Cowboy Carter', the new album by Beyoncé (42), is breaking one record after another. The album was only released on Friday and is reaching milestones according to the streaming services. Beyoncé's country album 'Cowboy Carter' reached a record on both Spotify and Amazon Music. On Spotify it is the album that has been streamed the most in one day (in 2024). It is also the first time that a country […]
About two hundred mostly American artists have called on tech companies not to train AI models on copyrighted music. That would threaten artists' incomes. The artists, under the banner of Artists Rights Alliance, want tech companies to promise not to create tools that replace human work in music and threaten artists' incomes. “These efforts are directly aimed at replacing the work of human artists with massive amounts of AI-created 'sounds' and […]
Longtime Styx bassist Ricky Phillips has announced that he is leaving the band after being a part of it for more than 20 years. "Dear Friends, after touring for 50 years with The Babys, Bad English, opening for Tina Turner (on the Private Dancer tour with John Parr), Belinda Carlisle's first solo tour, rehearsing in Tahoe and recording at Little Mountain in Canada with Jimmy Page and David Coverdale and writing, touring, and co-producing 10/10 with Ronnie Montrose, to name a chosen few... I'm taking […]
Ozzy Osbourne has joined Billy Morrison on the new single "Crack Cocaine," which also features guitarist Steve Stevens. "Crack Cocaine" appears on Morrison's upcoming album The Morrison Project, due out April 19. The track also features Tommy Clufetos, who plays drums in Ozzy's solo band. Other guests on The Morrison Project include Billy Idol, Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Steve Vai, Motley Crue guitarist John 5 and Linda Perry. Much of the record was co-written by Jeordie White, aka ex-Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez. "The song's not about crack cocaine," Osbourne told Rolling […]
The Pretty Reckless are set to provide support for AC/DC on their upcoming European tour. The news was announced earlier this week, when AC/DC shared a poster for their first European tour in eight years, which will feature the Taylor Momsen-fronted band as the only opener on all 24 dates. The tour is slated to kick off on May 17 at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The trek follows AC/DC's 2023 Power Trip performance and […]
Parlophone Records has announced that a new 5CD and 1 Blu-Ray audio David Bowie box set will be released on June 14. David Bowie - Rock 'N' Roll Star! explores Bowie's journey from February 1971 through the creation of the Ziggy Stardust character, the recording of the iconic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album, and captures U.K. radio sessions and TV performances, as well as live tracks from […]
UB40 will celebrate '45 years of UB40' in the Ziggo Dome on Friday, November 29, 2024! Ticket sales are through Ticketmaster. The UB40 lineup consists of founding members Jimmy Brown (drums), Robin Campbell (co-lead vocals/guitar), Earl Falconer (bass/vocals) and Norman Hassan (percussion/vocals), plus Matt Doyle (lead vocals, since Duncan retired in June 2021), Martin Meredith (sax/keys), Laurence Parry (trumpet) and Tony Mullings (keys). UB40's energetic performances are 'a trip down […]
Madonna has announced that she will perform an historic free concert in Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro on May 4 at the majestic Copacabana Beach as the culmination of her universally praised The Celebration Tour. The show will be free of charge as a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour. It will also […]
The members of ABBA will not participate in a major Swedish TV show that will be made in early April in honor of Waterloo's fiftieth anniversary. Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson have decided to reject all requests related to the anniversary, the group's manager told the Swedish newspaper 'Expressen'.
