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Kevin Parker won his second Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Recording with "End of Summer" but missed the Premiere Ceremony due to Perth timing.
Laurie Spiegel's The Expanding Universe blends synth experimentalism, early ambient textures, and algorithmic composition to create timeless, forward-looking electronic music.
Willie Colón, influential New York-born trombonist and salsa innovator, died at 75, expanding and politicizing salsa while bridging Caribbean and urban musical traditions.
Alysa Liu performed a new exhibition routine to PinkPantheress's "Stateside" remix featuring Zara Larsson after winning Olympic gold.
Durand Bernarr won Best Progressive R&B Grammy for Bloom, celebrated Black History Month and LGBTQ+ visibility, honored independent artists, and announced a deluxe edition.
The Dear Hunter releases Sunya on March 20, blending synth textures, dystopian lyrics, and funk/jazz-fusion influences on lead single 'The Glass Desert I - Giants'.
Willie Colón, pioneering trombonist, bandleader, and composer central to the creation and political energy of salsa, has died at 75.
The Sacconi Quartet's silver-jubilee performance showcased a striking Freya Waley-Cohen premiere and strong, organic ensemble playing despite occasional intonation lapses.
Guggi survived a 2021 brain aneurysm and recounts the sudden onset during an evening with his wife, alongside his religious upbringing and friendship with Bono.
Barry Manilow postponed the early leg of his tour because his lungs remain too weak after early-stage lung cancer treatment, requiring rescheduled February–March dates.
Foo Fighters will play a last-minute Dublin show on 23 February with €99 in-person tickets, strict ID and physical-card rules, two-ticket limit.
Kevin Puts's Emily - No Prisoner Be blends intimate chamber writing and symphonic scope, showcased by Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three in Carnegie Hall.
Longtime fans confront conflicted loyalties when musicians express controversial far-right views, causing visible fandom symbols like tattoos to carry fraught political meanings.
A personal playlist of formative songs showing childhood memories, karaoke favorites, guilty pleasures, and music that inspired learning bass and shaped musical taste.
Downtown Music Holdings completed acquisition and merger with Virgin Music Group for $775 million; founder Justin Kalifowitz is stepping away.
Songs repeatedly played during 1960s-1970s family road trips became powerful memory anchors, evoking sensory details and bonding experiences across generations.
Noise Pop presents a DeVotchKa tribute at Gray Area featuring experimental, reinterpreted performances of the band's cinematic, orchestral indie rock including Little Miss Sunshine material.
Madonna functioned as a powerful cultural icon whose dream-appearances revealed, mediated, and provoked complex sexual feelings, fantasies, and anxieties across diverse audiences.
Willie Colón, pioneering trombonist and salsa innovator, died at 75 after a career beginning in New York youth bands and early signing to Fania Records.
Al Bowlly's 1930s voice became culturally iconic, featured in The Shining, and he died in the 1941 London Blitz shortly after recording an anti-Hitler song.
A modular synth system uses snap-together physical blocks for each function, making synthesis tangible, teachable, and scalable from beginner toy to serious performance instrument.
Willie Colon was a pioneering Puerto Rican-American trombonist, vocalist and composer who transformed salsa and examined Puerto Rican identity through genre-blending music.
Jadakiss, Fat Joe, and BMAC CEO Prophet led Universal Music Group's Love Black Music event in NYC to honor Black music, culture, and industry reform.
Alysa Liu skated her Gala program to PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson's remix of 'Stateside,' celebrating in a sparkly navy dress.
Arturia released FX Collection 6 with two new plugins—EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-910—and introduced an Intro version for $99 while the Pro full bundle costs $499.
Bruce Springsteen's 2026 Land of Hope and Dreams U.S. tour sold out rapidly, forcing fans to rely on verified resale platforms and fan exchanges.
Willie Colón, Bronx-born trombonist and bandleader, revolutionized salsa with trombone-led arrangements and influential collaborations and died at 75.
Kid Rock is selling limited "First Class Seats" up to $5,000 for front-row spots and is publicly criticizing media coverage as "fake liberal media."
