Music News

October 22, 2017

Likely tornado hits casino where Beach Boys playing

High winds and torrential rains accompanying a likely tornado tore part of the roof off of an Oklahoma casino on Saturday ...

October 22, 2017

Foo Fighters postpone Kentucky show at last minute

Foo Fighters postponed a concert in Kentucky, hours before the band was expected to take the stage, because of an unspecified ...

October 21, 2017

UK paper sorry for airbrushing out Solange Knowles's braids

Britain's Evening Standard newspaper has apologized to Solange Knowles for digitally altering an image of the singer on the ...

October 20, 2017

Kansas City looks at taking over struggling jazz museum

A jazz museum that's plagued by operating losses and bounced checks to musicians could be headed for a takeover by Kansas ...

October 20, 2017

Kate del Castillo releases doc 'The Day I Met El Chapo'

Kate del Castillo says she just "wants closure" and is hoping to get it from the release of her new three-part docuseries ...

October 20, 2017

Survivors attend benefit concert for Vegas shooting victims

Some survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting said they were ready for closure, though they confessed feeling engulfed by ...

October 20, 2017

Vegas shooting survivors attend benefit concert

Some survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting said they were ready for closure, though they confessed feeling engulfed by ...

October 19, 2017

Howard Carroll, lead guitarist for Dixie Hummingbirds, dies

A lead guitarist for the influential and Grammy Award-winning gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds has died in Philadelphia.

October 19, 2017

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for ...

October 19, 2017

Demi Lovato, Shawn Mendes to perform at MTV Europe Awards

Pop star Demi Lovato, singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes, rockers The Killers and grime artist Stormzy are set to perform at ...

Chris Stapelton, Brian Kelly, Tyler Hubbard, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan

October 19, 2017

Country stars honor shooting victims at CMT Artists show

Singer Jason Aldean and other stars honored victims of a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas instead of ...

October 19, 2017

Elvis house, Marilyn dresses, JFK radio up for auction

Years before Elvis Presley became the King of Rock and Roll, the story goes, he lived in a small house up a hill from his ...

October 19, 2017

Little Rock police arrest suspected 1st shooter at nightclub

The person suspected of firing first during a mass shooting at a Little Rock rap concert last summer has been arrested, ...

October 19, 2017

Gord Downie, lead singer of The Tragically Hip, has died

Gord Downie, who made himself part of Canada's national identity with songs about hockey and small towns as lead singer and ...

October 18, 2017

Syrian-American musicians raise voices as homeland suffers

When Samer Saem Eldahr finished university, he was ready to spread his wings and start his career. He planned a month away ...

October 18, 2017

Grammy museum pays homage to New Jersey musical legacy

Newark is joining Los Angeles, Nashville and Cleveland, Mississippi, as a host of a museum celebrating the Grammy music ...

October 18, 2017

Review: Margo Price's 'All American Made' is superb quality

Margo Price, "All American Made" (Third Man Records) Margo Price extends her deep country roots in new directions on "All ...

October 18, 2017

New country traditionalist Jon Pardi dances to his own beat

When Jon Pardi was a kid growing up in Northern California, he was so obsessed with country music that when he was asked his ...

October 18, 2017

Mehta, Israel Philharmonic to start tour at Carnegie Hall

Conductor Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra are starting a two-week North American tour at New York's ...