Last month Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group struck a licensing deal with an AI music streaming startup called Klay, meaning tens of thousands of songs can now legally be used to train the company’s generative AI model. WMG has said that deals like this will allow for “new revenue streams for artists and songwriters, while ensuring …

Reik is going on tour next year. On Dec. 1, the Mexican pop band revealed their upcoming 2026 U.S. tour. Produced by Cardenas Marketing Network (CMN), the highly anticipated dates will kick off at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago, IL, on Mar. 5, and wrap up at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park in San The post Reik Announces New …

Maná isn’t done singing their classics yet. On Dec. 1, the iconic rock pop band revealed the extension of their “Vivir Sin Aire Tour,” with new dates for 2026. The new tour dates include stops in cities like Washington, DC, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Anaheim, and Las Vegas. Maná’s new tour dates include concerts at The post Maná Extends ‘Vivir …

The Chicago hip-hop producer Lapgan, best known around these parts for last year’s great collaborative album with Heems, has a fun new project on deck for the end of this week. On Friday, he’ll release Lapgan Is Ecstatic, an album-length reimagining of Mos Def/Yasiin Bey’s 2009 stunner The Ecstatic, now infused with the South Asian… The post Lapgan Announces Mos …

Are you looking for Cyber Monday deals today? Perhaps your loved ones would appreciate the gift of a used refrigerator. But it’s not just any used refrigerator. It’s a used refrigerator that was supposedly once the property of Ariel Pink, a onetime indie rock cult star who took a hard right-wing turn and became an occasional Tucker Carlson guest. Also, …

Vidar Landa has played guitar for the great Norwegian death ‘n’ roll band Kvelertak ever since they got started in 2007. For the past year or so, Landa has also gone in an extremely different direction with his solo side project King Hüsky. As King Hüsky, Landa carefully crafts pretty, catchy, gentle indie pop. Earlier… The post King Hüsky – …

We aren’t getting too many new albums between now and the actual end of the year, but one of the few that drops this week is Unclouded, the latest from Melody Prochet, the French psych-pop artist who records as Emily’s Echo Chamber. I have heard the full record, and it’s just as pretty and spacey… The post Melody’s Echo Chamber …

Bad Bunny will headline next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. We know this. It’s become a whole political issue, with Donald Trump weighing in and everything. Now, the NFL has announced the list of artists who will perform on next year’s Super Bowl pregame show, and someone will probably find a way to get mad about that, too. The post …

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and filmmaker Alex Stapleton joined ABC’s Good Morning America to discuss the highly anticipated Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which features never-before-seen footage of the… The post 50 Cent and Alex Stapleton Preview Netflix’s “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” on Good Morning America appeared first on .

Paul Anka started out as a teen idol in the ’50s before embarking on a near-endless career as a Las Vegas entertainment fixture. Along the way, Anka, now 84, became one of the diminishing number of living people who can claim to have seen Frank Sinatra’s penis in the flesh. Now, Anka has gone on record about Sinatra’s junk, causing …