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48 Hours in Denver: Where to Stay, Sip, Explore and Experience the City’s Best Music
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Denver’s energy is as crisp as its mountain air,…
Academy of Country Music to Celebrate Jelly Roll, Eric Church, Cody Johnson, Rissi Palmer, Ben Vaughn and Others at ACM Honors Show
The Academy of Country Music announced the special honorees for the 2025 ACM Honors show on Wednesday, with honorary awards set to go to top songwriters and executives in Nashville as well…
EXCLUSIVE: Rabanne Is Leaning Further Into Music — and Issuing a Remix Challenge
Upon hearing the opening snippet of “Listen to the Music” by Judy Carter, an almost-forgotten disco track from 1983, French music producer Damien Quintard was hooked. “It feels so up to…
Big Machine Label Forms Ascend Music Imprint With Joel Klaiman
Big Machine Label Group is launching a new imprint called Ascend Music in partnership with music industry executive Joel Klaiman. The new label will specialize in breaking and amplifying…
Music Industry Moves: Johnny Goldstein Joins HYBE Latin America’s Reality Series as Mentor (EXCLUSIVE)
Grammy nominated record producer-songwriter Johnny Goldstein has joined HYBE Latin America‘s new untitled reality series aimed at forming a Latin all-male music group. Goldstein — who has…
Selfridges Launches Music-themed Summer Takeover
SUMMER OF SOUND: Selfridges is launching a series of music-themed events and merch across its locations in London, Manchester and Birmingham this July and August with collaborators…
Music Industry Moves: Universal and UCLA Announce Berry Gordy Scholarship; NIVA Names Audrey Fix Schaefer President of Board
Universal Music Group and UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music have announced the establishment of theBerry Gordy Music Industry Scholarship, in honor of the legendary founder of Motown…
BTS Confirms Spring 2026 Return With New Music and World Tour
BTS has officially confirmed its comeback, revealing on a Weverse livestream on Tuesday that the K-pop powerhouse will return in spring 2026 with new music and a world tour. The group has…
Country Singer Gavin Adcock Slams Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’: ‘That S— Ain’t Country Music’
Country singer Gavin Adcock has spoken out against Beyoncé‘s “Cowboy Carter,” stating during a recent live performance “that shit ain’t country music.” Adcock put Beyoncé in the crosshairs…
Olivia Rodrigo Embraces the Power of the Red Lip for Glastonbury Music Festival
Olivia Rodrigo borrowed a page from Taylor Swift‘s beauty playbook for her Sunday night performance during the Glastonbury Music Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton. The 22-year-old Grammy…
Gucci Names Stray Kids Member Lee Know Its Latest Global Brand Ambassador
GUCCI KID: Gucci will reveal Monday that it has named South Korean singer Lee Know as its latest global brand ambassador. The appointment is a natural extension of the relationship between…
Dua Lipa Brings Showgirl Sci-fi Glam to Liverpool Performance in Crystal Louboutin Boots
Dua Lipa’s “Radical Optimism” tour landed in Liverpool on Tuesday with a high-shine performance at Anfield, where she performed in a custom Swarovski bodysuit and shimmering silver boots…
With ‘Reverie,’ Baekhyun Gives Fans What They’ve Been Waiting For
Baekhyun is warming up. “ The last time I was in New York, it was actually quite cold,” says the singer on Sunday, one day before kicking off the U.S. leg of his first solo world tour.…
‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Review: High-Concept Toon Is as Catchy as the Korean Music Phenom That Inspired It
In K-pop, the fans come first, or so catchy South Korean music acts are constantly telling the legions of dedicated followers who have propelled them to international stardom. If it…
How this Parisian music streaming service is fighting AI fraud
Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters. Deezer, based in Paris, is grappling…
Russ Taff and Steve Taylor: Two Longtime Titans of Christian Music on How They Finally Joined Forces for Taff’s Raw, Emotionally Revelatory ‘Cover Story’
If there was one thing that followers of contemporary Christian music probably could have felt assured would never show up on their gospel-music bingo card, it would be that Russ Taff…
Brian Wilson’s Genius Was the Surest Sign We’ll Ever Have that Pop Music Is Religious
I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American…
Hayley Williams Hopes Christian Music Industry ‘Crumbles’ Amid Michael Tait Scandal: ‘F— All of You Who Knew and Didn’t Say Anything’
Paramore singer Hayley Williams has reacted angrily to reports that Christian music star Michael Tait has been accused of sexual assaults in his past relationships with young men, writing…
Barbra Streisand on “The Secret of Life”
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Barbra Streisand has been a huge…
Miyu Backs Bittersweet Coming-of-Age Tale ‘We Are Aliens’ From Music Video Maestro Kohei Kadowaki (EXCLUSIVE)
French animation powerhouse Miyu Productions has teamed with Tokyo-based upstart Nothing New to co-produce “We Are Aliens,” a coming-of-age tale now in development, and slated for…
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Final Season Trailer Teases Belly’s Wedding, Final Choice Between Jeremiah and Conrad — and More Taylor Swift Music
The end of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is right around the corner. On Wednesday, Amazon Prime Video released the first full trailer, set to Taylor Swift’s “Daylight” and “Red.” In it,…
‘Spookiz’ Snagged by Sony Music Labels in First Character Content Acquisition
Sony Music Labels has made its first foray into animated character content with the acquisition of full rights to “Spookiz,” the globally popular non-verbal animation series that has…
Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening
In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to the United…