Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

Remembering Richard Taruskin, a writer who made you care about 1,000 years of music : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

UC Berkeley Professor Richard Taruskin, whose 4000-page book The Oxford History of Western Music set a benchmark for writing about the history of classical music. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty hide caption […]

Tencent Music Officially Debuts ‘TME Business Intelligence for Artists’

Tencent Music Will Go Public on December 12th

About 10 weeks after rolling out an international distribution service, Tencent Music (NYSE: TME) has officially launched “TME Business Intelligence for Artists.” Tencent Music, which operates QQ Music, Kugou, and Kuwo in China, just recently […]

Cutting up the dancefloor: the glorious, dubious history of the disco edit | Disco

Larry Levan DJing at Paradise Garage, New York, 1979.

Triumphantly countering the racist, homophobic chumps who burned records during the Disco Sucks movement in the US in the late-70s, disco has continued to thrive in the past four decades. The frequently bombastic, sometimes camp […]

That syncing feeling: how Stranger Things supercharged the music industry | Music

John Cusack in Say Anything.

The impact of Running Up That Hill being used in Stranger Things was so great and so unprecedented that even Kate Bush was taken aback, calling it “quite shocking really” in a rare interview with […]

Metallica Sees Major Streaming Boost After ‘Stranger Things’ Placement

Metallica BlizzCon

Photo Credit: Raph_PH / CC by 2.0 Following the Stranger Things-driven commercial resurgence of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” (1985), Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” (1986) is attracting new listeners of its own after appearing […]

‘Minions’ TikTok Trend of Wearing Suits to See Movie Inspires Theater Bans

‘Minions’ TikTok Trend of Wearing Suits to See Movie Inspires Theater Bans

The record-setting box office success of Minions: The Rise of Gru isn’t without its mini-controversies. As you’ve surely seen on TikTok and elsewhere in recent days, particularly enthusiastic fans of the franchise have been showing […]

BTS rekindle debate about military service in South Korea

BTS rekindle debate about military service in South Korea

Yoon Sang-hyun, the lawmaker who proposed the amendment to include three-week training for K-pop stars, says the extent to which BTS had raised South Korea’s profile through ‘soft power’ should be taken into account when […]

Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 — Twitter Reacts To THAT Heartbreaking Death

Stranger Things 4 Volume 2 -- Twitter Reacts To THAT Heartbreaking Death

“no other character death has EVER hit like this EVER.” Spoilers ahead for “Stranger Things 4” Volume 2. While many “Stranger Things” fans likely braced themselves for the possibility that several characters wouldn’t make it […]

“A Whole New Direction”: Tiësto Says His New Album Will Heavily Embrace House Music – EDM.com

Tiësto Zouk

With house music flourishing at the moment, Tiësto is readying what may be his grooviest album yet.  Tiësto has certainly been a key contributor to the current boom cycle in the genre, achieving big-time commercial success […]