Dance Music Pioneer Kevin Saunderson: The Scene Is Still Failing Black Artists

COVID-19 has dealt catastrophic blows to the live industry, and especially the live electronic events realm, as shows and festivals are primary economic and cultural drivers of the scene. But a group of New York event promoters are going against all odds for an open-air music retreat taking place this weekend.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNew York City began work Thursday on a prominent, yellow-lettered “Black Lives Matter” mural on the street in front of Trump Tower.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, long a critic of Donald Trump’s presidency and the drain of his Manhattan headquarters on city’s resources, has backed the mural as a necessary show of solidarity with the movement. Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice have swept across the U.S.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Collaborating with a composer who is iconic was something else,” marvels Paul Leonard-Morgan of working with Phillip Glass on Amazon’s “Tales From the Loop.” The two composers tinkered around with musical ideas while Leonard-Morgan visited Glass in New York and “it was just an organic place from there.”The music for the series set in Mercer, Ohio, where residents live above “the loop” (which when unlocked, explores the secrets of the universe), soundtracks the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWarner Music Group announced today that industry leader Eric Wong is joining the company as President & Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Warner Recorded Music, effective August 17.

Mike Tyson says that he was intoxicated for most of his time filming on the set of The Hangover. New York Post reported on comments from the 54-year-old heavyweight in which he described his appearence as a “pig” during the movie.

After a two-week poll circulated asking Billboard readers to vote for the best dad in Latin music, fans crown Richard Camacho of the Latin pop group CNCO.

Muzz may well be one of the most unassuming supergroups in the world. For a start, this is not a group of musicians coming together, Avengers-style, to combine their individual powers.

Couples who TikTok together stick together. Alex Rodriguez recreated Jennifer Lopez’s dance for a TikTok video, and it was iconic. The former New York Yankees player took to his Instagram on Tuesday, June 30, to try his fiancé’s #WorldofDance TikTok challenge, which incorporates several moves to the tune of Lopez’s 2012 song “Dance Again.”

The upcoming 2020 MTV Video Music Awards will be held with “limited or no audience”, according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Many awards shows have been postponed or cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic this year, but on Monday, Cuomo announced the annual music prizegiving will go ahead on 30 August with few spectators and in accordance with social distancing safety protocols.

(Reuters) - The MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show will take place in New York at the end of August, MTV and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, marking the first major awards show since the coronavirus pandemic that will occur in a physical venue.MTV and Cuomo said the Aug.

Tekashi 6ix9ine is in the headlines almost every day. In case you’ve never heard his name, Daniel Hernandez, also known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, is a New York rapper who created a reputation as a social media troll due to his attention-grabbing behavior on Instagram.

6ix9ine just went to No. 1 with Nicki Minaj on "Trollz," but there's already another new music release in the works.

NEW YORK -- “The Big Bang Theory” actor Mayim Bialik is teaming with DC Entertainment on a project that joins superhero power to the power of science. DC Entertainment announced Thursday that Bialik will collaborate with popular comic writers and illustrators on a story collection that features Batman, Superman, the Flash and others in search of such mysteries such as why polar ice melts and what can be found at the bottom of the sea.

Prince Harry revealed his love of rugby in a new Instagram video.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefChris Evans has a video on his phone of the first day he met Paul Rudd. It was on the set of the 2016 movie “Avengers: Civil War.” Evans was reprising his role as Captain America in the Marvel blockbuster; for Rudd, it was his introduction to audience as Ant-Man (also known as Scott Lang).That day, as Rudd was trying to acclimate to a Marvel movie set, Evans had an unusual request.

“Gotta have house music all night long"Melding the strut of disco with an electronic pulse, house music took its name from a short-lived Chicago nightclub called the Warehouse. Opened in 1977, the three storey venue booked Frankie Knuckles – a disco DJ from New York – as its main resident, and the Warehouse became a home for many of the marginalised people who first adopted disco a decade earlier.

 Alex Rodriguez  may have embarrassed his daughters but that’s the small price to pay for celebration. The former New York Yankee shared a hilarious video on his Instagram, in celebration of the return of the MLB.

Miranda Lambert, 36, didn’t give her ex-husband Blake Shelton, 44, a shout-out for his birthday on June 18. But she did put her new husband, Brendan McLoughlin, on her Instagram page that very same day. The country music star shared a snapshot taken during their date at an ice cream truck the day prior, in which Brendan flexed his biceps while rocking a Baywatch tank top.