Meghan Trainor, Maren Morris t...
Trainor will receive the “chart topper” award, while Morris has been named this year’s “breakthrough artist.”
PBS series delves into history...
Music Institution Saxon Pub Is...
Instead, Saxon is remaining right in South Austin under a new landlord, Gary Keller of Keller Williams Realty, as reported by Statesman. This also means that Saxon Pub isn’t opening within the massive mixed-use project Saint Elmo Market District. The original plans for the bar’s relocation to Saint Elmo included the restaurant and bar and a dedicated listening room.
Alicia Keys, Common, Jim James...
Plus, get reviews of the latest from Common, Jim James and more.
Gigi Hadid Talks Co-Hosting Am...
Hadid will co-host the Nov. 20 awards show with ‘SNL’ alum Jay Pharoah.
Rihanna sings her way into the...
R&B star Rihanna has become the first artist in the digital music age to achieve over 100 million digital song certifications. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Rihanna has actually clocked up an astounding 110.5 million song certifications in the US, a first in the digital music age. To achieve just one digital certification under the RIAA's criteria, a track has to be downloaded once — e.g., via a purchase form iTunes or Amazon, etc — or streamed 150 times.
Michael Buble Cancels BBC Musi...
The singer revealed last week his 3-year-old son has cancer.
Music Monday (11/7): This Week...
Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Metallica, Green Day, and Nick Cave, plus brand new streaming music from the Chemical Brothers, Sleigh Bells, Bob Dylan, Japandroids, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic
Electronic music pioneer Jean-...
Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey, who pioneered electronic music and whose scores were used by Disney and in the hit children's TV series "Sesame Street", died on Friday aged 87. Perrey died in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne after a battle with lung cancer, his daughter Patricia Leroy said. The self-taught Perrey quit medical school in 1952 when he met George Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline — a new type of electronic keyboard instrument that was a forerunner to the commercial synthesiser and launched a career in music.
Electronic music pioneer Jean-...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Jean-Jacques Perrey, the French composer and pioneer of electronic pop music who was best known for co-writing “Baroque Hoedown” used as the music for the Main Street Electrical Parade at Disney theme parks, has died at age 87.