Nile Rodgers becomes first voice-interactive digital portrait

UK media start-up Forever launches world’s first voice-interactive digital portrait, featuring music legend Nile Rodgers. Forever has unveiled In the Room with Nile Rodgers, making history as the world’s first voice-interactive portrait. Developed in association with Universal Music UK and…

BJ Thomas diagnosed with stage four lung cancer

Thomas is hopeful for a full recovery GRAMMY, CMA, and Dove award-winning pop, country, and gospel singer B.J. Thomas has revealed that his doctors have diagnosed him as having Stage 4 lung cancer. Thomas is receiving treatment in a local…

CRS Finale: Get to know these 12 artists

CRS Finale: Get to know these 12 artists

Last month during Country Radio Seminar (CRS), Matt Bailey and I conducted more than a dozen interviews as social media extras for The Music Universe Podcast. We thought our interview coverage was done at that point. Well, a month later,…

Lionel Richie & Snoop Dogg among exclusive NFT content

Crypto.com launching new platform Crypto.com has announced Crypto.com/NFT, a platform launching this Friday, March 26th dedicated to delivering unique content from popular artists, musicians, athletes, and sports. Poised to be the world’s largest and most user-friendly NFT platform, the site…

mySongbird partners with UMG

mySongbird partners with UMG

mySongbird acquires rights for hundreds of concerts and music documentaries mySongbird, a unique streaming platform for live and classic concert performances and music documentaries, has announced its contract with multi-faceted content studio, Mercury Studios — established in 2020 by Universal…

Royal Blood headlining Roblox’s 2021 Bloxy Awards

Royal Blood headlining Roblox’s 2021 Bloxy Awards

The UK rock band will appear as avatars for a premiere performance Roblox has announced that the British rock duo, Royal Blood, will perform a three-song virtual concert during the 2021 Bloxy Awards. The Bloxy Awards, Roblox’s celebration of the…

Thomas Rhett scores 17th No 1

Single continues Rhett’s record with 11 consecutive chart toppers Reigning ACM “Entertainer of the Year” and 4x current nominee Thomas Rhett has earned his 17th No. 1 single with “What’s Your Country Song” as the song summits Billboard’s Hot Country…

LiveXLive expands Music Lives 2021

LiveXLive expands Music Lives 2021

More than 20 new artists added for 72 hour non-stop event LiveXLive Media has announced that the fan favorite global streaming music festival Music Lives will expand to over 72 hours of non-stop music featuring more than 120 artists. Music…

Linda Ronstadt sells catalog to Irving Azoff

Ronstadt is latest artist to sell catalog Linda Ronstadt has sold her recorded music assets to Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group. Iconic will team with Ronstadt, her longtime manager John Boyland and personal assistant Janet Stark to preserve her legacy…

Kenny Chesney moves tour to 2022

Trek postponed for second year With so much progress and so many positive developments, the world is moving back towards normal. For Kenny Chesney, who postponed his 2020 Chillaxification Tour, that has meant an incredible adjustment to the way he…

Morgan Wallen spends 10th consecutive week at No 1

Morgan Wallen spends 10th consecutive week at No 1

Dangerous continues to break records Morgan Wallen’s sophomore effort Dangerous: The Double Album tops the Billboard Top 200 chart for the tenth consecutive week, marking a new feat for the country superstar. According to Billboard, Dangerous earned 69k equivalent album units in…

Lauren Alaina tests positive for COVID-19

Singer cancels planned acoustic performance Lauren Alaina has been forced to cancel an appearance Saturday night due to contracting COVID-19. The country singer was scheduled to appear at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY for an acoustic performance with Jon Pardi,…

Nationwide venues honoring Aretha Franklin

Franklin will be honored via marquees across 20 iconic music venues nationwide National Geographic has teamed with Live Natoin for a nationwide marquee takeover to honor the legacy of the “Queen of Soul,” Aretha Franklin. Twenty marquees are live through…

Cumulus Media quietly reinstating Morgan Wallen

Cumulus Media quietly reinstating Morgan Wallen

Wallen has been blacklisted for more than six weeks At least two Cumulus Media radio stations have begun reinstating Morgan Wallen’s music to their playlists, six weeks after being blacklisted by the industry after video surfaced of him using a…

Tom Jones releases ‘One More Cup of Coffee’

Song appears on forthcoming Surrounded By Time Tom Jones has released a new single “One More Cup Of Coffee” from his forthcoming album Surrounded By Time. Having already shown glimpses of what’s to come with previous singles “Talking Reality Television…

Alex Lahey releases Faith Hill Amazon Original Cover

“This Kiss” is available now only on Amazon Music Australian alt-rock singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alex Lahey released an Amazon Original cover of Faith Hill’s “This Kiss,” as part of Amazon Music’s programming for Women’s History Month. The track is available…

The Who releases ‘The Sell Out Jingles’ EP

The Who releases ‘The Sell Out Jingles’ EP

Digital EP features previously unheard versions taken from forthcoming Super Deluxe box The Who have shared a three song digital EP of previously unheard jingles from its forthcoming The Who Sell Out: Super Deluxe Edition. This EP follows Pete Townshend’s previously unreleased…

Greta Van Fleet release ‘Broken Bells’

Track is from highly anticipated sophomore album GRAMMY Award-winning four-piece Greta Van Fleet are debuting their latest track “Broken Bells,” an anthem intended to inspire. “’Broken Bells’ is what the fetter of society does to impact a pure and innocent…

Gary LeVox releases debut solo Christian track

LeVox also releases moving video performance Gary LeVox, most well-known and beloved as lead singer of Rascal Flatts, released a stirring new Christian solo track, “The Distance” via Big Machine Records. “The Distance” is an epic expression of the power…

Machine Gun Kelly & Corpse Husband release ‘Daywalker’ video

Video follows single release After previously releasing their long-awaited collaboration “Daywalker!” Ohio superstar Machine Gun Kelly and popular YouTube personality Corpse Husband unleash the fiery visual for their smoldering collaboration. Directed by Machine Gun Kelly & Sam Cahill, “Daywalker” exudes…

Texas Rangers announce Charley Pride Fellowship Program

Rozene Pride joined by Garth Brooks, Larry Gatlin and Neal McCoy for special announcement The Texas Rangers have announced the creation of the Charley Pride Fellowship Program, offering rising college Juniors and Seniors a ten-week internship opportunity with the team’s…

Steve Aoki teams with Kiiara & Wiz Khalifa for ‘Used To Be’

Steve Aoki teams with Kiiara & Wiz Khalifa for ‘Used To Be’

Song available digitally now 2x GRAMMY-nominated artist/DJ/producer and EDM luminary Steve Aoki teams up with multi-platinum selling pop superstar Kiiara for their latest single “Used To Be,” featuring the multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa.…

Tina Turner profiled by Morrison Hotel Gallery

One Woman Show opens March 25th A gestalt of full-throttle showmanship, gravity-defying aestheticism and rattling vocals which connote a kind of passion that exceeds the limitations of mortal instrument, Tina Turner takes center stage with Morrison Hotel Gallery’s latest online…

Paul McCartney announces second children’s picture book

Grandude’s Green Submarine available Sept 2021 Random House Children’s Books in the US and Penguin Random House Children’s UK are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Grandude’s Green Submarine, the picture book sequel to Hey Grandude! written by one…

Yungblud releases David Bowie cover

“Life on Mars? (Live at A Bowie Celebration 2021)” available now Yungblud has released a cover of the classic David Bowie track “Life on Mars? (Live at A Bowie Celebration 2021)” via Locomotion/Interscope Records. On January 9th, the British singer/songwriter…

Nick Jonas releases ‘This is Heaven’ video

Singer is joined by London Community Gospel Choir GRAMMY and Golden Globe nominated artist and actor Nick Jonas has unveiled the official music video for, “This Is Heaven.” The track is off of his recently released album, Spaceman Deluxe, that was…

Bonnaroo announces Concerts on the Farm series

Bonnaroo announces Concerts on the Farm series

Limited series features four artists over two weekends Bonnaroo has announced a limited socially distant concert series, Concerts On The Farm, that will keep fans entertained until the flagship festival returns in September in Manchester, TN. The event kicks off…