In writing an album that is largely about loss and calling it “Good Grief,” singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is clearly playing with the wording of that common phrase, finding a way to make it feel literal, not like an oxymoron. That carries over to the similarly titled documentary, “Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,” that is having its […]

Fresh off of rejecting a takeover proposal from capital fund Pershing Square, Universal Music has announced it is repurchasing a sizable portion of its stock back from the company founded and operated by billionaire investor Bill Ackman. The world’s largest record company will repurchase over 14.2 million shares from Pershing, worth about $290.5 million (€250 […]

Forbes lists are largely a status symbol for the 1%, but as the business publication has expanded its purview — and as the music business has grown legit billionaires — its lists and criteria have grown. Pegged to its four-year-old Iconoclast conference is an “Iconoclast 50” list released on Wednesday, and its vague criteria — recognizing […]

Country star Alan Jackson’s farewell concert, set for June 29 in Nashville, will be filmed for an NBC special, to be titled “Alan Jackson: The Last Show,” with an unspecified air date later in 2026, the network announced Thursday. The special is being directed by Sam Wrench, best known for the 2023 feature film “Taylor […]

Prince’s legendary “Vault” is so filled with unreleased recordings that it can be difficult to know where to begin — a deluxe boxed set focused just on his classic 1987 “Sign O’ the Times” album added up to eight CDs, and it didn’t even contain half of that album’s outtakes. The late artist’s estate has taken […]

Olivia Rodrigo told Dazed magazine in a new interview ahead of the release of her third studio album that she was “enraged” last fall when she was scrolling on her phone and discovered that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security was using her song “All-American Bitch” to promote ICE deportations. “It was so deeply disturbing to […]

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Doja Cat took to X on Wednesday to request that the platform’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, reinstate the “audio post” feature. It’s not likely the Grammy winner will get her way, however, because she slammed the tech mogul as a “frog build looking bitch” in the same breath. “Hey Elon if u see this please […]

“Get the truth.” That was the simple directive director and executive producer Alexandria Stapleton received from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson when she started working on “Sean Combs: The Reckoning.” The four-part Netflix documentary traces the allegations of sexual assault, trafficking and legal battles surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs. Stapleton and Jackson had begun their work together […]

Primary Wave Music has announced a partnership with the Grammy-winning Mexican outfit Intocable. Terms of the deal will see the publisher partner with the veteran group on their catalog of music, as well as name, image and likeness. Formed in the early 1990s, the group has sold more than 4 million albums, won two Grammys, […]