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.”
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.” “I can
A Chicago man is accused of robbing a musician of his one-of-a-kind violin that is worth $10,000.
Baylee Littrell, the son of Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell, performed a religious song during his latest round on ABC’s American Idol and shared how writing the ballad helped him rediscover his faith.
Jon Kahn — Breitbart News’s COO and the chart-topping songwriter behind the Trump-inspired song “Fighter” — says his recent journey into faith, explored in his latest single “Fingerprints,” has made him further aware of “the left’s attempt to toxify religion”
John Dolmayan, drummer of the rock band System of a Down, said he voted for President Donald Trump and he’s glad he won.
D’Wayne Wiggins, a founding member of the Grammy-nominated group Tony! Toni! Tone! behind the classic 1990s jams “Anniversary,” “It Never Rains (In Southern California)” and (Lay Your Head on My) Pillow,” has died. He was 64.
NEW YORK (AP) — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ego, Buster Poindexter, has died. He was 75.
Franky Venegas, a social media influencer and half of the garish rap duo “Island Boys,” has been arrested in Florida on gun and drug charges.
British rocker Phil Collins, the drummer-singer for the band Genesis who became a chart-topping solo artist, says he has no drive to make new music because of severe health issues.
Voletta Wallace, the dedicated mother of the late great rapper The Notorious B.I.G. and protector of his legacy, died Friday morning. She was 78.
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry, and other creative fields.
The company that owns rapper Eminem’s early music catalog is suing a Ford dealership in Michigan for using “Lose Yourself” in its ads.
Prosecutors said Friday that they will not file charges against Marilyn Manson after a years-long investigation of allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Paul McCartney urged the British government not to make a change to copyright laws that he says could let artificial intelligence companies rip off artists.
Rappers Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross appeared at the pre-inauguration “Crypto Ball” on Friday — signaling a change of heart for both rappers after they fantasized about killing President-elect Donald Trump in their music, with Snoop even pretending to point
Wayne Osmond — who was one of the members of The Osmonds, a musical group popular in the 1960s and 1970s that consisted of siblings — has died at the age of 73.
Rapper OG Maco has died surrounded by his family in an L.A. hospital 16 days after a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was only 32.
Pop singer and Kamala Harris campaigner Lizzo is speaking out against her former employees who accused her of sexual misconduct.
