President Donald Trump said the board of the Kennedy Center voted Tuesday to shut down the building for “safety reasons,” coming shortly after a federal judge again ruled that the performing arts center was legally prohibited from adding Trump’s name in any way. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the board of the […]

Singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe has dropped out as an opener on the North American leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after fellow supporting act Macklemore was dismissed for voicing his support for Palestine. In a post on Instagram, the Irish musician also expressed his support for Palestine while explaining why he decided to leave the trek. […]

Mount Sinai Hospital’s Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine has introduced the Sheila Jordan Trailblazer Award, in honor of the legendary jazz singer who passed away in 2025 — and the honoree is her daughter Tracey, a music industry veteran currently working with the Recording Academy and de Passe Entertainment. The Center will present […]

Universal Music Group sued the distribution service DistroKid on Tuesday, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the service infringed on the label’s copyright by pumping out “AI-generated ‘slop’ that siphons revenue and listeners from the legitimate artists and rightsholders.” In the 52-page lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Delaware, UMG and its Capitol […]

The lure of paying tribute to Sheryl Crow in speech and song brought out the big guns at an event honoring the singer-songwriter in Nashville Monday night, as Olivia Rodrigo, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Lauren Daigle, Eric Church and Melissa Etheridge all turned out to turn in stellar covers of Crow’s songs as part of […]

Ed Sheeran has commented on the decision to drop Macklemore from his U.S. Loop tour after the rapper made forceful “free Palestine” comments on stage during a political speech during the rapper’s performances opening for the singer at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Sept. 4 and 5. “I am appalled by the conflict between […]

Oscilloscope Laboratories has landed North American rights to “Game,” a rave thriller marking the feature debut of visual artist John Minton and hailing from Portishead founder Geoff Barrow’s Invada Films banner. A theatrical release is being planned for winter 2027. The film stars Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods and Marc Bessant in their first leading […]

Cliff Smith may be known to most as Method Man, but in “Cupertino,” he is Yungwood. The Wu-Tang Clan member and actor will guest star in the CBS drama series as a rapper who picks a legal fight against an AI music studio that is negatively impacting his streaming revenue. Premiering Oct. 8 and airing […]

The newly retooled 60 Minutes suffered a heavy TV audience falloff in its season premiere, Variety reports. The ratings for the investigative news program’s first episode dropped 21% from the previous season’s premiere, declining from 10.02 million to 7.94 million viewers according to Nielsen data. Additionally, viewers ages 25 to…

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Charli xcx’s “Music, Fashion, Film Tour” is pretty literal. At her Monday, September 14th show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center — just the second stop on the trek — all three elements of that title were on display. There’s the music: a whopping 29 songs, including all 11 from her great new…

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