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ajc.com - Savannah Sicurella - Bill passes to establish a Georgia Music Office to support industry
Bill passes to establish a Georgia Music Office to support industry
ajc

The state has a wealth of recording studios and rehearsal spaces, multipurpose venues, nightclubs, bars and restaurants with music programs. Other businesses essential to the music industry call Georgia home, from instrument manufacturer Gretsch…

dailymail.co.uk - Conor O'brien - Deaf Repair Shop guest left in tears hearing music box for first time
Deaf Repair Shop guest left in tears hearing music box for first time
Mail Online

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk Not sure what to watch tonight? Discover our brand new TV GUIDE now! A deaf guest on The Repair Shop fought back tears after experts 'gave her back a piece of her soul' by restoring her childhood…

theguardian.com - Mark Fisher - Kiss of the Spider Woman review - Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival
Kiss of the Spider Woman review - Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival
The Guardian

Kander and Ebb's early-90s musical is having a moment. Next week, Bill Condon's movie, starring Diego Luna, Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez, goes on general release. And here, touring to Bristol and Southampton, is a slick, earnest revival by director…

androidauthority.com - Ryan McNeal - YouTube Music finally lets you get chatty while listening to albums
YouTube Music finally lets you get chatty while listening to albums
Android Authority

YouTube Music has rolled out an update that brings a change to Albums. Albums now have a comment section, like individual songs and podcasts. Whether you hate them or love them, comments are a core part of the YouTube experience. That's not just…

hollywoodreporter.com - Ethan Millman - Labrinth Not Involved in 'Euphoria' Season 3 Music
Labrinth Not Involved in 'Euphoria' Season 3 Music
The Hollywood Reporter

Labrinth is not featured on the music for Season 3 of Euphoria, The Hollywood Reporter can confirm, with Hans Zimmer taking the composer duties on his own. Zimmer had previously been confirmed to be collaborating with Labrinth for the show's music…

variety.com - Jem Aswad - Latin Music's U.S. Revenue Tops $1 Billion, Per RIAA Report
Latin Music's U.S. Revenue Tops $1 Billion, Per RIAA Report
Variety

If Bad Bunny's galvanizing Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8 didn't make it crystal clear, new figures from the Recording Industry Association of America released today should: Latin music is American music (and, of course, not just American, as…

independent.co.uk - Mark Kennedy - Pink to host the 2026 Tony Awards on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall
Pink to host the 2026 Tony Awards on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall
The Independent

The Tony Awards have turned to a singer with a reputation for a high-energy, physical live show to be the next telecast host — Pink. The three-time Grammy Award winner will make her debut as MC for the awards on June 7 at its familiar home…

billboard.com - Thomas Smith - WU LYF on Long-Awaited Comeback and Innovative Membership Model: 'Our Music Asks for Participation. We Don't Make Background Music'
WU LYF on Long-Awaited Comeback and Innovative Membership Model: 'Our Music Asks for Participation. We Don't Make Background Music'
Billboard

WU LYF has never been anything less than disruptive, unique and utterly compelling. The Manchester-formed band blazed a dazzling trail during their first iteration back in the early 2010s, spurned music industry conventions, and sparked fevered…

express.co.uk - Carly Duffy - Music legend dies aged 68 after tragic cancer battle
Music legend dies aged 68 after tragic cancer battle
Daily Express

Afrika Bambaataa has died aged 68 Hip-hop star Afrika Bambaataa has died aged 68, the Hip Hop Alliance has confirmed. They issued a statement to praise him for helping shape a 'global movement rooted in peace, unity, love, and having fun as they…

scientificamerican.com - Jackie Flynn Mogensen - What's the deal with the Artemis II music? The crew finally gave us some answers
What's the deal with the Artemis II music? The crew finally gave us some answers
Scientific American

It's NASA tradition to wake up astronauts with a song. Here are the crew's favorites NASA has launched four astronauts on a pioneering journey around the moon—the Artemis II mission. Follow our coverage here. Join Our Community of Science…

express.co.uk - Gemma Jones - Gwendolyn 'Blondy' Chisolm dead: 70s music legend dies after battling illness
Gwendolyn 'Blondy' Chisolm dead: 70s music legend dies after battling illness
Daily Express

Breaking news - 70s singer dead Gwendolyn 'Blondy' Chisolm, the rapper and singer-songwriter who co-founded The Sequence, has died aged 66. According to Billboard, Chisolm suffered a short illness before her death on Monday, April 6. 'My sister…

rsaa.org.uk - Charlie Portlock - When Songs Carry History: Bhojpuri Folk Music and Migration
When Songs Carry History: Bhojpuri Folk Music and Migration
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs

Some histories survive not in official archives, but in songs. In the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in northern India, folk music has long carried an emotional record of departure, labour, longing, and return. These…

billboard.com - Anna Chan - 20 Questions With Health: 'Unraveling of Civilization' Helped Inspire Band's Most Recent Music
20 Questions With Health: 'Unraveling of Civilization' Helped Inspire Band's Most Recent Music
Billboard

Health has been releasing “sad music for horny people” — their description! — since its self-titled debut in 2007. But in the years since, the industrial band comprised of Jake Duzsik, John Famiglietti and B.J. Miller…

nola.com - BY SHEILA GRISSETT | Staff writer - More music, art and theater throughout St. Tammany
More music, art and theater throughout St. Tammany
NOLA.com

LIVE: Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz will perform a free Mandeville Live! concert at the city's trailhead on April 10. Vappie, a New Orleans native (now living in St. Tammany) and Creole master of the tenor banjo, is a member of the American Banjo…

billboard.com - Lyndsey Havens - Lady Gaga and Doechii, KATSEYE, The Strokes & More: New Music Friday Guide
Lady Gaga and Doechii, KATSEYE, The Strokes & More: New Music Friday Guide
Billboard

Billboard's Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to New Music Friday's most essential releases each week — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. See…

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