Business owner: Don’t look now, but Roanoke is quietly becoming Virginia’s Music City
At a time when independent live music venues across the country are struggling, one place seems to be moving in the opposite direction: Roanoke, Virginia. As a music lover, I can feel it on any given Friday night. The hardest part is not finding a show. It is choosing between them. I can slip into […]
Roomful of Teeth and Gabriel Kahane's new album is an emotionally turbulent ride | Iowa …
On his new album of songs written for the vocal group Roomful of Teeth, Gabriel Kahane imagines a hotel populated by eccentric guests. Source link
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Olivia Rodrigo’s New Album & Release Date Announced
Olivia Rodrigo fans won’t be sad at all to hear this news: On Thursday (April 2), the singer announced that her highly anticipated third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is dropping this summer. Sharing the album’s dreamy cover — a photo of Rodrigo leaning backward on a swing, backdropped […]
BTS’ ‘2.0’ Music Video Draws Inspiration From Movie ‘Oldboy’
After returning from their four-year hiatus, BTS is making sure that ARMY is being fed. The K-pop superstars dropped a new music video for a second ARIRANG song in only two weeks on Wednesday (April 1), and they’re drawing inspiration from a classic film for the “2.0” visual. The cinematic music video is inspired by […]
Prosecutors used hip-hop lyrics to help sentence a man to death: ‘This only happens to rap music’ | US news
Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Freeourart/GoFundMe James Broadnax has been locked up in a 6ft-by-10ft cell on death row in Texas for more than 16 years, and in that time he has developed coping mechanisms for passing the long and desolate days. A favourite technique is to write spoken word poetry at his cell desk. He […]
Māori music – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation – page 1
March 31, 2026 Austin Haynes, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Over 100 years after Pō Atarau was popularised, it’s on the soundtrack of Ryan Gosling’s blockbuster Project Hail Mary. But who was the remarkable woman behind it? Instagram February 10, 2026 Rebecca J Evans, Auckland University of Technology and Thomas Watts, Auckland […]
Beyond The Music Conference Confirms 2026 Location & Dates
Beyond The Music will return in 2026 in a brand new venue, Billboard U.K. can exclusively reveal. The third edition of the music conference and festival will take place at Salford’s MediaCity from Oct. 7-9 and bring together leading figures from across music, culture, tech, politics and beyond. The news arrives as Greater Manchester celebrates […]
Obongjayar on defying genre stereotypes, touring Australia and Little Simz
Obongjayar understands the wisdom of the old saying that variety is the spice of life. “Sometimes you might like rice, sometimes you may like beans. You might want to go get Thai or Japanese or French food,” he says. The cuisine analogy has arisen as the 32-year-old musician’s way of describing his approach to making […]