Because it’s not enough for just one vintage Stevie Nicks song to have reentered the zeitgeist (see: the TikTok “Dreams” resurgence), Miley Cyrus is doing her best to make sure that history quickly repeats itself by pushing another Nicks favorite, “Edge of Seventeen,” back into public prominence. Late Thursday night, Miley released what is officially
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Bee Gees alumnus Barry Gibb dropped a duet with Jason Isbell late Thursday night in announcing a forthcoming project that has him sharing lead vocals on his catalog material with a dozen mostly Nashville-based artists. The Gibb/Isbell track, “Words of a Fool,” which can be heard below, is the first official recording of a song
For a musical genre whose rapid rise and notorious fall has made it an easy point of comparison for everything from the dot-com bubble to the decline of Beanie Babies, disco music never really went away. Sure, there have been lean times ever since a crowd of rock and roll reactionaries formally declared war at
Richard Allan “Dickie” Kline, known for his stint as head of radio promotion at Atlantic Records, died Tuesday at 82. His family cited natural causes. Kline, a short, energetic powerhouse of a man, was both self-assured and a fast talker. While senior VP at Atlantic Records, he managed to break such acts at radio as
In the Q&A session at the end of the Live Nation third quarter earnings report on Thursday, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino had some strong words for former WME music chief Marc Geiger’s recently announced “SaveLive” plan to bail out struggling independent concert venues via a joint-venture that would see Geiger and investors taking 51%
Christmas is now underway on radio across the country, as stations flip to all-holiday formats a bit earlier than usual. In some smaller markets, such as WWIZ in Youngstown, Pa., the move to wall-to-wall seasonal tunes happened as early as late September. But this week, major stations in key cities such as Los Angeles’ KOST
Live Nation, the world’s largest live-entertainment company, accentuated the positive wherever possible in its second full quarter with almost no live entertainment in its Q3 earnings report Thursday. That emphasis is on what will happen when concerts return, which it continues to project for next summer. The company says 83% of fans are keeping tickets
Brax, a social media influencer and rapper, has died at the age of 21. Born Braxton Baker, she was working on two albums and three novels at the time of her death, according to an Instagram post from her mother, Letricia Loftin, on Thursday. The specifics of Brax’s death are still unclear. “At the time
The Recording Academy has announced the appointment of Kelley Purcell as Vice President of Membership & Industry Relations, effective immediately. According to the announcement, the appointment follows the Recording Academy’s recent restructure, which aims to streamline the organization and sharpen focus on its service to music. Reporting to Chief Industry Officer Ruby Marchand, Purcell will
Capitol Music Group Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett will retire on December 31, 2020, the company announced today, capping a 50-year career in the music business, including eight years at the helm of CMG. Barnett announced his long-planned decision to the full company this morning, in conjunction with Universal Group Chairman & CEO Lucian Grainge. The two also
Republic Records has signed 14-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter Angelina Jordan, who won “Norway’s Got Talent” as an eight-year-old and will release her first single, “Million Miles,” self-written and produced by hitmaking duo Stargate (Beyonce, Rihanna, Sam Smith), on Friday. A musical prodigy, Jordan began studying classic singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong
The “In Memoriam” factor will be high on next week’s CMA Awards telecast, as an all-star opening tribute to Charlie Daniels will be followed during the ABC telecast by individual performers’ salutes to the late Kenny Rogers and Joe Diffie. All three of these tributees died this year. The homages to country music’s dearly departed
Ken Hensley, keyboardist, guitarist and chief songwriter for long-running British hard rock band Uriah Heep, died Wednesday, according to a post by guitarist Mick Box on the band’s official Twitter account. He was 75. 5th November 2020: I received devastating news this morning from Ken’s manager Steve Weltman that Ken Hensley has passed away. My
Global superstars BTS are set to perform at this year’s Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMA, Asia’s largest music awards ceremony. Entertainment and lifestyle company CJ ENM announced the news of BTS’ performance on Wednesday night. With the release of their new album “BE (Deluxe Edition)” approaching on Nov. 20, the group’s performance is sure
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 4, Episode 6 of “The Masked Singer,” which aired Nov. 4 on Fox. Bob Saget doesn’t demand a recount. The comedian may be disappointed that his time on “The Masked Singer” is over, but he’ll accept the results. (Scroll down to watch his
Jack White. The Strokes. Foo Fighters — that lineup of “Saturday Night Live” musical guests could easily have come from 2002 instead of 2020 … and in fact, all three of those artists did perform on the show that year or in 2003 (with White as frontman of the White Stripes). For a show that
The musical guest for this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” post-election episode is perhaps apt given that one of their most famous songs is “Everlong,” which also happens to describe the current state of affairs in the election. Foo Fighters have been announced as the musical guest to accompany host Dave Chappelle on the Nov. 7
A deluxe edition send country star Luke Combs’ “What You See Is What You Get” back to the top of the album chart nearly a year after it came out, while, in second place, Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You” was the week’s top-debuting album. Springsteen was No. 1 when it came to actual album sales,
In an Election Night post from a Denny’s, Lana Del Rey gave an update on her forthcoming album “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” (it’s delayed), promised a “digital record of American standards and classics for Christmas,” and posted a lovely version of the 1945 showtune “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (which was recorded separately, not at
Arcade Fire debuted a topical new song called “Generation A” on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’s” live election-night special Tuesday. The song, with its chorus of “I can’t wait,” is oddly appropriate for the situation the world found itself in on Wednesday morning, as the election’s outcome remains unclear. Colbert introduced the song as
In a nice bit of news on an anxiety-ridden Election Day, the city council of North Augusta, South Carolina voted unanimously to name a new outdoor amphitheater in the town after Sharon Jones, the powerhouse soul singer who fronted the Dap-Kings and passed away in 2016 from cancer. Jones grew up near the location of the Riverside
In 1988, the year Tracy Chapman unexpectedly took the world by storm, the presidential matchup was between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, but the sentiments expressed in her song “Talkin’ Bout a Revolution” are, if anything, even more poignant today, 32 years later. Chapman was clearly aware of that context when she performed that
On the night before the election, Britney Spears posted a video addressing fans’ concerns about her well-being as the legal proceedings and controversy around her ongoing conservatorship continue. “Hi. So I know that there have been a lot of comments and a lot of people saying a lot of different things about me, but I
President Trump had a surprise guest at his final campaign rally on Monday night — 20-year-old rapper and recent MAGA supporter Lil Pump. However, Trump mistakenly called the “Gucci Gang” rapper “Little Pimp” when introducing him to the crowd. Trump finished his 2020 re-election campaign with a late-night rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., that went
Anyone who thinks the Recording Academy takes something like changing the name of a Grammy Awards category lightly should take a gander at the letter that went to members Monday: After extensive deliberation, the decision has been made to change the World Music Album category to Global Music Album. “As we continue to embrace a
Originally planned for this March but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first appearance of Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” Monday touched on everything from the death of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell to the origin story of classic Pearl Jam songs to advising Bradley Cooper about “A Star Is
Cam (nee Camaron Ochs), a California girl turned Nashvillian, came out of the gate as a country music firebrand in 2015 with the massive hit “Burning House.” Then she waited five years to release a sophomore album, spending part of that time at odds with her record company (Sony Nashville) over “value” issues she’s reluctant
Triller has named Daniel Gillick global co-head of partnerships, the company announced Monday. Most recently, he was senior manager of music content and industry relations at TikTok, where he was one of of the company’s first hires in the area of music operations. Last month, Triller brought on Mary Rahmani, TikTok’s former director of music
In today’s TV news roundup, Taraji P. Henson will host the American Music Awards, and NBC released a trailer for the eighth season of “The Blacklist.” FIRST LOOKS NBC released a trailer for the eighth season of “The Blacklist.” Season 8 finds Raymond Reddington (James Spader) facing his most worthy adversary yet in Elizabeth Keen
Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, who goes by the more pedestrian name Bobby Hall, but is better known to the music world as recently retired (and usually bespectacled) rapper Logic, has put his sprawling estate in a low-profile but high-dollar gated enclave in L.A.’s affluent Calabasas suburb up for grabs at a buck less than