The Ivor Novello Awards are all about celebrating human creativity in the form of songwriting, and for 70 years, they have quietly commended the geniuses behind the music that articulates universal emotions and shape popular culture. But now, in its 71st year (and now known officially as the Ivors with Amazon Music), the very premise […]

The world of Korean entertainment has come a long way since “Gangnum Style” set dancers galloping around the world nearly 15 years ago. Korean content industry leaders on both sides of the Pacific gathered earlier this month at the London West Hollywood to take stock of the country’s rapid progress as an exporter of music, […]

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, […]

Beloved music icon, Brit Award winner, Grammy nominee and now … award-winning film director. Kate Bush has set out her stalls as a filmmaker by winning a prize for her directorial debut. The “Wuthering Heights” legend won the animation award on Thursday for her anti-war short film “Little Shrew” at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival […]

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 […]

Billy Corgan has a definitive answer for the question everybody has been asking. Are aliens or robots more troubling for the future of humanity? And what does the U.S. government know? Get Smashing Pumpkins Tickets Here For the Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman, his deadpan, politically charged answer, which entailed weed and…

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Charli XCX is back with a new song, “SS26.” Charli may think the dance floor is “dead,” but she didn’t say anything about the runway — that’s where “SS26” comes in. With the title standing for the lyric “Spring summer 2026,” the song reprises the rock-forward direction as her aptly-titled…

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Mel Gibson, after less successful efforts like the movie Flight Risk, has completed production on The Resurrection of the Christ, his two-part follow-up to The Passion of the Christ. The Resurrection of the Christ stars Jaakko Ohtonen as Jesus, after Gibson decided to recast Jim Caviezel and save on de-aging…

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