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Four newly released music books—Peter Freestone’s remastered memoir of Freddie Mercury, Billy Rees’ illustrated chronicle of the Carpenters’ tours, Julian Lloyd Webber’s portrait o...
Yzlvikxen Angkahan, the 27‑year‑old Filipino singer‑songwriter who calls Hiroshima home, has quietly turned the city’s quiet streets into a global listening room. Under the moniker O...
South Korea is turning up the volume on music education with the launch of the 2026 Popular Music Practical Masterclass, a 10‑da...
On a rainy Saturday in July, the music world lost one of its fiercest bassists. Jennifer Finch, the driving force behind Los Angel...
A trove of Suno AI’s source code, stolen by hacker ellie.191 and released to 404 Media, has exposed a massive catalog of copyrig...
Morgan Wallen performed a brand‑new song, “Been By Now,” for the first time onstage at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Frid...
Korean folk pioneer Kang Seung‑Sik, whose voice helped shape Seoul’s music scene from the 1970s onward, died on July 19, 2026,...
A growing wave of musicians are turning to artificial‑intelligence tools, yet how deeply they embed AI in their craft differs sh...
Danny Young, the veteran Nigerian Afrobeats producer and songwriter, was officially welcomed into the Recording Academy’s voting...
In the quiet woods north of Nashville, a young songwriter built a studio on credit and a career that would almost be written off b...
A federal judge dismissed Canadian rapper Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group (UMG) on Thursday, ending a h...
Spotify’s newest “About the Song” feature, unveiled in February and still in beta, adds swipe‑able cards that purport to e...
Under Manila’s neon‑lit skyline, a fresh beat arrived on 27 May 2026, signaling the entry of Japanese pop artist Nanao into th...
Jarren Garcia is set to drop a new seven‑track R&B and soul EP, LUVBOMB, on July 23, 2026. The Filipino singer, who first captur...
On July 18, 2026, KBS2’s variety show Mr. House Husband Season 2 aired a segment that confirmed comedian Ji Sang‑ryul’s inte...
When LE SSERAFIM, ILLIT, and Los Angeles‑based KATSEYE united under HYBE’s banner, the result was a digital single that quickl...
When a drum machine that once sparked the beats of Michael Jackson and hip‑hop legends finally takes root in New York City, the ...
In Macon, Georgia, the music world lost a titan on July 16, 2026. Alan Walden, the manager, promoter, and publisher who helped lau...
Australian technical death metal outfit Psycroptic premiered a new music video for the track “Ashes Of A New Dawn” on July 16 ...
