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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 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…
Beaches review - 80s weepie makes for soggy Broadway musical
Garry Marshall's 1988 film Beaches is no testament to subtlety. But in its gauzy, hustling way it is an effective tear-jerker, poignantly tracing decades of a friendship as it unwittingly approaches tragedy. Because Bette Midler is one of its…
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…
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…
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…
JOY On Espíritu de Cambio Honor & Why It's Important to Use Her Voice | Billboard Latin Women in Music 2026
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From Manila to Coachella: BINI on Spreading Filipino Music and Their Rehearsal Must-Haves
Since BINI was formed back in 2019 through Star Hunt Academy, they've been making their own path as a Filipino girl group navigating global stardom. Aiah, Colet, Maloi, Gwen, Stacey, Mikha, Jhoanna, and Sheena were met with early success in the…
The key to music success in 2026: pay for fake people to hype you up
Throughout its history, the music industry has been no stranger to deception, having been found over and over to be playing an open-eared public for complete and utter fools. The payola radio scandal of the 1950s, through to recent paid-for…
Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul' To Get June Theatrical Release
EXCLUSIVE: Cinemas nationwide will soon be rocking to the story of one of music's greatest talents. Subtext, in association with Rolling Stone Films, today announced the domestic theatrical release of Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul directed by…
Box Office: 'Michael' $18.5M Overseas, Best First Day Musical Biopic
Universal ‘s international release of Lionsgate ‘s Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, opened in most of its 82 markets yesterday with an $18.5M first day (which includes Tuesday previews). Back out those previews and Wednesday alone was…
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