Zach Bryan, 2022’s breakout country star, has made good on his strongly stated vow to avoid Ticketmaster for his next tour, as he announced a spring/summer 2023 tour that will use AXS for ticketing purposes, via a “Fair AXS” registration system. His announcement of the “Burn Burn Burn North American Tour” Thursday prominently refers to
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UPDATED: The Rolling Stones and frontman Mick Jagger have officially joined TikTok — angling to introduce a new generation of music fans to the 60-year-old British rock band and its classic tunes. Jagger has joined TikTok (at @jagger) after band mate Keith Richards (@officialkeef) arrived on the platform last year. In Jagger’s first TikTok video,
Alexandria Bombach’s “It’s Only Life After All,” which tells the story of the folk rock duo Indigo Girls, is not your typical music documentary. For one, the doc’s stars, singer-songwriters Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, are not producers on the film. Two, during production no topic was off-limits. Three, Ray and Saliers were the only
Milana Lewis is the co-founder and CEO of the distribution and payments platform Stem. Just before the holidays, multinational media companies’ favorite complaint resurfaced: The App Store’s 30% take is too high. It’s interesting to see multi-billion-dollar companies cast themselves as underdogs in a fight against all-powerful Apple, but if the DSPs want to complain
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have already proven that their second shot at romance has worked. The two married in July, about 20 years after they first set the world on fire as Bennifer from 2002 to 2004. Now, Lopez says she and her hubby may reunite on the big screen. They infamously co-starred in
Fall Out Boy lead guitarist Joe Trohman is stepping away from the band for the foreseeable future, the group announced Wednesday evening. Fall Out Boy shared a statement attributed to Trohman on social media, in which the musician cited mental health troubles as the overwhelming factor behind the decision to exit the band. “Without divulging
When Madonna revealed dates for “Madonna: The Celebration Tour,” a career-spanning live extravaganza, the speculation surrounding the setlist led the conversation. While the Queen of Pop is tightlipped about specifics, a couple of tidbits can be gleaned from the star-studded tour announcement. In a video that pays tribute to her 1990 documentary “Truth or Dare,”
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Mn.) and Mike Lee (R-Ut.) — chairwoman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights — have stated that the previously announced Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the lack of competition in the ticketing industry will be held at 10:00 am on Tuesday, Jan.
Dolly Parton has confirmed a star-studded guest list that’s set to appear on her forthcoming rock album, including Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Pink and Brandi Carlile. On Tuesday, the country icon appeared on an episode of “The View” and discussed the highly anticipated project, telling co-host Joy Behar: “If I’m going to be
Van Conner, who co-founded the legendary Northwest alternative band Screaming Trees with his brother Gary Lee and singer Mark Lanegan, has died, according to a social media post from his brother. He was 55. “Van Conner bassist and song writer of Screaming Trees died last night of an extended illness at 55,” his brother wrote.
Rumors of a Boygenius resurrection — and first actual full album from the much-vaunted supergroup — have not been exaggerated. The trio, consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, confirmed Wednesday that their first release through Interscope, an album titled “The Record,” will be out March 31, just a couple of weeks prior
Has Margo Price got it made? That’s a question implicitly asked by the title of her recent book, “Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir,” which effectively ends with the singer-songwriter getting a big break as she’s booked on “Saturday Night Live” in 2016, with a nod toward the best new artist Grammy nomination that followed
Sade Adu, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Electric Light Orchestra mastermind Jeff Lynne, Alanis Morrisette collaborator Glen Ballard, New Jack Swing icon Teddy Riley and Taylor Swift collaborator Liz Rose will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the organization’s 52nd annual Induction and Awards Gala. The event is scheduled for Thursday, June 15, at its longtime
Fall Out Boy has signed with Fueled by Ramen/ Elektra Records and announced its first studio album in four years, titled “So Much (for) Stardust,” coming March 24. The announcement comes with the release of single “Love From the Other Side,” which Fall Out Boy will perform on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night. The band
Robert Kyncl (pictured) has made his first major hire as CEO of Warner Music Group, bringing in a former colleague from YouTube for a newly-created role. Tim Matusch joins the company as executive VP of strategy and operations, and like Kyncl, will be based out of WMG’s headquarters in New York. Matusch was previously managing
Lil Yachty has revealed the artwork and release date for his forthcoming album, “Let’s Start Here,” set to debut Jan. 27 on Quality Control Music and Motown Records. Ever the provocateur, the rapper’s new cover art previews an AI-generated image of what seems to be seven executives sitting next to each other in suits. With
SZA’s “SOS” holds at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart for a fifth consecutive week, accomplishing more than one notable victory on the way. Fueled by the release of a new music video for “Kill Bill,” a track inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s female-fronted martial arts movies, “SOS” collects the equivalent of 125,000 album units sold
YouTube and Goldenvoice, producer of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, renewed their exclusive livestream and content partnership for the annual event through 2026. The upcoming Coachella 2023 festival will mark the 11th year that YouTube is serving as its exclusive worldwide livestreaming partner. Coachella, which is North America’s largest music festival, has already
Seventeen years ago, when I left school in Minnesota one science credit shy of a music business degree, I thought I knew exactly what to do to become a professional musician. It was 2005, the industry had just been turned upside down by Napster and iTunes, and while my studies at this (now defunct) music
“Anti-Hero” has officially become Taylor Swift’s biggest single to date by at least one metric: It’s topped the Billboard Hot 100 now for eight non-consecutive weeks. That’s one more than the seven weeks her previous leader in that ranking, “Blank Space,” managed back in 2014-15. “What on earth — I love you guys,” Swift wrote
Tomorrow X Together has unveiled Asia and U.S. dates for its “Act: Sweet Mirage” world tour that kicks off with two nights in Seoul, South Korea. The U.S. leg of the 21-date trek will begin May 6 in Charlotte, North Carolina before wrapping up in Los Angeles. This will be the second world tour, a
Indie sleaze is back in bloom, as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT and Future Islands lead the 2023 lineup for Just Like Heaven Fest, taking place May 13 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. The Goldenvoice music festival will feature sets from Empire of the Sun, M83, Hot Chip, Caribou and recently reunited
The Weeknd has dropped the video for “Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength),” the theme song from the film “Avatar: The Way of Water.” The clip, was directed by Quentin Deronzier and comes from the production company La Pac. The song was written by the Weeknd and produced by Swedish House Mafia along with Simon
Kendrick Lamar, Lizzo and Odesza are the headliners for New York’s three-day Governors Ball Music Festival, taking place June 9-11 in the new location of Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of two World’s Fairs. Lil Nas X, Lil Baby, Lil Uzi Vert, Haim, Diplo and Giveon are also on the lineup, which appears in
SiriusXM has recruited Suzi Watford, most recently chief marketing and membership officer at Dow Jones, for a newly created role leading the satellite radio and audio-streaming company’s growth strategy. Watford has been named senior VP and chief growth officer for SiriusXM, based at the company’s New York City headquarters and reporting to chief commercial officer
As expected, Madonna has announced dates for “Madonna: The Celebration Tour,” in a viral video with a wink to her 1990 film “Truth or Dare.” The video features Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Lil Wayne, Diplo, Bob the Drag Queen, Kate Berlant, Larry Owens, Meg Stalter, Eric Andre and culminates with Amy Schumer daring Madonna to go on tour and perform her four
“What’s the trick,” Jack White asks, in one of his most-played recent songs, “in making my love stick?” That’s a good rhetorical question, to which anyone who’s seen him in concert lately can provide plenty of tangible answers — all of them there for the grasping during a breathtakingly good, long set Friday night at
LCD Soundsystem is playing at your house — at least, they are, were or will be if you’re queuing up “White Noise,” which is showing up on Netflix after an awards-qualifying run in theaters. This may mark one of the few times in film history that a lot of viewers have been tempted to fast-forward
Not even a torrential downpour could stop alternative rock fans from packing Los Angeles’ Kia Forum on Saturday night for iHeartRadio’s annual Alter Ego Festival. With a bill bringing together Fall Out Boy, Chvches, Phoenix, Muse, Jack White and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, spirits were high inside the venue despite slippery floors and drenched
Former record industry mogul Jerry Moss — the “M” in A&M Records, the label that he and Herb Alpert started in the early 1960s — got a partial payback for all the faith he put in artists during that company’s decades-long run in the form of a tribute concert Saturday night at the Mark Taper