The band's final tour, "End of the Road," lets us celebrate the legacy of a band whose time has long past but whose influence lives on.
The building was supposed to be a music pavilion. But the actual structure bears little resemblance to the plans that were submitted to agency officials.
TikTok now shows up on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music, where TikTok-focused playlists have tens of thousands of followers.
"You just can't do these things overnight anymore," said one music historian.
By the time the likes of Mötley Crüe, Poison and Guns N’ Roses had taken over Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip and, soon after, the then-all powerful MTV in the late 1980s, it seemed that the area’s once burgeoning punk scene had truly breathed its last. The Go-Go’s, once darlings of the genre, had topped the charts and then split, Henry Rollins had left the already legendary Black Flag for a mercurial solo career, and the granddaddy of L.A. punk, the band X, had splintered before a film of its remarkable rise, Unheard Music, had even premiered.
While she’s best known for her legendary entertainment career, Madonna was celebrated on Saturday not for her musical accomplishments, but for her decades of activism on behalf of the LGBTQ community — from the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis to present-day anti-gay political policies.
“No single ally has been a better friend or had a bigger impact on acceptance for the LGBTQ community than Madonna,” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said in his introductory remarks at the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, where the pop icon was honored with the Advocate for Change Award.
If the 2019 Billboard Music Awards were judged by audience reaction alone, Korean pop group BTS should be considered the night's overall winner. BTS took home the award for top duo or group, which generated at least one shot of a young woman crying in the audience.
The other win was for best social artist, an award it has won three years in a row going back to 2017, besting such household names as Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Shawn Mendes.
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We have to reckon with the idea that sex, drugs, and rock ’n' roll has too often meant making predators out of musical heroes.
Comparing any modern-day pop act to The Beatles is a fool's game — rock purists will sneer at the implication that anyone existing in the modern world could exist alongside The Fab Four.
But Ariana Grande's commanding of the top three spots on this week's Hot 100 singles chart, which ties a record set by The Beatles in 1964, does show how music consumption has changed since the days of Beatlemania, with the unison screams of the sixties now echoed in excitable fans' tweets of 2019.
LOS ANGELES — Women returned at the Grammys on Sunday as female acts won album of the year and best new artist, while rap also triumphed, with Childish Gambino's "This Is America" becoming the first rap-based song to win record and song of the year.
Kacey Musgraves' "Golden Hour" picked up album of the year, and Dua Lipa won best new artist.
Hulu apparently wants to fight Fyre with Fyre.
The streaming service on Monday dropped a new documentary about the wildly disastrous Fyre Festival — a surprise release that arrives just days before a rival project is set to debut on Netflix.
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In the 1980s, Joanna Stingray brought us music that we weren’t supposed to hear – underground rock from behind the Iron Curtain.
Along the way, she befriended Russia’s greatest rock legends, fell in love, made some music videos, and got banned from attending her own wedding.
Join us as we take a deep dive into Joanna’s video diaries from Russia, as she pulled back the Iron Curtain with a little help from an album called Red Wave.
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After nearly 4 years of armed conflict in Ukraine, gunshots still reign and cities in the east are shells of their former selves.
But for a group of DJs and their fans, music provides an escape from conflict.
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