
Billboard made a selection of songs that "shaped and reflected the music and culture of the 2010s". Billboard explains "not all of them defined the decade at its best, but for better or worse, it’s close to impossible for us to imagine the decade without any of them". It's not all great music, but it's […]
Secondary ticketing firm Viagogo has struck a deal to buy its rival StubHub for $4bn, a deal that would create a global ticketing giant in the booming live-events business. Geneva-based company Viagogo is buying its rival from eBay, which bought StubHub in 2007 for $310m. Viagogo's boss Eric Baker will be reunited with StubHub, which […]
Guardian has an interesting article about music tourism, a relatively new type of commercial tourism characterised by people travelling somewhere attracted by music. One of the newest is Full Metal Cruise - a music cruise with thousands of metal fans listening to metal bands on a cruise ship. Only in the UK, music tourists spent […]
Guns N' Roses wrapped up their multi-year tour 'Not in This Lifetime' with $584.2 million grossed from 5,371,891 tickets sold. The comeback tour started in 2016, and they played 158 shows in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, as well as 31 European gigs, 15 in Asia, 15 in South America, eight dates in Australia and […]
British spoken-word artist and award-winning podcast creator George the Poet turned down an offer to become a Member of the Order of the British Empire because of the "pure evil" of the British Empire, BBC reports. He explained he sees himself "as student, admirer and friend of Britain, however the colonial trauma inflicted on the […]
The 2010s were a revolutionary decade for the LGBTQ community - Billboard argues, rightly so, and makes a selection of the best LGBTQ album of the last ten years. The criteria: work by queer creatives. The albums are listed in alphabetical order, going from Adam Lambert's 'Trespassing' to Years & Years' 'Communion'.
