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Opry City Stage coming to Times Square in 2017

Country music’s most famous brand is coming to New York City. Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. has unveiled its plans for Opry City Stage, the Grand Ole Opry’s first “home away from home,” a four-level entertainment complex on historic Broadway in Times…

More performers added to AMAs

Dick Clark Productions and ABC have announced several exciting additions to the lineup at the 2016 American Music Awards. Lighting up the AMA stage will be James Bay and Fifth Harmony, as well as special duets from The Chainsmokers and…

Kenny G celebrates 75 million albums sold

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has certified several Kenny G albums Diamond (ten million units sold), multi-platinum, platinum (one million units sold) and gold (500,000 units sold). Kenny, one of the most iconic instrumental musicians of the modern…

SiriusXM announces holiday music channels

SiriusXM has announced its extensive holiday music lineup featuring eight commercial-free channels celebrating the festive season, one to broadcast starting Wednesday, November 2nd. The holiday music channels will offer listeners a variety of traditional holiday songs, classical Christmas carols, country Christmas…

Röyksopp announces ‘Never Ever’ three track bundle

Following the huge success of Röyksopp’s first release outside of the album cycle – the club ready, hit single “Never Ever” featuring Norwegian singer songwriter Susanne Sundfør – the duo release a “Never Ever” three track bundle, which includes a…

Bon Jovi album cover is work of Florida artist

This House is Not For Sale, the 14th studio album from Grammy Award–winning band Bon Jovi, features a cover image by Jerry Uelsmann, a Florida Artists Hall of Fame inductee, University of Florida professor emeritus and author of multiple books,…

Avenged Sevenfold part of VR performance

On the evening of October 27th, multi-platinum rock band, Avenged Sevenfold, will give a global, 3D /360-degree, live-streamed virtual reality performance in partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, Capitol Records and VRLIVE. Fans around…