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Chicago icons Jennifer Hudson, Chance the Rapper and Quincy Jones have teamed up to reopen and revitalize the Ramova Theatre, located in the South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, after the venue’s nearly 40-year dormancy. With Hudson, Chance and Jones as co-owners, the Ramova will reopen in fall 2023 as a 1,500-capacity live music venue with

When Olivia Rodrigo was approached to write a song for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” she didn’t hesitate. “When they asked me if I was interested in writing for this, I was like, ‘Oh, of course! I’m such a fan of everything ‘Hunger Games.’” Speaking to Variety at the Los Angeles

Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Lil Uzi Vert are just a few of the acts slated to perform at Rolling Loud California 2024, poised to take over Los Angeles from March 15-17. The festival will be held for a second time at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park. The lineup features a large slate of artists including Rae

HYBE, the South Korean label powering K-pop giants BTS and NewJeans, has acquired Exile Music, the music arm of Spanish-language entertainment studio Exile Content. HYBE Latin America will be based in Mexico, per the company’s announcement on Nov. 13, and will be led by its new CEO Kah Jong-Hyun, a former executive at YG Entertainment.

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Any Boygenius head knows that the three beloved members — Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus — have matching tooth tattoos, in reference to the band’s first EP called “Bite the Hand.” Those

A new generation of hitmakers from all over Latin America has been recognized by the Latin Grammys as contenders for the title of best new artists of 2023. With roots in Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, the category is rich and wide-ranging in sound. This year, the Latin Recording Academy selected

YouTube wants to let creators tap into the power of artificial intelligence. But it’s also putting in place new policies requiring creators to indicate when they’ve uploaded AI-generated content — and the video giant also will adopt new ways to request that content that “simulates an identifiable individual” or “mimics an artist’s unique singing or

Since Outkast released their last album in 2006, the Grammy-winning group’s Andre “3000” Benjamin has released a small smattering of songs and memorably guested on tracks by artists ranging from Beyonce to Drake to Frank Ocean, but  has kept fans waiting for his debut solo album. It’s finally dropping Friday, the artist suddenly announced out

Growing streaming subscriptions lifted the bottom line at Tencent Music Entertainment, in the third quarter of its financial year, despite a top line decrease in revenues. Net profits hit $173 million (RMB1.26 billion), representing a 16% year-over-year increase. Tencent Music, which is a major stakeholder in both Spotify and Universal Music Group, reported figures on

Taylor Swift loves the English. The pop star has added two more London dates — Aug. 19 and 20 — to the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour. This brings Swift’s shows in London next year up to a total of eight, starting with three dates in June and followed by five more in

Modhaus, a K-pop platform embracing blockchain for fan engagement, has successfully raised over $8 million in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by Sfermion, a U.S. venture capital firm with expertise in metaverse and Web3 technologies. Joining Sfermion were prominent investors such as SM Culture Partners, Laguna Investment, Globalbrain (KDDI), and Foresight

Two independent management companies in the Asian music scene, MoFo Music and IAMAD, have merged to create a new music production and artist management group, MAD MoFo. The new entity will be led by Hong Kong-based Kelvin Avon and Sydney, Australia-based Philippe-Marc Anquetil. Both are both multi-award winning and multi-platinum selling international producers, songwriters and

What year is it again? The Beatles have charted a top 10 single on this week’s singles chart with “Now and Then” — otherwise known as “the last Beatles song.” The “new” song, which features all four members, including the late John Lennon and George Harrison, hit No. 7 as the band’s first chart-topper on

Former emo kids are called to gather once again at the 2024 edition of When We Were Young, taking place on the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on Oct. 19. The third iteration of the music fest will feature over 50 full-album live performances. The headliners are Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, who will

After a four-year hiatus, Tyler, the Creator’s music festival and carnival returned to Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Nov. 11 and 12. In the years leading up to its pandemic-induced break, Camp Flog Gnaw was quickly becoming one of the most beloved annual music festivals in the area for its Coachella-esque approach to the live

As the music industry explores an updated, more artist-friendly model for streaming royalties, Warner Music has joined Universal in adopting a new “artist centric” model with Deezer in the streaming company’s home country of France. The arrangement has been in effect since Oct. 1, sources confirm to Variety. Broadly speaking, the goal is to reward

“Being a woman is just such a war, forever,” Billie Eilish says. “Especially being a young woman in the public eye. It’s really unfair.” When I arrive at her L.A. studio, Eilish is strumming her acoustic guitar, radiating an effortless cool. She’s so down-to-earth, it’s easy to forget that she won seven Grammys and an

Just weeks after concluding his blockbuster ‘It’s All a Blur’ arena tour, Drake has announced dates for his 2024 U.S. ‘It’s All A Blur Tour – Big As The What?’ tour with J. Cole, presented by Cash App and Visa. J. Cole will be joining Drake across many of the dates on the 2024 run. Produced by

The Smile has announced a new album “Wall of Eyes,” set for release on Jan. 26, 2024, via XL Recordings. The trio, comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood along with drummer Tom Skinner, also put out the album’s title track, accompanied by a black-and-white music video directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson, whose filmmaking

Taylor Swift asked fans at her Buenos Aires concert on Sunday night to not throw objects on stage, saying “it really freaks me out.” During the “Evermore” part of her Eras Tour set, Swift took a pause to address the crowd after a presumed present from a fan landed next to her piano. “Just because

Travis Kelce has touched down — not in the end zone, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Why? To cheer on Taylor Swift, of course. While on a break from her record-breaking Eras Tour, Swift made several appearances at Kansas City Chiefs NFL games to root for rumored boyfriend Kelce, who is a tight end for the

If you’re Gen X and living in Los Angeles, there’s a good chance you were at the Wiltern on Friday night, bathing in nostalgia as Liz Phair performed her seminal 1993 album “Exile in Guyville” in its entirety. Now that the age range for Gen X is between 41 and 56, it was probably inevitable

Taylor Swift has rescheduled her concert tonight in Buenos Aires due to “chaotic” weather. She will perform at the Estadio River Plate stadium on Sunday, Nov. 12, instead. “I love a rain show but I’m never going to endanger my fans or my fellow performers and crew,” Swift wrote on X/Twitter. “We’ve rescheduled tonight’s Buenos

This year’s Grammy noms are a refreshingly diverse look at the past year of music, with a huge number of female artists and racially and musically diverse nominees in the leading categories (see the full list of 2024 Grammy nominations here). Yet as the past few years in particular have shown, leading the Recording Academy,

The Grammy Awards nominations are always full of “yass!”es and “boo!”s, and the 2024 list, which was led by SZA and Phoebe Bridgers, is no exception. Following is our hot take on snubs and surprises, see the full list of 2024 Grammy nominees here. SURPRISE: Women take all. Well, not all, but you get the

The full list of nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards is out, with SZA as the leading nominee, with nine. Other key nominees include Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, Victoria Monét and Billie Eilish, all of whom will be competing against SZA in the record of the year category. The

The path from TikTok phenom to career artist is a challenging one, and while Victoria Beverly Walker — a.k.a. 22-year-old British singer-songwriter PinkPantheress — has navigated it far better than most, a big test comes with “Heaven Knows,” her first conventional full-length album. Conventional because her actual debut album, 2021’s excellent “To Hell With It,” squeezed 10

In June, Silvia Stoyanova paid €300 ($320) for a front-of-stadium ticket to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.  The 140,000 tickets for the July 13 and 14 Eras Tour dates at Milan’s San Siro stadium sold out within a couple of hours, but Stoyanova managed to secure one. “Taylor hasn’t been to Italy for 13 years, the tickets

After the long life of Dua Lipa’s 2020 sophomore album “Future Nostalgia” — which was pandemic dance therapy for so many — there’s been a hot remix album, a year-long world tour, a global hit single with Elton John and her effervescent single from “Barbie,” so it really doesn’t seem like Variety‘s 2022 co-Hitmaker of the Year

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…Jared Leto? It’s no secret that Midtown Manhattanites are often caught up in the hustle of their busy lives. Should they ever take a break and look skyward, they might be treated to a pleasant blue sky. On the morning of Nov. 9, however, they would have seen a