BMI, a global leader in performing rights management, dedicated to supporting songwriters, composers and publishers and championing the value of music. This week, BMG and Concord confirmed their long

Warner Music Group has been named to TIME‘s sixth annual TIME100 Most Influential Companies list, with the magazine citing the major music company’s approach to AI as the basis for its inclusion. WMG

Amy Allen was named Songwriter of the Year, Sony Music Publishing took home Publisher of the Year for a tenth time, and Die With a Smile by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars was honored as Song of the Year at

Updated May 3, 2026, 11:57 a.m. ET Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are hitting the New Jersey Turnpike a little later than expected. The band's show Friday, May 8 at the Xfinity Mobile Arena

Trending on Billboard Debbie Harry made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live on Saturday night (May 2), emerging from the wings to introduce Olivia Rodrigo‘s performance of new single “drop d

Suno has formally assumed control of Songkick user data — presumably including artist preferences and location information built up through years of Spotify integration. The news comes five months aft

UPDATE Alex Ligertwood's daughter, Merci, tells TMZ ... "My dad loved many things. At the forefront were his family & friends, music, and Scotland. He continued doing shows up until the very end, jus

How would you describe JPEGMAFIA's music? "Experimental rap," perhaps? Well, that's the title of the hip-hop provocateur's upcoming album. The follow-up to 2024's I Lay Down My Life For You arrives ne

The last time that Olivia Rodrigo announced a tour, the big news was that alt-rock legends the Breeders would open her shows in New York and LA. But a different Rodrigo opener was the one who got the

The hugely popular UK dance DJ and producer Fred again.. has a very, very long video up on his YouTube right now. That clip has the title "USB002 EVERY SHOW," and it runs for 108 hours, or about four

It's been a little while since we've heard from Hey, ily. The off-kilter emo-pop project of Montana-bred, Twin Cities-based Caleb Haynes released their sophomore album Hey, I Loathe You! back in 2024,

Tony Wilson, bassist and co-founder of the hitmaking British soul/funk band Hot Chocolate, has passed away. According to the BBC, Wilson died at home in Trinidad last Friday, and his family shared the

London's Windmill scene needs to slow down. It feels like every damn day we learn about another exciting new band that comes out of this one club. Nobody can keep up! The latest band in that post-punk

everyone for ten minutes, the new album from Jack Antonoff's Bleachers, is coming out in just under a month. So far we've heard the singles "the van," "dirty wedding dress," and "you and forever," and

The French dance producer Madeon has been working for a long time without getting much attention from Stereogum, and that seems to be working out just fine for him. He's playing huge festival sets and

In 2019 Glass Beach released their debut LP The First Glass Beach Album, a feat of emo maximalism that earned the quartet a Band To Watch accolade from frequent Stereogum contributor Ian Cohen. In 202

If you steal PinkPantheress' style, she might pop up at your place of work and look you right in your gigantic fake eyes. A beloved cartoon character just had to learn that the hard way. Over the pas

Dairy Queen is a useful scene-setting device. Like John Mellencamp name-checking the Tastee-Freez, songwriters have been dropping DQ into their songs to evoke a small-town milieu for decades. From Ala

Earlier this month, Netflix released the fourth season of Love On The Spectrum, the reality television show about adults with autism looking for love. Last night, the Kid Laroi brought out Connor Toml

Madonna has been ramping up to Confessions II, the sequel to her Stuart Price-produced 2005 club classic Confessions On The Dancefloor. She dropped lead single "I Feel So Free" two weeks back, just be

Last month, Olivia Rodrigo covered the Magnetic Fields' "The Book Of Love" for the HELP(2) benefit compilation. Now, Stephin Merritt and Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold performed the 69 Love Songs classic

Last year, British post-punks Squid released Cowards, which we named our Album Of The Week. Now, guitarist Anton Pearson is making his solo debut as an ambient artist. Driving Through Belgium is out i

This weekend, Olivia Rodrigo is slated to pull a double duty on SNL to celebrate her upcoming record, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, which is out in June. In a promo yesterday, the singer

Just yesterday, JPEGMAFIA announced his new album Experimental Rap. Already, his rollout campaign has become contentious, seemingly by design. Peggy recently did a Pigeons & Planes interview, and the

Mark Kozelek, who performs as Sun Kil Moon and previously led the Red House Painters, faced sexual misconduct allegations from at least 10 women in investigative reports published at Pitchfork in 2020

This weekend Olivia Rodrigo will be doing double duty as host and musical guest on SNL. Taking a break from rehearsals at Rockefeller Center, she sat down with Jimmy Fallon on last night's Tonight Sho

Peter Gabriel has an usual but quite simple release plan for his forthcoming o/i: Every time there's a full moon, he's releasing one new song from the album. Gabriel is the kind of iconic figure who c

You'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you. Right now, Fleetwood Mac are in the midst of a major gen-Z revival that's been going for years, and their 1977 song "Silver Springs" i

The Devil Wears Prada 2, the long-awaited legacyquel, is in theaters now, which means its all-star soundtrack is out, too. A few weeks ago, Lady Gaga and Doechii shared "Runway," their song from the m

In recent months, LA-based Lukas Frank's releases as Storefront Church have been limited to covers of songs by Sisters Of Mercy and Leonard Cohen. Now, he's given us his first new original tune since

John Dwyer, our prolific king, surprise-released a new EP today. The Osees/Damaged Bug/Coachwhips/etc. mastermind writes to his Bandcamp subscribers that he wanted to make "a totally fried recording,

The album announcement has felt like it's been dragged out for years, but Lizzo has announced hear new album Bitch. The singer began her comeback attempt last year, after years of lawsuit battles. She

Bruce Hornsby & The Range released their debut album The Way It Is on April 24, 1986. Big record. The Way It Is went triple platinum, and its title track reached #1 and got sampled on a million rap so

A few days ago London-via-East Yorkshire producer ashnymph, whose real name is Will Wiffen, released his debut EP Childhood and announced the track "47" as a single. It's very good and trippy and weir

"The song just spilled out of me in an afternoon; it’s for the ethers now." So says Hannah Cohen regarding "Golden Chain," her first new song since last year's Earthstar Mountain. It's a minimal, almo

Up until recently, the Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson was an also-ran, almost a punchline. Larsson scored a few breakout American hits in 2015, when she was 17. After that, she went a decade without