Inside the pain, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph of motherhood in music, a relentlessly male industry that discourages time off and asks female artists to tour while 38 weeks pregnant
Artists and showrunners are adopting vaccine requirements amid a surge in cases from Covid’s Delta variant, but live music's 2021 return looks shaky regardless: "It’s been in the back of everybody’s mind watching the numbers"
D minor plays on our rawest emotion — but in contemporary music, even the most somber of artists tend to avoid it
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The German capital has been hosting thumping raves to incentivize young people, whose infection rates are higher than average, to get their Covid-19 jabs
Celebrity snaps used to result from hostile stalking. Now, thanks to Instagram and a pandemic, Hollywood’s paparazzi industry is flourishing off pre-planned “candids” organized by stars themselves
The music-streaming service didn't delight investors with its latest quarterly financial results — but still has a chance to return to its roots of innovation and originality before it's too late
The round-the-clock livestream competition Song House Live — basically the twisted love child of The Real World and Songland — will offer a Capitol Records label contract to one winner
The wild boom and bust of art NFTs made many onlookers wary of blockchain-based technology — but new developments in gaming, ticketing, and music royalties reveal NFTs' true power
Platforms of the so-called "passion economy" tell us everyone can make bank. The reality of this scam is nowhere more evident than in the numbers out of the music industry
In the post-quarantine rush back to concerts and live music, venue calendars are filling up with superstars and baby bands are falling to the wayside: "It’s a lot of chasing dead ends"
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