NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For 27 years, the Jazz Foundation of America has quietly helped to rebuild the lives of musicians snagged by disasters like the unprecedented flooding that swamped Louisiana in August.

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Solange, The Weeknd, and Faith No More, plus brand new streaming music from NOFX, Conor Oberst, Phantogram, Ab-Soul, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic

As several outlets have reported, every of installment of the rapper-entrepreneurs’s Blueprint series — minus The Blueprint 3 — is now available for streaming on Apple Music and purchase via iTunes. Ordinarily, the reappearance of music on a streaming service wouldn’t be major news, but Jay Z is the face of Tidal, whose parent company reportedly posted a $28 million net loss in 2015 and has been the subject of Apple acquisition rumors recently. While Apple Music head Jimmy Iovine said “We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services” when he was contacted by BuzzFeed’s Reggie Ugwu following news of the loss, his statement leaves wiggle room for Apple to take an offer from a company like Tidal.

Broadway songstress Idina Menzel has been confirmed to perform at the second annual Latin American Music Awards.

Solange Knowles has dropped a pair of new videos for tracks off her newest album "A Seat at the Table."

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Orchestra musicians and its leadership have reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract that includes salary increases each year.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Musicians have been walking picket lines on both ends of Pennsylvania with strikes at orchestras in Pittsburgh and now Philadelphia, prompting cancellation of weekend concerts scheduled in both cities.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonian radio and TV channels have been banned from broadcasting Macedonian and Serbian music due to copyright demands — a move that has led to the postponement of a folk festival.

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is just one of the films you can stream this month.

After recently releasing a new studio album "Skeleton Tree," with his band The Bad Seeds, the Australian artist also dropped a music video to accompany the original soundtrack he composed for the movie "Hell or High Water." Meanwhile, the film "One More Time with Feeling," a documentary featuring by Andrew Dominik to accompany "Skeleton Tree," is set to be back in cinemas December 6 after getting rave reviews in September. Released in August 2016, "Hell or High Water" tells the story of two brothers who carry out a series of robberies to save the family farm after the death of their father. A Texas ranger, played by Jeff Bridges, is sent to catch the pair.

The brains behind such multi-day music festivals as Electric Daisy Carnival and Lollapalooza are combining to create a new one in Texas called Middlelands.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike Friday after unanimously rejecting calls for a 15 percent pay cut, but management contends those cuts and others are necessary because the orchestra is more than $20 million in debt.