David Byrne and friends rocking out recently at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert. After nearly 60 years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is now officially dissolved. But what does this mean for the music business, […]
Staind‘s Aaron Lewis has announced a 2026 US solo tour. Or, as he’s dubbed it, an “American Tour.” The outing will see Lewis backed by his solo band the Stateliners. The extensive itinerary kicks off […]
Photo Credit: Gilly Spotify’s stock is still sharply on the decline, and more price target downgrades start to reflect that, after the Goldman Sachs downgrade last year. It’s no secret that Spotify’s stock (SPOT) has […]
Photo Credit: Bandcamp Bandcamp takes an official stance against artificial intelligence by banning AI-generated audio and music from its platform. Bandcamp keeps providing users with even more reasons to love its platform. The latest move […]
A few days before Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony, Bryce Dessner admitted with a laugh that he’d come to Los Angeles without a tuxedo — something of a problem, given that he was up for an […]
In June 2024, I sat with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and John Mayer backstage at Sphere in Las Vegas, where Dead & Company was 16 shows into a raved-about weekend residency that would ultimately stretch […]
Local H‘s “Bound for the Floor” is one of great alt-rock songs of the ’90s and undoubtedly the long-running band’s most popular song. It’s natural for concertgoers to get pretty amped when they hear those […]
Photo Credit: Prince by Jimi Hughes / CC by 2.0 Prince’s catalog is seeing a significant streaming boost thanks to two of his biggest hits featuring in the Stranger Things finale on Netflix. Prince’s estate […]
Music Time to hop in the Wayback Machine, and go back to 2013. That was the year Game of Thrones’ Red Wedding shocked everyone, and we were all invested in the latest Hunger Games. And, […]
Hugh Jackman has no shortage of Neil Diamond favorites – and at least three of them helped shape his performance in “Song Sung Blue.” Liz Caplan, the vocal coach and consultant who worked with Jackman […]
If it began to sound a lot like Christmas earlier than usual this year, it wasn’t your imagination. Halloween wasn’t even over before Spotify users began curating songs about mistletoe, snow and presents under the […]
Last fall, James Hetfield said that he didn’t want Metallica to become another “legacy band that just plays their greatest hits.” I’d say releasing a theatrical Christmas cover wouldn’t certainly achieve said goal. That’s right, […]
Back in the spring, Glenn Danzig got into a wee bit of trouble when he was found schlepping merch that featured an apparent Nazi symbol. Now, he’s apparently gone ahead and made another bad (but at […]
Deadmau5, whose catalog was snapped up by Create Music Group earlier this year for $55 million. Music IP acquisitions and dealflow continued to hit record levels in 2025, with billions pouring into catalogs, asset-backed securities, […]
Scrolling past TikToks about oneself. Iceland’s most luxurious lodge. The difference — if indeed there is one? — between a joint and a blunt. These were some of the topics of conversation when The Times […]
All photos courtesy of Magdalena Bay. Magdalena Bay doesn’t just make music; they build universes. What began with a fateful encounter between Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin at their Miami high school, where they bonded […]
Lee Morgan’s 1957 record City Lights will be the latest entry in Blue Note’s heralded Tone Poet series in February 2026. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin […]
Music It is always a delight when two fictional worlds collide in any kind of way. While we really like to see it happen in comic book pages and on screen, it is also just […]
Jorja Smith vocal doppelganger Kaitlin Aragon (Photo: TikTok) Who’s gonna deliver the next crop of AI-generated hits — and who gets to control them? That’s the devilishly difficult question now confronting the music industry, which […]
Is Suno about to face the music — that it just ripped off? For those watching in disbelief as ‘I Run’ started sprinting away on TikTok, Spotify, and seemingly every other platform, perhaps there’s poetic […]