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Music Industry Moves: Thomas Rhett Strikes Label Partnership With Hybe's Blue Highway Records
Country star T homas Rhett and Hybe Americas' Nashville-based label Blue Highway Records have announced a new partnership, Fifty-One/Forty-Nine Records. Described as “artist-led,” the partnership offers “an innovative approach…
Four-year plan to transform 'fragile' Scottish music industry revealed
Industry leaders want Scottish music to be officially recognised and invested in as a “national cultural, social and economic asset'. However, they have said their vision is for the industry, which currently supports more than 7,000 jobs, is…
The next great music movement won't be found by algorithms | Opinion
Music history has never waited for permission. Jazz grew through New Orleans neighborhoods, clubs, and dance halls. Hip-hop emerged from block parties in the Bronx. Country music found a national audience through regional traditions and the 1927…
Rolling Stones already in studio again working on 26th album with music legend
The Rolling Stones may have ruled out a tour in 2027 but they are working on new music with legendary saxophonist Courtney Pine. The rockers brought out their latest – and 25th album - called Foreign Tongues back in July, and already look to…
The west has a blinkered view of African music - and it's hurting the whole continent's culture
In 2024, South African pop star Tyla won the best Afrobeats award at the MTV VMAs. Beaming in a yellow dress, she began her acceptance speech in a celebratory tone. “This is such a big moment for African music. The global impact of…
America's reading crisis is also a case for music education | Opinion
Across the United States, reading performance has weakened significantly in recent years. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the average eighth-grade reading score in 2024 was two points lower than in 2022, and five…
Celibidache was a musical visionary, an uncompromising perfectionist - and my father
My father, Sergiu Celibidache, loved children more than anything because they are free and true to themselves. And yet, he once made a young boy wet himself when he dared to ask for an autograph, shouting at the poor child as if he had committed a…
Billboard's 2026 Top Music Business Schools
In the age of AI, who needs a college education? An AI agent's deft reply: “AI makes information cheap; it doesn't replace judgment, deep expertise, mentorship, networks or credentials required in [many] fields. The real question is: What…
Spotify expands its Music Quiz trivia feature
Spotify got on the BTS bandwagon earlier this year, celebrating the band's return to the studio with a trivia game about the K-pop idol group. Now, that Music Quiz feature has been expanded to test fans' knowledge of more than 2,000 artists with…
Fiction: 'Music Against the Night' by Yiyun Li
The Irish composer and pianist John Field (1782-1837), whose career took him throughout Europe and finally to a life of luxury in Russia, was a forerunner of music's Romantic era and is credited with the creation of the nocturne. This may sound…
'Dirty Dancing: The Musical' Is Coming to Broadway
Dirty Dancing is coming to Broadway. The musical adaptation of the 1987 film will make a stop at the Lena Horne Theatre on Broadway starting this winter, as part of its national tour. The show will play the theater from Feb. 12 through Sept. 5. The…
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's Relationship Timeline: From Friends to Country Music Power Couple
As sweet as a love song! Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have one of the strongest relationships in the music industry — and their bond just keeps getting better. The country couple first met at a Nashville gig in late 1994, when they were each…
V/H/S/Mixtape review - murderous puppets pull the strings in mixed bag of gory music-themed mini-movies
The latest in the long-running horror-feature series is, as per usual, a decidedly diverse ragbag of shorts, strung together with the thinnest of connective tissue. The theme this go-round seems to be music and sound, so it sort of makes sense that…
How a Pre-School Of Rock Program Affirms CMA's Investment in Music Teachers
When the Country Music Association decided in 2006 to plow money from its annual CMA Fest into music education, the decision seemed like a logical pursuit for a music-driven organization. It was, in fact, extending a tradition. Ten years prior…
'Ofrenda' Review: A Musical Meeting With Death at Austin Opera
Austin Opera, the $5 million company in the Texas state capital—much smaller than the better-known outfits of Dallas and Houston—is having some firsts this season. Its brand-new headquarters, a converted warehouse in an industrial…
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