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On a quiet trading day, Warner Music Group Corp. (NASDAQ: WMG) slipped 0.95% to close at $28.25 per share on July 20, 2026. The price sits 19.6 % below the GuruFocus estimated intrinsic valu...
After the final chords of Jimmy Buffett’s career, the Coral Reefer Band is quietly polishing a new treasure trove of unreleased songs.Mac McAnally, a long‑time bandmate, told Billboard t...
Sony Music Entertainment filed a new copyright infringement suit against the AI music‑generation platform Udio on Monday, July 2...
On the cusp of August, Seoul’s Mapo‑gu will host a clandestine showcase that could reshape the K‑pop pre‑debut playbook. H...
Volvo Cars is now delivering a native Apple Music app to more than two million vehicles already on the road, thanks to a July 2026...
On March 26, 2026, the anonymous English metal‑core outfit President released a lyric video for its newest single, “Mercy.” ...
In 2025, Aziz Ansari’s debut feature Good Fortune flips back the clock, weaving 1980s Australian pop into its modern comedy‑fa...
Gigi Crayford, who performs under the name Hine, has released her debut EP KA MUA KA MURI on Friday 25 July 2026. The five‑track...
On a bright Saturday morning, Swindon rewound to 1982 when the 1980s power‑pop band XTC played its last show at the Town Gardens...
Tanishk Bagchi, the composer behind several Hindi‑film hits, publicly questioned the royalty payment he received for the title t...
Four newly released music books—Peter Freestone’s remastered memoir of Freddie Mercury, Billy Rees’ illustrated chronicle of...
Yzlvikxen Angkahan, the 27‑year‑old Filipino singer‑songwriter who calls Hiroshima home, has quietly turned the city’s qui...
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...
