The singer reposted video of the fast food debacle alongside a snippet of what seemed to be an unreleased track

Rolling Stone 15m ago

Rapper Ice Spice has spoken out about an altercation that took place at a McDonald’s, addressing the incident on social media along with a clip of a new song.

Variety 1h ago

West is slated to perform a pair of shows at the Gelredome Stadium in Arnhem on June 6 and June 8.

Billboard 3h ago

Coachella 2026 is underway, and for home viewers, so is Couch-ella. Most of the performances from weekend 2 will be streamed live on YouTube, across seven channels for seven stages — check out the full schedule of streams, below.

Variety 4h ago

Tune in Saturday April 18th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

Lefsetz Letter 4h ago

This series really doesn’t kick in until the fourth episode (of six). Before that… I was wincing at some of the fights, which were extended and choreographed to the point you thought you were watching a lame kung fu movie. And the plot twists? They overtook the main plot itself.

Lefsetz Letter 4h ago

Billboard is unpacking how exactly the pop superstar's name might come up in the highly anticipated trial next month.

Billboard 4h ago

The brand is bigger than the acts. Which is why so many festivals have failed recently, they believe it’s about the lineup. If you’re dependent upon the lineup to sell tickets, you’re screwed. You need to be selling more than music, you need to be selling CULTURE!

Lefsetz Letter 5h ago

The song also soundtracked a truck commercial and won big at the CMA Awards.

Billboard 5h ago

"The only thing that will be going viral for them is their mugshots," Ice Spice's attorney Bradford Cohen tells Billboard.

Billboard 5h ago

Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might […]

Variety 5h ago

Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."

Ars Technica 6h ago

The pop star, who did not reveal the reason he was hospitalized, shared the health update via Instagram with a photo of himself in a hospital bed

Rolling Stone 6h ago

"The shows will of course go on," manager Rod Smallwood says, noting band will stick to its Australia tour instead

Rolling Stone 6h ago

Rapper D4vd has been arrested for the alleged murder of Celeste Rivas by the LAPD. Keep watching for the full details of the case. Tetris Kelly: D4vd has been arrested for alleged murder of Celeste Rivas, months after body found in singer’s car.

Billboard 6h ago

The capsule dropped by Mitchell & Ness honors Miller's love of the team with inventive football apparel.

Billboard 6h ago

We'll be updating our list as musicians announce their new music, so keep checking back for the latest!

Billboard 6h ago

Here's how you can livestream basketball game online for free.

Billboard 6h ago

Which new Latin music release is your favorite? Vote below!

Billboard 6h ago

"I was in complete shock and honestly didn’t know what to feel," the singer told ARMY in the crowd.

Billboard 7h ago

Probation for man who used stolen logins and posted private info on social media.

Ars Technica 8h ago

She's well qualified but will need to navigate RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.

Ars Technica 8h ago

The pop star made the revelation during an appearance on Apple Music 1’s New Music Daily with Zane Lowe

Rolling Stone 8h ago

The Texas parents learned of the arrest while still fighting grand-jury subpoenas seeking to haul them in front of a panel in Los Angeles

Rolling Stone 8h ago

Is $20,000–$25,000 a sweet spot for secondhand electric cars? We think so.

Ars Technica 9h ago

Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.

Ars Technica 9h ago

Prosecutors are also asking the Court of Appeals to overturn the acquittal of another man accused of killing the pioneering DJ

Rolling Stone 9h ago

Months of secretive hearings and speculation culminated with the arrest of the singer in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas

Rolling Stone 9h ago

The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon's store.

Ars Technica 9h ago

"The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was."

Ars Technica 10h ago

Pedro Pascal wasn’t about to sit around and wait for invitation to be a part of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show. Instead, the “Last of Us” star reached out to the Grammy-winning superstar’s team.

Variety 10h ago

Chartmetric makes it easier for indie artists to compete, with features for playlist pitching, social strategy, and brand affinity insights. All in one place.

How Music Charts 10h ago

"In a country scarred by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment," Poland culture minister said of rapper's June 19 show in Chorzow

Rolling Stone 10h ago

"I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."

Ars Technica 10h ago

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

TechCrunch 10h ago

If there were ever truth in advertising, it can be found in the poster for Raye’s sensory-overload “This Tour May Contain New Music”: “This tour may also contain: dramatic endings, a brass section, live & passion, at least on jazz cover, potential waffling (excessive unnecessary chatting), a big...

Variety 11h ago

The project features three new alt-pop tracks, two of which the singer debuted at Coachella last week

Rolling Stone 11h ago

Prices for "critical components" are surging because of massive data center investments.

Ars Technica 11h ago

The biggest headlines from the past few days... Source

Music Business Worldwide 11h ago

Hear unearthed “Move On” from Zappa ’66: Vol. 1 – Live at TTG Studios, the first Vaulternative release since 2016

Rolling Stone 12h ago

Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster.

Ars Technica 14h ago

Pirate site Anna’s Archive hit with $322M default judgment over music scraping — but will Spotify and record labels ever see the money? — “The judge’s ruling also requires internet service providers including Cloudflare to disable access to Anna’s Archive’s domain names and prevent websites that...

Copyhype 14h ago

Ahead of the second weekend of the Coachella festival, with the Stagecoach festival to follow later in the month, California’s governor Gavin Newsom has published a Big Number on the two events’ economic value to the state.

Music Ally 14h ago

Venerable US jam-band The Grateful Dead have one of the largest archives of live recordings, thanks to their longstanding policy of supporting fans who wanted to tape their shows. Now their vault of recordings is opening up in hi-res form, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment and Nugs.

Music Ally 14h ago

The UK parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee has published its ‘Fan-Led Review of Live and Electronic Music’ report after nearly a year of consultation with fans and the industry.

Music Ally 15h ago

Global advertising body the IAB and PwC have released their ‘2025 Internet Advertising Revenue Report’, which tracks a 13.9% increase in those revenue last year to $294.6bn – a record total. Within that, social advertising revenues grew by 32.6% to $117.7bn, and are now 40% of alll digital...

Music Ally 15h ago

Country sensation Ella Langley is celebrating the release of her sophomore album ‘Dandelion’ with an in-app TikTok experience. While commonplace for major artists, this highlights her rapid rise seeing as the artist released her debut album in 2024.

Music Ally 15h ago

Coachella weekend one just wrapped. Here are the highlights for artist teams: Justin Bieber leaned into millennial nostalgia, triggering his biggest streaming day since 2025 and a 24.6 million stream surge.

Music Ally 15h ago

This week lyric licensing and data company LyricFind announced Artist Unlimited, a new subscription plan which allows artists to create professional-tier videos using software courtesy of Rotor Videos.

Music Ally 15h ago

“I started my management company upstairs on the fifth floor,” Yungblud’s manager Tommas Arnby told Music Ally from the artist’s new brick and mortar shop, Beautifully Romanticised Accidentally Traumatized (B.r.a.t.) on Denmark Street in London. “There were two desks and a bunch of mice.” Arnby is...

Music Ally 15h ago

Last September, Spotify announced a series of measures relating to AI music, spam and deepfakes. They included supporting – and, indeed, revealing for the first time – a new industry standard for music credits to make it clear how and when AI is used in music tracks.

Music Ally 16h ago

Shankar, who currently leads TuneCore in the region, will expand her remit across Believe’s Artist Services business. Source

Music Business Worldwide 16h ago

Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.

Ars Technica 16h ago

Track: Justė, Jaxstyle, Jon – “Turn The Lights Off”Released: 7 Nov 2025Label: Spinnin’ Records (Warner Music Group) Metrics: Over 37m million streams on Spotify 1bn global radio plays #1 across Europe’s Shazam charts #1 in Poland for six weeks, three weeks in Sweden Featured on BBC Radio 1 Rising...

Music Ally 16h ago

New digital hub combines e-commerce and editorial content focused on jazz repertoire and culture. Source

Music Business Worldwide 16h ago

Brazilian footballing legend Ronaldinho was renowned for his silky skills on the pitch, not to mention legendary partying abilities. The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 20h ago

Olivia Rodrigo has given a taste of her upcoming third album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” with the release of its first single “Drop Dead,” along with its music video.

Variety 23h ago

Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy

Ars Technica 1d ago

Singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dead in Hollywood in the trunk of his Tesla in September. According to the LAPD, D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, was arrested by the Robbery-Homicide Division for the murder of Hernandez and is...

Variety 1d ago

"The old protect the young, and then the young protect the old."

Ars Technica 1d ago

In the wake of the verdict against Live Nation Wednesday, in which a New York jury found that the company runs an unlawful monopoly in the concert industry, two questions have towered above all others: “Will ticket prices go down?” and “Will this open up the marketplace for artists and venues?” The...

Variety 1d ago

Meghan Trainor has canceled what was slated to be her “Get In Girl” tour, citing the difficulties of balancing work and family in the wake of welcoming a new baby. The pop singer shared a message on social media about the tour cancellation, apologizing to fans who were looking forward to the shows.

Variety 1d ago

For the first time in a while, the benefits of new Intel tech will trickle down.

Ars Technica 1d ago

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

Ars Technica 1d ago

"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."

Ars Technica 1d ago

New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”

Ars Technica 1d ago

I’m talking about the band, not clothes. My secret cultural resource is “The Week,” that’s where I pick up left field tips about books, TV shows, podcasts and music.

Lefsetz Letter 1d ago

FTC aims to stamp out brand-safety standards that hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.

Ars Technica 1d ago

An unannounced Teenage Engineering device, the KO-Amp 35, can be found over at the FCC in a new filing. The label clearly marks it as a member of the midrange EP family instruments, which currently includes the KO-II and its spinoffs, the Riddim and the Medieval.

The Verge 1d ago

An in-app browser allows visual feedback while building websites and more.

Ars Technica 1d ago

News arrives as live music becomes an increasingly important revenue stream for K-pop's biggest companies Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Upcoming sequel wants to capture a "uniquely Ukrainian perspective" on the post-apocalypse.

Ars Technica 1d ago

In episode 2 of Netflix’s “Beef,” Oscar Isaac‘s character, Josh Martin, starts jamming on his Moog synthesizer. He’s not good at it. “It’s really amateurish,” Oscar and Grammy Award-winning songwriter Finneas says. In season 2, Josh is the general manager at an ultra-posh country club.

Variety 1d ago

South Asian actors are far likelier to make it to Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World than south Asian musicians, so it helps […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

During her keynote address at the All About Music conference in Mumbai in August 2025, IFPI CEO Victoria Oakley said that India had “192m users on free streaming in India, […] The post is from Music Ally.

Music Ally 1d ago

Live Nation antitrust verdict explained Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Over the last few years, Coachella has made substantial changes to its programming. New stages, surprise headliners, and most notably, fewer and fewer artists. Here are the numbers behind Coachella lineups post-pandemic.

How Music Charts 1d ago

TuneCore is celebrating its 20th anniversary. MBW meets up with two of its senior execs to reflect on the journey so far, the careers launched and the lessons learned – as well as a look at the current landscape and where the company might go next… Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

For most of recorded music history, quality was scarce. Recording, producing, and distributing a song that sounded “good” required significant investments of time, money, and skill, along with access to gatekeepers, who carefully filtered what entered the system. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 1d ago

At Spotify, we want your experience to feel intuitive and personal across every moment of the day. Whether you’re streaming your favorite playlist while you work or browsing new recommendations on the go, Spotify should feel familiar and easy to use.

Spotify 1d ago

The act's streaming and physical sales in Japan made them the world's 13th biggest-selling act in 2025 — without an international campaign. UMG says their global push is still to come. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Fortnite’s in-game music game Festival is into its 14th season now, having originally launched in December 2023. As ever, the season has an artist as its headliner: Laufey is the star this time round. Yes, Fortnite meets jazz-pop! With an avatar in a giant rabbit head on drums, obvs.

Music Ally 1d ago

Coldplay’s last studio album came out in October 2024. Dua Lipa’s came out in May that year. Arctic Monkeys’ last long-player was released in October 2022. And Calvin Harris’s came out in August 2024. Why are we reeling off the most-recent album release-dates for British artists?

Music Ally 1d ago

Firm says original sample creators will be compensated when their sounds are used to generate new material Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna's Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify's platform.

The Verge 1d ago

Grammy-winning songwriter formalizes expanded partnership with WCM as company deepens ties to Latin repertoire and writer development. Source

Music Business Worldwide 1d ago

Can a commercial recording studio still thrive in the age of AI, home recording, and constant industry change? In this episode of Bobby Owsinski’s Inner Circle, Bobby Owsinski sits down with Tom Weir, Grammy-winning engineer and owner of Studio City Sound.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 1d ago

Landmark verdict could reshape the live entertainment industry. Source

Music Business Worldwide 2d ago

From gripping thrillers to poignant memoirs, the 21st century has had no shortage of unforgettable books. To celebrate the standout storytelling of our modern era, we’re launching Best of the Century So Far—a curated audiobook collection of titles released each year between 2001 and 2025,...

Spotify 2d ago

For many artists, independent venues are where music careers begin and fan communities take shape. Independent venue operators work hard every day to keep local scenes thriving as they navigate a rapidly evolving live music landscape.

Spotify 2d ago

Books have always moved with us, whether tucked in our bags or humming in our headphones. With audiobooks, Spotify is building new ways to bring our favorite stories along for the ride. Just over two years after launching, Audiobooks in Premium is now live in 22 markets.

Spotify 2d ago

Scroll around the internet and you’ll find a lot of grumbling about subscription prices. Nowadays, everything is a subscription – audio streaming, video streaming, gaming, software, plugins, workstations, AI models, and no doubt several other categories I can’t think of right now.

Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog 2d ago

The creator economy used to be an adjacent entertainment ecosystem to traditional entertainment. Those days are numbered – if not over already. Creators are now a foundational component in how traditional entertainment produces and distributes content at scale. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 3d ago

From immersive storytelling to laugh-out-loud comedies, podcasts are booming in popularity across Mexico and Latin America. That’s why we’re excited to announce that next month, Mexico’s biggest podcast celebration, the Spotify Podcast Awards, are back.

Spotify 3d ago

A lot of attention is being paid to the “rules of engagement” for podcasting: format preferences, video versus audio, and platform battles like YouTube versus Spotify. The industry is deeply focused on how and where audiences are consuming podcasts, and rightly so. Source

MIDiA Research Blog 3d ago

After failing in Congress, the White House is pressuring states to weaken AI safeguards, tying funding threats to policy outcomes and quietly reshaping laws that govern emerging technology today nationwide.

MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY 3d ago

This is a copy of the job description at:https://join.com/companies/metabrainzorg/15986127-executive-directorPlease use the above link to apply. The MetaBrainz Foundation is seeking a new Executive Director (ED) to lead it during a time of great change for how music, data, and code are made, shared...

MetaBrainz Blog 4d ago

This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 million. It was his most significant solo performance in years. But Bieber spent some of his time on stage the way many of us do on Saturday nights: on YouTube.

The Verge 4d ago

Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival.

The Verge 4d ago

I mean, I guess it kinda looks like the moon? | Image: Kate NV / RVNG Intl. For obvious reasons, I've had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit.

The Verge 5d ago

A month ago I wrote about building the Parachord Android app in a few days. 146 commits, a full native app, Spotify and Apple Music playback, scrobbling, AI chat, the works. I was genuinely surprised it came together that fast.

Parachord Blog 6d ago