New Order announced Monday that Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert will not be joining their show at Primavera in Chile in November “due to personal health reasons.” “Circumstances make it impossible,” the band said in an Instagram post. That leaves frontman Bernard Sumner as the only original member of the seminal post-punk band who will […]

The music streaming service Tidal said on Monday that artists uploading music wholly or substantially created using AI will have them label them as such — and those songs won’t be eligible for royalties. The service’s new AI policy goes into effect July 15, and it also applies to Tidal’s independent artist franchise Tidal Upload. Tidal […]

The funeral of legendary music executive Clive Davis — who died last Monday at the age of 94 after a six-decade career — was every bit as dignified, flawlessly executed and deeply emotional as one of the events he staged or hits he oversaw, with moving speeches from Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Barry Manilow, Dionne […]

Bruce Springsteen once decried TV as a venue that offers “fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on.” He apparently doesn’t feel that way about PBS. “PBS NewsHour” co-anchor Geoff Bennett recently interviewed the musician about the opening of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, the Monmouth University repository of the artist’s archives and a center for […]

Dear 2026: You seem pretty rad, for a year so potentially in malaise. At least, that’s the way we feel every time we turn off the news and turn on the music that takes us away from all that. The best albums from the first half of 2026 didn’t always shut out the outside world […]

John Cameron Mitchell is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film release of Hedwig and the Angry Inch by bringing screenings to wicked little towns across North America. The 2001 film will be screened in 4K across 32 dates that include an audience Q&A and an acoustic set. The tour…

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Last year, Morrissey tried to sell The Smiths — not a song, not a share, but the band’s name, artwork, and merchandising rights. This year, he’s selling merchandise that replaces “The Smiths” with “Morrissey” on artwork inspired by two classic Smiths albums. The designs, based on 1985’s Meat Is Murder…

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Charley Crockett has finally set a new release date for Clovis, the album that disappeared from streaming services this spring. The country renegade announced on social media that the record will officially return to all DSPs on July 3rd through Atlantic Outpost, landing just ahead of Fourth of July weekend.…

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Founding New Order members Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert won’t be joining the band at Fauna Primavera 2026 in Chile later this year or on the road for the “foreseeable future” due to health issues. In an update shared on Instagram, the band revealed, “Due to personal health reasons, Stephen…

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Metallica performed a cover of Tom Jones’ “Delilah” during their concert on Sunday night at Cardiff, Wales’ Principality Stadium, a venue where the song has been banned for the past few years. Throughout Metallica’s long-running “M72 World Tour,” bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett have been honoring acts local…

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