With Folklore dropping like a bolt out of the blue, everyone is a Swiftie right now — including some of the biggest artists in the music scene. Taylor Swift wrote her eighth and latest album in isolation and let her…
There’s a whole lot of great music out there, recorded when TVs were chunky and the Internet wasn’t yet a thing. Amazon wants you to explore the vault. The online retail giant today unveils its aptly-named [RE]DISCOVER program, which encourages…
Dua Lipa is bringing the heat on her upcoming Club Future Nostalgia: The Remix Album, which she revealed is coming out on Aug. 21. The singer dropped the news on Tuesday night (Aug. 4), also confirming that a remix of…
Gracie Abrams made her TV debut Tuesday night on The Tonight Show. If she was freaking out on the inside, she sure wasn’t showing it. Armed with a keyboard and a microphone, the 20-year-old folk singer and songwriter Zoomed in…
BRISBANE — Wayne Connolly, the celebrated Australian producer, engineer and artist who has collected eight ARIA Awards — and counting — for his work, has launched his first label, Scenic Drive. Based in Sydney, Connolly’s latest venture begins life with…
The 10-year anniversary celebrations for One Direction were a lightning rod for the pop band’s sales and streams in the U.K., new data reveals. According to data published by the Official Charts Company, almost 25 million streams of the group’s…
Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs continues its spending spree with the acquisition of Blondie’s catalog. In a statement issued Wednesday morning (Aug. 5) to the London Stock Exchange, Hipgnosis and its investment adviser The Family announced a deal to buy 100%…
In response to incidents of police brutality across the United States, singer Macy Gray is ramping up her nonprofit My Good. The organization, founded quietly earlier this year, seeks to help families and loved ones of victims of police violence…
When Taylor Swift’s surprise album Folklore blasted in atop the Billboard 200 chart with the biggest week of the year for any album, she not only did it without the benefit of any pre-release promotion, but also while taking a…
The alternative committee will likely have a lively discussion about whether the album has more in common with alternative or pop. Last week, we asked whether Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore would put her back in the album of the…