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Shortly after Paramount began pulling back its funding for Save the Music, which has donated instruments and tech equipment worth nearly $78 million to 2,800 U.S. schools, John Sykes held a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board meeting in spring 2024. “This is the perfect fit for what we’re doing,” he told the group. […]
What time is it? Almost Winter Olympics time, which these days means that Public Enemy hype man Flavor Flav is picking which Team USA squads he’s going to support in the upcoming Winter Olympics. Flav, 66, who has cooked up a high-profile side gig as a rabid vocal, and financial, supporter of a number of […]
Despite the challenge flags thrown by Donald Trump and some fellow Republicans, Jay-Z is 100% firm in his support for Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl halftime show next year. Amid criticism from the President and a number of commentators on the right decrying the choice of one of the world’s most popular artists to […]
The Boss is very much back. Just days after walking the red carpet (and delivering a typical powerhouse performance) for Disney’s biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Bruce Springsteen made another surprise appearance, this time for Steven Van Zandt’s Party at the Pony. Per Rolling Stone, Springsteen joined his decades-long bandmate on stage Sunday, Oct. […]
With two nominations, Ninajirachi could seriously cash in at the first-ever New South Wales Music Prize, the finalists for which were unveiled on Monday, Oct. 27. The Central Coast-raised artist, DJ and producer’s 2024 girl EDM collection is shortlisted for the main prize, the most lucrative in the Australian music industry which carries with it […]
Australia’s creative industries are savoring a “significant” victory, as the federal government stamps out controversial proposals that would weaken copyright law in the AI age. A slew of tech companies had lobbied for an amendment to Australia’s Copyright Act, outlined in Harnessing Data and Digital Technology, the Productivity Commission’s interim report which recommended a new […]
LE SSERAFIM’s new collaboration with BTS’ j-hope has topped this week’s new music poll. In a poll published Friday (Oct. 24) by Billboard, music fans chose the powerhouse team-up’s “Spaghetti” as their favorite new release of the week. Related Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Surprises Fans With DJ Set Alongside Fred again.. in Paris Megan Thee […]
Since Pinkpantheress first snuck into cool kids’ playlists with 2021’s “Break It Off” — and truly exploded into the world of mainstream pop with 2023’s Ice Spice-assisted “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2” — the British singer-songwriter has consistently offered an incisive reflection of Gen Z’s Internet-driven, hyper-self-aware, irony-anchored humor and culture. Her bite-sized tracks helped […]
Billie Eilish has been touring for well over a year at this point. She’s probably exhausted — it would be understandable if she was sick and tired of life on the go — but if either of those things were true, the thousands of fans at the UBS Arena in New York on Saturday night […]