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Scammers Impersonating Musicians Stole $12M From Music Industry
The FBI Nashville Division just dropped a serious warning that every music fan needs to hear right now. Over 527 people got caught slipping and lost $12.2 million to romance scams where criminals were literally pretending to be musicians, and…
Kiss of the Spider Woman review - Hollywood high kicks into a slick musical revival
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…
Turns Out Home Taping Wasn't Killing Music After All
For decades, the music and film industries have generally responded the same way to the emergence of any new technology capable of recording and distributing content: with a barrage of hostility. Many readers will remember the legal campaign…
WU LYF on Long-Awaited Comeback and Innovative Membership Model: 'Our Music Asks for Participation. We Don't Make Background Music'
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…
What's the deal with the Artemis II music? The crew finally gave us some answers
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…
More music, art and theater throughout St. Tammany
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…
UK music festivals you can still book
As the temperature creeps up, and the days stretch out, a summer of music-filled, sun-drenched weekends beckons. Glastonbury may be in its fallow year but there are loads of other UK music festivals to get excited about. From Leicestershire to…
Hardcore Music Has Great Healing Benefits for Overall Health, According to Upcoming Documentary
Producers Howie Abrams, Seth Abrams, and Jammi York initially planned to write a book about the healing power of hardcore music. Genres like punk and heavy metal, and bands like Social Distortion, the Ramones, Bad Religion, and H2O. They wanted to…
Scott Aiges, who defined the role of music critic at The Times-Picayune, has died
Scott Aiges, who was The Times-Picayune's first full-time pop music critic before moving on to produce festivals, manage bands and teach high school, died Tuesday of glioblastoma in White Plains, New York. He was 63. At first glance, Aiges was an…
Spotify Adds Option to Turn Off All Videos, Includes Music and Podcast Clips
Want your Spotify to be dedicated to audio streaming, rather than playing videos while you listen to music or podcasts? Two new toggles will soon let you turn them off, or you can pick which videos you want to see. Spotify has been introducing new…
What Is UMG's Real Value? Investors & Music Execs Weigh in on Pershing Square Bid
While some headlines say Pershing Square's offer to buy the Universal Music Group (UMG) values the company at $64 billion — which would make it by far the biggest music industry deal ever — if you get into the details of the offer, it…
I used Apple Music in ChatGPT to build creative playlists - and the results surprised me
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Music reviews: Ye, Raye, and Flea
The artist formerly known as Kanye West is “probably the most contentious figure in all of popular music,” said Kelefa Sanneh in The New Yorker. So, after 2025's flashes of blatant antisemitism and his more recent published apology…
Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh landed music video project under stage name
Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh reportedly made conscious efforts to not become a 'nepobaby' Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh went the extra mile to make sure her casting in K-pop star Dayoung's What's a Girl to Do music video, which dropped on…
Latin Music Hits Historic $1 Billion Wholesale Revenue in U.S. in 2025, Outpaces Overall Market Growth
Latin music's meteoric rise in the U.S. shows no signs of slowing down, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) annual report, revealed Thursday (April 9). Celebrating its tenth consecutive year of growth, 2025 marked a…
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