Take yourself back, if you will, to the winter of 2007, when online concerts by your favorite artists were still a fun occasional treat instead of a way of life. Radiohead had just made one of the best albums of their career with In Rainbows, recorded over the preceding year …

UPDATE:Following publication,sources with intimate knowledge of the situation claim toRolling Stone that while reps for Dylan did have early conversations with Mercuriadis, UMPG was the only company in which a potential deal was discussed in detail. **** Prior to taking his deal with Universal Music Publishing Group, Bob Dylan turned …

Depending on who you ask, live music won’t be back in full force for months, seasons, or even several more years. Even after a Covid-19 vaccine rolls out around the globe, it’ll be a while before concert tours can reassemble and restart. So AEG, the largest music promoter in North …

UPDATE (12/15): Global Citizen has announced that this year’s honorees will include Bryan Stevenson, Sir Elton John, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Warren Buffett, Sesame Workshop, and the Co-Founders of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Katie Couric, Miley Cyrus, Oprah Winfrey, Scott Evans, and …

David Lander, the comic actor best known for playing “Squiggy” on Laverne & Shirley, has died at the age of 73 following a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. The actor’s family confirmed to Variety that Lander died Friday evening at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife Kathy by …

A Trump liaison has been banned from the Justice Department building after she pressured staff to allow her to access confidential information about the election as well as other matters. According to the Associated Press, White House aide Heidi Stirrup began working from the DOJ in recent months, but she …

Stevie Nicks has revealed a lyric video for the piano version of “Show Them the Way,” dedicating it to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The video features the song’s lyrics splashed across the screen in a variety of fonts, as Nicks seeks guidance from historical figures. “I don’t know if …

Bonnie Raitt and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons are among the artists set to perform at a special free virtual concert celebrating the 60th anniversary of the famed folk label, Arhoolie Records, December 10th at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The concert will air on YouTube and will be hosted by …

With the reality of losing his reelection campaign setting in, it appears as though Donald Trump is focusing on announcing his plans to run again before year’s end. According to the Daily Beast, Trump has spoken to close advisers about how and when to kickstart his 2024 run, and the …

Since the nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards were announced on Tuesday afternoon, the conversation among fans, pop critics, and industry insiders has circled around one notable absence: the Weeknd. The Canadian pop star’s After Hours, released in March, was one of 2020’s biggest commercial success stories, with 1.8 billion …