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Live Nation Urban has announced its collaborative, renewed partnership with Polly Irungu’s Black Women Photographers Organization. For the third straight year, the leading source of live entertainment will invite a select cohort of black women photographers and videographers to shoot its much-anticipated slate of upcoming summer and fall festivals. The initiative will offer a paid […]

Drake and Kendrick Lamar have spent the first weeks of spring 2024 waging one of the biggest music wars in recent memory against one another, dropping diss tracks with little time in between. And suffice to say, the content of the songs has been shocking. With lyrics containing everything from […]

This week’s crop of new releases includes Miranda Lambert’s first new music since inking with Republic Records in partnership with Big Loud, as well as Randy Travis’s new song, which was recorded with the help of AI. The lineup also includes music from Kameron Marlowe, Tenille Arts, Colby Acuff, Jesse […]

JoJo Siwa proved she totally gets the joke on Monday morning (May 6) when she posted her reaction to a hilarious bit from this weekend’s “Weekend Update” in SNL where cast member Chloe Fineman tried to channel the off-the-charts energy of Siwa’s latest transformation. In a since timed-out Instagram Story […]

The anniversaries are piling up on Curb | Word Entertainment chairman Mike Curb. This year is the 60th anniversary of Curb Records’ founding. April 29 marked 30 years since Belmont University announced its highest-profile program was being renamed the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. And the school just wrapped the 50th-anniversary […]

Six months after hundreds of concertgoers were killed at Nova Music Festival, remnants left behind are on display in New York City as part of an immersive exhibition titled The Nova Music Festival Exhibition: October 7th 06:29 AM. Billboard News interviewed a few survivors at the exhibit before its April […]

Randy Travis is thanking his fans for helping to inspire him to record his first new single in a decade, “Where That Came From.” The 64-year-old singer whose voice was mostly taken from him following a 2013 stroke released the new ballad on Friday and appeared on CBS Sunday Morning […]

Don Passman had been teaching a course on music law at USC for several years when he realized his class notes were the outline of a book. “Because musicians are oriented to their ears,” he says, there was an opportunity to write “an easy-to-read overview of the business for people […]

What started in 1991 as a small farewell tour for Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction has since become one of the world’s foremost music festivals: Lollapalooza. And in a new Paramount+ docuseries titled Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza, the rock star and his peers are giving an oral history of […]

Dua Lipa took one more big bite of the apple before leaving New York. After playing double duty as musical guest and host on Saturday Night Live, the singer brought her Radical Optimism vibe to Times Square for a surprise pop-up gig on Sunday night (May 5). Playing to a […]