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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 [...]
The app has launched artists into near-astronomical levels of fame. Even people who don’t have TikTok on their home screen must find it hard to avoid the app’s influence. Dances, challenges and comedy bits from the social media giant, which only allows video posts of under a minute in length, appear on Facebook, Twitter and [...]
Shambhala Music Festival has officially postponed again, moving from 2021 to 2022. Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Shambhala was forced to postpone (in other words, cancel) its 2020 event. Now, as festival season draws near once again, organizers give a much needed update in the post below. In light of the ongoing public health [...]
While Dorsey -- who is also the co-founder and CEO of Square, who recently acquired a majority stake in Tidal -- may be the new owner of a music streaming service, Twitter’s relationship with the music industry has soured over the years. Once beloved across the industry, Twitter is quickly becoming a pariah, according to [...]
Photo by Dean Budnick On March 18, Newport Folk Festival shared a message from Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, noting that “There will be music in Newport this summer.” And while organizers of the historic festival are quick to note that Newport 2021 will have “modified capacities” and “won’t look exactly the same,” they are [...]