The Americana Honors & Awards nominees for 2026 have been announced, with Brandi Carlile, Margo Price, I’m With Her, S.G. Goodman, Mon Rovia and Ken Pomeroy all scoring two nominations each across the kudos’ five categories. In the artist of the year category, for solo artists, Carlile and Price are nominated along with Charley Crockett, […]
America’s 250 th anniversary this summer may be a bittersweet celebration, but Christina Aguilera, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, the Roots, Jill Scott, Seal, State Property, Kathy Sledge, Infinity Song and more special guests will celebrate it and Philadelphia’s legacy as the birthplace of the nation with a performance for “One Philly: Unity Concert For […]
In advance of the National Music Publishers’ Association 2026 annual meeting, the organization has named Pink as winner of this year’s Songwriter Icon Award. It has also named Julian Bunetta (songwriter-producer behind Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso,” Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” and One Direction’s “Night Changes”) as Non-Performing Songwriter Icon; and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. […]
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a major recorded-music and music-publishing licensing agreements that will enable Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters. The tool will be powered by generative AI technology that the announcement states “will open up […]
Featuring cameos from Abra, former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief Carine Rotfield, and a can of Poppi
The Pittsburgh noise-pop band’s long-awaited follow-up to Girl With Fish
Ancient History arrives in June
Michael Jackson’s biopic might have left some critics cold, but it’s a runaway success by every other measure. Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael” just passed $700 million at the global box office, while renewed interest in the late superstar’s catalog has sent classics like “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” back to […]
A new three-part Netflix series about the explosive 2005 Michael Jackson trial, “Michael Jackson: The Verdict,” is set to premiere on June 3. The docuseries covers the pop icon’s 2003 charges of child molestation, the resulting trial and the media circus that revolved around the courtroom proceedings. The doc features key individuals who were in […]
In response to multiple complaints online from Harry Styles fans who paid for special “VIP” floor tickets on the first two nights of the singer’s “Together Together” tour, but found their views obscured by the 10-feet-tall walkways circling the stadium’s floor that the singer frequently performed upon, the tour’s team announced Wednesday that it will […]