Toronto’s Rogers Stadium sustained “significant damage” after a powerful storm tore through the city on Wednesday, September 2nd, leaving portions of the 50,000-capacity venue visibly mangled. Live Nation Canada confirmed the damage in a statement Wednesday night. “Fortunately, no one was injured during today’s extreme weather event,” the company said.…

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Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist, composer, producer, and founding member of Mexican indie rock band Camilo Séptimo, was killed along with his pregnant wife, their 3-year-old daughter, and a 21-year-old woman who worked for the family. He was 38 years old. Authorities discovered Meléndez and the other victims late Tuesday night, September…

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Twenty One Pilots are preparing to make their Rock in Rio debut, and drummer Josh Dun is expecting big things from the Brazilian crowd. “I think Brazilian music fans are some of the most passionate in the world — maybe even the most passionate — when it comes to music…

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Bad Bunny and dozens of other artists have scored a major victory in a copyright lawsuit targeting nearly 2,000 songs, after a federal judge reversed an earlier decision and rejected claims of ownership over the dembow rhythm, the boom-ch-boom-chick beat at the heart of reggaeton. In a ruling reported by…

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Alanis Morissette has sued her ex-tour manager, accusing the person of blackmailing her with threats of trumping up drug trafficking charges unless the singer-songwriter signed a 15-year contract. In a lawsuit filed in a California federal court Tuesday, Morissette lobbed claims of extortion, fraud, and negligent misrepresentation against her 2025…

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Jason Isbell and other notable musicians have filed a class action lawsuit against Suno, the AI music-creating software, alleging the company uses musicians’ identities without their permission to generate music that copies their styles. Isbell, along with Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery, blues guitarist and songwriter Guy Forsyth, and jazz…

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In the wake of Dolly Parton‘s death, millions of listeners returned to the songs she left behind. By the next day, she was the most-streamed artist in the world. According to evolving data from Luminate, Parton’s catalog drew 30.5 million streams in the US on August 25th, the day she…

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Six workers were injured while loading out after Ed Sheeran’s Saturday concert at Ford Field in Detroit, according to reports. WDIV of Detroit reported that the workers were taken to the hospital where two were in serious condition and four in stable condition at the time. Calls from the fire…

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For a hot minute, CDs seemed destined to do little more than collect dust — nostalgic remnants sealed in jewel cases and forgotten in the back of the car. Now, they’re one of the fastest-growing parts of the recorded music industry. According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s new…

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J Balvin says the global success of Spanish-language artists has reinforced his decision not to record an album in English, pointing to Karol G, Bad Bunny, and others as evidence that crossing over no longer requires changing languages. “I don’t need to do it,” Balvin told GQ when asked whether…

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