Football commentator and former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson allegedly bullied rocker Janis Joplin when they were students at the same Texas high school, according to a new book.
A 23-year-old blind singer with autism was crowned the winner of America’s Got Talent on Wednesday against the runner up Detroit Youth Choir.
Rap superstar and fashion mogul Kanye West confirmed the release date of his highly anticipated new album, Jesus is King, while speaking at a Baptist Church in Atlanta on Sunday, new footage has revealed.
Rascal Flatts co-founder and bass player Jay DeMarcus says he is “not preachy,” but laments the loss of America’s Christian roots.
Prodigy co-founder Liam Howlett said in an Instagram post that Keith Flint killed himself over the weekend.
Black metal music label Elegy Records is closing down after it was allegedly blacklisted by PayPal and credit card processors.
It’s me again, your Breitbart editor with bad music takes. Though it’s not really a regular beat for us, I do like to reflect on good songs I’ve discovered through the year — and in this here 2018, the list is a little different.
Music streaming service Spotify attempted to push its users into voting this week by releasing custom state playlists and sending messages to users reminding them to vote.
French rapper Nick Conrad could be facing charges of hate speech after releasing a new song in which he advocated for the hanging of white people and the killing of white babies.
TEL AVIV – More than twenty thousand jubilant Israelis descended on Tel Aviv’s main square Monday night for a free victory concert by Netta Barzilai to celebrate her landslide triumph at the 63rd Eurovision song contest.
A dissident reggaetón artist imprisoned after a Cuban government agent attacked him while using the internet has been placed in solitary confinement in prison and refused to eat or drink water for one week, his mother told the Miami-based news outlet Martí Noticias this week.
Pop megastar Bruno Mars has received the backing of several high-profile black celebrities after he was accused of culturally appropriating black music and profiting from it.
Neil Young came out swinging against Google and other technology companies in a blog post this weekend, explaining that tech giants have made it so hard for artists to make money that he’s not sure where the next great group of artists is going to come from.
Best Buy will stop selling music CDs, amid the growth of digital music streaming, despite the fact that the reailer used to be the most popular music seller in the United States.
Songwriters and publishers are set to receive increased royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, and other music streaming services, following a ruling.
Musician Jack White has banned the use of mobile phones and other recording equipment on his upcoming tour, where attendees will have their technology locked inside a secure pouch.
A ten-hour long YouTube video consisting of nothing but pure white noise has received five copyright complaints since it was published.
Digital music streaming services now reportedly account for the majority of music consumption in Britain.
TEL AVIV – Radiohead kept it classy on a muggy Wednesday night in Tel Aviv, with the only reference to the vociferous BDS campaign being waged against them playing in the Jewish state coming from frontman Thom Yorke who muttered: “A lot of stuff was said about this, and in the end we played some music.”
“Bot Dylan,” an A.I. music composer, has created over 100,000 new folks songs after studying 23,000 tradition Irish tunes.
British rock band Radiohead has no intention of listening to Roger Waters and will go ahead as planned with a concert in Tel Aviv later this summer.
A Florida man has been arrested after he threatened McDonald’s staff because they were playing Christmas music and he demanded they play Muslim music instead.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong invited a fan onstage to play guitar with him during a performance in Oakland on Saturday night, and paid a tribute to the 36 people who perished in the December 2 fire at the Oakland warehouse known as the “Ghost Ship.”
Leonard Cohen, rock music’s man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning him critical and popular acclaim, has died at age 82, a statement on his Facebook page said.
TEL AVIV – South African rap duo, Die Antwoord, is being pressured by the boycott Israel movement to cancel its upcoming concert in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.
As fans across the globe mourn the loss of Prince, who died suddenly Thursday at the age of 57 at his estate in Minnesota, many are taking comfort in the music he left behind.
President Barack Obama invited several entertainers to the White House for a “youth empowerment” program — including rapper Rick Ross, who was just indicted for assaulting and kidnapping two workers he caught throwing a party at his 235-acre Fayetteville, Georgia home.
During her set at the Coachella music festival Saturday night, Canadian songstress Grimes used a huge graphic of erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders as a backdrop.
A man known in Turkey as the “Rockin’ Imam” has been denied permission to give a concert in Portugal by Turkey’s religious enforcement authority, the Diyanet. Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer says his concert would have been “an important publicity opportunity” for Islam in the West.
After her anti-cop, politically charged Super Bowl halftime show, members of the New York Police Department are now demanding an apology from pop singer Beyoncé for her controversial performance.
