With about 100 million tracks available and over 600 million subscribers, helping listeners find the music they will love has become a navigational challenge for Spotify. It’s the promise of personalization and meaningful recommendations that will give the vast catalog more meaning, and that is central to Spotify’s mission. The streaming audio giant’s suite of … Read more
TALLINN, Estonia — Belarusian authorities on Friday convicted a famous dissident rock band, designating the band and its three members as extremist and sentencing them to two years of correctional labor. It was the latest in a yearslong crackdown on dissent that has engulfed this country of 9.5 million people. Nizkiz band members — Alyaksandr … Read more
More than a year on from his major surgery for mouth cancer, singer John Farnham is taking the next step in an already legendary career. The 74-year-old is set to release his memoir, called The Voice Inside, which will detail his rise to fame but also his recent health scare. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Robbie … Read more
Music streaming service Spotify has announced an increase in its subscription prices. It comes after the service dealt with backlash earlier this year over its audiobooks service, and less than a year since the last subscription price rise. Beginning in May, users with see their plans increase from $1 to $3 each month — or … Read more
A new music festival set to tour Australia’s east coast later this month has been slammed by customers after it announced a drastically reduced line-up of artists less than two weeks before its first show. The reduced line-up comes two weeks after the organisers of Pandemonium Rocks — a new rock festival featuring acts including … Read more
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter. The songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing “different scenes in a movie.” “I’ve been writing songs now for 15 years, and so I think I’ve just come into … Read more
This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe. Let’s talk about rising pop star JoJo Siwa and the “gay pop” genre she’s apparently looking to reinvent. In a recent Billboard interview, the “Dance Moms” alum shared that when she first signed a deal with Columbia … Read more
K-Pop fans are in mourning over the news that South Korean star Park Bo Ram has died at the age of 30. Her death is being investigated after the singer, who has been a prominent figure on the K-Pop scene for a decade, was found unconscious at a gathering with friends. Her agency, Xanadu Entertainment, … Read more
Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok following an ongoing dispute with her music distributor Universal Music Group over royalties. The return of her songs on the popular social media platform comes as she is set to release her latest and much-anticipated album, The Tortured Poets Department, next week. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Travis Kelce … Read more
“When you’re an artist, there’s no HR Department,” Maggie Rogers jokingly says. “There’s no normal path. It’s all sort of self determined.” She’s wearing an earth-toned greenish sweater, and her shaggy hair is shoulder-length, her smile wide. Rogers laughs often. In a February Instagram post, Rogers elaborated on the images and ideas she was conjuring … Read more
