Warner Records Nashville laid off five staff members on Tuesday (Nov. 3), Billboard has confirmed, including executive vp of marketing Victoria “Torie” Mason and...
Goodbye, Elphaba! Hello, Afeni! Cynthia Erivo has officially been cast as Tupac Shakur’s mother, the late former Black Panthers activist Afeni Shakur, in Universal...
Patti LaBelle, Common, Public Enemy and label executives Nicole Wyskoarko and Tina Davis were among the esteemed honorees feted at the Black Music Action...
California rapper and producer Ovrkast is pushing back against a lawsuit filed by influential hip-hop duo Outkast. The complaint accuses the rising artist of...
Artist and social activist Common was presented with SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange’s inaugural Artist Impact Award at The Luckman Club/Soho West Hollywood on Thursday afternoon...
Clearly, Swifties stuck around for The Encore. On Friday (Sept. 25), Spotify announced that Taylor Swift became the most-streamed female artist in a single...
What happens when you give 50 songwriters, producers, creators, and collaborators free rein in one marathon creative session? E.l.f Cosmetics has the answer to...
Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley have joined the cast of an untitled Fred Astaire biopic, starring Tom Holland as the lauded triple-threat performer. Deadline...
A legendary Nashville institution is celebrating Canadian country music. Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry has unveiled a grand celebration for Oct. 29 titled “Grand Ole...
The throughline of Leon Bridges’ decade-plus career has been his voice. Because Bridges’ honeysuckle tenor lends itself so naturally to early-Sixties soul, Bridges got...
The final New Music Friday of September certainly didn’t disappoint! Taylor Swift leads this week’s round-up with “Patient Zero,” the new single from The...