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Live Music Industry News Roundup
In it's first report to investors since being found guilty of maintaining monopoly power in ticketing, concert promotion and amphitheater operations, Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) will release its first quarter 2026 financial results on…
Trixie Mattel Opens Up About Breaking Music Industry Rules & DJ Life Over Donuts | Takes Us Out
We sat down with drag superstar and Billboard chart-topping musician Trixie Mattel at California Donuts in Hollywood. From her cozy neighborhood donut shop to the world's biggest music festivals, Trixie shares her journey from folk guitar to dance…
Spotify Reveals Its Most Streamed Music of the Last 20 Years
This month marks 20 years since Spotify was founded. Since it began operations in April 2006, the platform has now become the dominant force in music streaming and has completely changed the music industry. Some of those notable changes have…
Spotify at 20: winners, losers and what comes next for music
Streaming was once the greatest fear of record producers—until Spotify arrived, offering instant, legal listening that outsmarted piracy and stabilized a rattled industry. Founded in 2006, launched in 2008 and expanded to the U.S. in 2011…
The Music Genre That Matches Your Zodiac Sign
Aries may come off a bit aggressive at first but in reality, that's just their bold, independent, spunky personality. The genre of hip-hop and rap is filled with a unique variety of artists that all promote different messages and take risks with…
The Lost Boys: The Musical' wants to bring you back to the summer of '87
Vampires have always been an essential part of pop culture—from classics like Dracula and Anne Rice novels, to seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a rebirth in the mid-2000s led by the Twilight series and HBO's True Blood. More…
Gloria Trevi Talks About Her Show In LA, Recording a Music Video For Her New Single & More | Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026
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City of Miami commission approves renewed contract for Ultra Music Festival incorporating noise concerns
City commissioners voted Thursday to grant the Ultra Music Festival a renewable five-year contract, which keeps the annual event in Bayfront Park under new terms and language. The new contract incorporates noise decibel limits established in a 2021…
Grammys on the Hill 2026 Events Focus on Protecting Human Creativity as AI Shifts Music Landscape
The Recording Academy convened music creators, industry leaders and lawmakers in Washington, D.C., this week for its 25th Grammys on the Hill initiative. The three-day event ran from April 21-23. “Grammys on the Hill represents the core of…
Apple Music exec said the thing about lossless audio that we were all thinking
Apple vice president Oliver Schusser, who leads Apple Music, was recently interviewed by Billboard and had some interesting things to share about Apple Music, lossless audio, and more. Yesterday Billboard published a new interview with Apple Music…
Natalia Lafourcade On Being Inspired By Julieta Venegas & Talks Being On Tour | Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026
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Young Miko Shouts Out Feid & Shares What Motivates Her | Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026
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The Vulgar Presidency: Cage Fights and Chamber Music Nostalgia
April 24, 2026 Daniel Warner “Open the Fuckin' Strait, you bunch of crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell,” the President of the United States wrote on Truth Social on Easter Sunday, in reference to Iran and the Strait of…
The Vampire Lestat On His Music & Daniel's Book in New 'Raw' Footage
Posted in: AMC, TV | Tagged: The Vampire Lestat Along with new posters, AMC's The Vampire Lestat released 'raw' footage where Lestat offers takes on himself, his music, and Daniel's book. AMC's The Vampire Lestat drops raw footage of Lestat…
'The Music of What Happens' | Nick Laird
To many, Seamus Heaney is the preeminent Anglophone poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. He's certainly one of the most celebrated. He was born in County Derry in 1939, and when he died in Dublin in 2013 his death reverberated around…
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