After Giving Drake $400 Million, Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge Is Grabbing A Huge Bag For Himself

After Giving Drake $400 Million, Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge Is Grabbing A Huge Bag For Himself

Lucian Grainge is the CEO of Universal Music Group, the biggest music label in the business. And UMG recently announced via press release that he’s signed a new contract. On the downside (for Lucian), the […]

Ticketmaster Debuts NFT-Gated Ticketing With Avenged Sevenfold

Ticketmaster NFT

Photo Credit: DimzQuitz / CC by 4.0 Ticketmaster prepares to scale up its experimental NFT-gated ticketing concept after a successful run with Avenged Sevenfold. Ticketmaster announced that its Ethereum NFT token-gating feature is now live […]

12 acts we can’t wait to see at Coachella

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While Coachella 2023 headliners Bad Bunny, Blackpink and Frank Ocean will attract the largest crowds and the most IG posts, as ever, it’s the you-saw-them-when acts that will provide future bragging rights to fans in […]

Ex-Daft Punk co-creator Thomas Bangalter releases classical music album : NPR

Ex-Daft Punk co-creator Thomas Bangalter releases classical music album : NPR

Thomas Bangalter, half of the former Daft Punk duo, composed the score for the ballet Mythologies, choreographed by fellow Frenchman Angelin Preljocaj. Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 hide caption toggle caption Jean-Claude Carbonne/Biz 3 Thomas Bangalter, half […]

‘They have inspired composers for centuries’: a first for the seven last words of Christ | Classical music

Composer Alexander Mills

I felt hugely honoured when I was asked to compose a new setting of Christ’s Seven Last Words for Easter this year. I also felt the weight of 500 years of tradition on my shoulders. […]

GOV’T MULE Announces New Studio Album ‘Peace…Like A River’

GOV'T MULE Announces New Studio Album 'Peace…Like A River'

Renowned Grammy-nominated band GOV’T MULE will release a new studio album, “Peace… Like A River”, this spring. The LP’s first single “Dreaming Out Loud”, featuring Ivan Neville and Ruthie Foster, can be streamed below. For […]

Black Angelenos go to Africa for a true Afrobeats experience

A man strokes his beard while wearing a denim jacket

The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home. It was December 2019, and the Los Angeles-based photographer had just touched down in Accra, Ghana, for the first time. What she found […]

‘Air’ review: How Nike bagged Michael Jordan

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One of the pleasures of the movies is the way they can complicate and undermine the idea of history as destiny, taking unbeatable sure things and reminding us that they were once untested, unknown quantities. […]

‘Anything is possible’: why Iceland has become a classical music powerhouse | Classical music

Björk onstage at Reykjavik’s Harpa concert hall in October 2021.

On 31 May 1926, a ship carrying the entire Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra docked in Reykjavík. The musicians stayed in Iceland for 17 days, giving 14 concerts of music by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert at venues […]