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Nine people were injured when shots rang out just before 1 a.m. Sunday in Riverfront Live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Irish rockers U2 have released a short album on Ash Wednesday with a track celebrating radical anti-ICE activist Renee Good and ripping Trump supporters.

Queer singer Brandi Carlile has announced a donation of $25,000 to her own nonprofit to help with legal representation for anyone arrested for immigration violations in Minnesota.

Heavy metal legend Dee Snider has resigned from Twisted Sister, prompting the band to cancel the remaining dates on its 50th anniversary concert tour.

Singer Rosanne Cash is calling on all of her fans who support the Trump administration to unfollow her on social media, and suggested they refrain from telling her to “shut up and sing” due to her no longer being “relevant.”

“Our baby girl Mikey Moon Trainor has finally made it to the world thanks to our incredible, superwoman surrogate,” singer Meghan Trainor wrote on social media.

Rapper Ludacris has quit a country music-focused tour after woke fans criticized him for working with MAGA-associated artists.

P!nk revealed on social media that she spent New Year’s Eve in the hospital undergoing disc replacement surgery in her neck.

Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the British rock band the Cure, died on Christmas Day at 65, the band says.

Shirley Manson, the lead singer for the band Garbage, went off in a curse-filled tirade at fans from the stage during a concert in Melbourne.

Japanese pop singer Maki Otsuki was in the middle of a concert in Shanghai on Friday when her performance was abruptly cut short, her sound system was turned off, and the organizers ordered her to leave the stage.

Three men have been charged with murder in the death of 22-year-old singer DELAROSA, who was fatally shot in what prosecutors describe as an “ambush-style attack.”

Solomon Ray topped the iTunes Top 100 Christian and gospel albums chart last week, and he’s not even real … or Christian … or black. He’s an AI creation.

The world’s biggest music labels have struck AI licensing deals with a little-known startup named Klay Vision, the companies said Thursday, the latest in a series of deals that underlines how the technology is shaking up the music industry ’s business model.

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo left an angry comment on a social media post from the DHS scolding the federal agency for using one of her songs in a video about deportations.

Singer Tish Hyman is calling on lawmakers in all 50 states “to take immediate steps toward creating and enforcing legislation that protects the right to women-only spaces,” such as preventing dysphoric men from entering women’s public restrooms.

Universal Music Group and AI song generation platform Udio have settled a copyright infringement lawsuit and agreed to team up on new music creation and streaming platform, the two companies said in a joint statement.

Irish singer Róisín Murphy was dumped as headliner of a music festival in Islamist Istanbul, Turkey, after she celebrated the fact that fewer children are now identifying as transgender.

Longtime Moody Blues bassist, singer and songwriter John Lodge died suddenly and unexpectedly at age 82 on Friday while surrounded by his family.

Leftist rocker Neil Young has pulled his music from Amazon and is calling for a boycott because, he says, the online retail giant supports Donald Trump’s government.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin told his audience to “send love” to Charlie Kirk’s family on Friday night at his band’s concert in Wembley, United Kingdom.

Irish singer Róisín Murphy says journalists essentially blackmailed over her criticism of puberty blockers for confused children.

Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81.

Artists are telling their fans not to listen to artificial intelligence (AI) knockoff albums of themselves that strangers are creating.

The rock band KISS says it is “deeply honored” to be recognized as one of 2025’s Kennedy Center honorees, despite previously attacking President Donald Trump, the center’s chairman, as “abhorrent.” KISS members Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley “all

Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85.

Mike Posner, the singer of the 2015 hit “I Took A Pill in Ibiza” — a song about buying expensive things and taking drugs in Spain during his rise to fame, while feeling unfulfilled and struggling to find meaning —

Michael Tait, who was the lead singer of the popular Christian bands DC Talk and Newsboys, has  reportedly been accused of sexual assault by eight men.

Alan Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with his wife, Marilyn, for an enduring and loving partnership that produced such old-fashioned hits as “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?,” “It Might Be You” and the classic “The Way We Were,” has died at 99.

Faith-based “traditional pop” music, also known as “tradpop,” is reportedly making a comeback as conservative ideals become more mainstream following a broader cultural shift in the United States and President Donald Trump’s landslide 2024 election victory. Alex Warren’s faith-based love

Carol Kaye, a prolific and revered bassist who played on thousands of songs in the 1960s including hits by the Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and Barbra Streisand, told The Associated Press on Friday that she wants no part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters.

May 31 (UPI) — A popular Mexican band named Grupo Firme was scheduled to play the La Onda Fest on Sunday, but it has canceled due to work visa-processing issues. The festival is being held in Napa Valley, Calif., but

Troubled rapper and fashion designer Kanye West declared he is “done with antisemitism” just weeks after he released a song where he chants “N*gga, Heil Hitler” as a repeated chorus.

During a performance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder voiced a defense of left-wing rocker Bruce Springsteen, who continues to bash the United States while touring overseas.

Musician Sufjan Stevens, who often includes queer content in his music, told Vulture that the Holy Bible is “very gay” and religion is “sexual.”