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When Duran Duran jumped onto the global music stage in the early 1980s, critics dismissed them as just another teen boy group, albeit with good musical chops, who were most likely the flavor of the moment. But the band continued pounding out albums and scoring hits, and this Sunday’s live performance at the Billboard Music [...]
Doja Cat is here and she is serving another bold red carpet look! The 25-year-old musician arrived at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, wearing a black-and-white striped matching set. The two-piece outfit is an archival design from Balmain. The ensemble features a bandeau top with pleated, oversized sleeves that fan out. The sleeves are attached to [...]
The venue will welcome audiences back indoors June 19 for the Tribeca Festival’s closing night. In the latest sign of just how quickly vaccinations are changing what New Yorkers can and can’t do, Radio City Music Hall plans to reopen next month to welcome full-capacity, maskless audiences — as long as each ticket holder has [...]
Lt. Alan Porchetti teaches guitar to young students in Trenton. Photo courtesy of Salvation Army Lt. Alan Porchetti lives a life steeped in Salvation Army. In fact, he credits the organization with his family’s survival. He and his mother immigrated from Argentina in 2001 and went from JFK International Airport directly to the Salvation Army’s [...]
Pulsating crowds, booming open-air sound systems, megastars lapping up the adoration of thousands -- music festivals are fast receding into distant memory thanks to Covid, but one event in Serbia is refusing to yield. The Exit Festival -- one of Europe's biggest with organisers saying 200,000 attended in 2019 -- is aiming to become the [...]
Antitrust authorities in the European bloc have filed charges that could bring multibillion-dollar fines. The new case comes on the verge of a huge trial between Epic Games and Apple. The European Commission has announced it will be pursuing Apple in an antitrust case that accuses the company of distorting the music streaming market through [...]
LONDON: Several thousand music fans on Friday became the first people in Britain in more than a year to legally dance, drink and listen to music in a nightclub, as part of a test to see whether social distancing measures can be eased without triggering new coronavirus outbreaks. The afternoon-admission gig at a warehouse in [...]
Take a look at all of the week’s can’t-miss music moments below. Slime Language 2 was No. 1 As Billboard's Keith Caulfield reports, the Slime Language 2 project from Young Thug’s Young Stoner Life Records debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, earning 113,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the [...]
When David Carpenter, of Cabot, passed away on March 22, Cabot and the New England music community lost a staunch stalwart of tradition and a fine New England-style fiddler. “David was such an oak, organizing and leading the music for the dance over so very many years, tirelessly carrying on a decades-long tradition of a [...]
Demi Lovato Reflects on Reenacting Overdose for 'Dancing With the Devil' Music Video Demi Lovato hopes her journey can help others. The singer's emotional new song "Dancing With the Devil" is about her 2018 near-fatal overdose, with Lovato reenacting that fateful night for the music video. Lovato speaks in depth about her overdose and struggles with [...]