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Lil Durk has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges related to an alleged murder-for-hire plot, Rolling Stone reports. He is tentatively due to stand trial, in California, on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Durk, who is in federal custody, in Los Angeles, has also delayed the release of his new album, Deep Thoughts, which had […]
If you watched Monday Night RAW on November 11, you might’ve noticed that Damian Priest‘s entrance song “Rise Of The Night” sounded a little heavier. It’s because Kerry King made it that way. The original was written by WWE music production company def rebel, and it was still pretty damn heavy – but y’know, King […]
Is there a better way to ring in the new year than an open-air techno and house party? Not if you ask the organizers of Fresh Start, who are once again living up to their name in 2024. In a ritual as reliable as fog rolling over the Bay, Fresh Start is once again poised to […]
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs. Add another to the music industry’s copyright lawsuits against […]
TikTok has partnered with K-Pop superstar Jin on a new multimedia campaign in support of his first solo album, Happy, released today, November (15). The partnership marks the latest artist tie-up for the platform following Coldplay’s interactive in-app experience last month. Coldplay’s partnership with TikTok arrived five months after the platform launched an in-app experience for […]
Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur also contributes to the new recording of the 1970 song Source link
Ty Segall’s got another new band: Freckle, a duo with Color Green guitarist and singer Corey Madden. Freckle will release their self-titled debut on January 31 via Segall’s Drag City imprint, God? Below, listen to Freckle’s first single, “Taraval.” Segall, who released the solo album Three Bells earlier this year, has been in a lot […]
Shabaka has enlisted rapper billy woods for a new song called “Timepieces.” It serves as the opening song on the jazz musician’s Possession EP, which features further contributions from woods’ Armand Hammer bandmate, Elucid, Esperanza Spalding, South African jazz musician Nduduzo Makhathini, Brandee Younger, Carlos Niño, and Jason Moran. Listen to “Timepieces” below. The Possession […]
Universal Music Japan (UMJ) has appointed widely respected industry and A&R executive Shintaro Aki as Managing Director, EMI Records Japan, effective immediately. He will be based in Tokyo and will report to Naoshi Fujikura, President and CEO of Universal Music Japan. Aki joins UMJ from Warner Music Japan, where he most recently served as Senior […]
Machine Head is now streaming their star-studded new single “These Scars Won’t Define Us” featuring the immense talents of Lacuna Coil, In Flames, and Unearth. Machine Head only commented that the single features all four bands “adding vocals for a Wu Tang Clan-level thrash collaboration,” and is on their currently-unannounced new album due out in […]