Music

To the average music fan, Quincy Jones, who died Monday at age 91, leaves behind a legacy as one of contemporary music’s greatest record producers, a titanic figure behind some of the most important records of all time. But to many in the music industry, his legacy towers even bigger …

Ed Sheeran came out to Music Business Worldwide‘s Music Business U.K. Awards in London on Tuesday night, giving a speech to a crowd of industry power players to honor WMG’s outgoing record executive Max Lousada, while imploring record labels to champion art and artist development instead of following analytics and …

Taylor Swift celebrated the culmination of the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour by encouraging fans to remember to vote on Election Day. “Couldn’t have asked for a more magical way to end our US shows on The Eras Tour,” the singer wrote on Instagram. “Just had the time of …

Guitarist Steve Lukather is best known for his nearly five-decade stint in Toto. But years before “Africa” and “Rosanna” hit the airwaves, he was a session guitarist that backed everyone from Boz Scaggs and Diana Ross to Alice Cooper, Jimmy Cliff, Jackson Browne, and Peter Criss. He kept up a …

Beyoncé has finally released a music video from Cowboy Carter — well, kind of. On Election Day Tuesday, the singer released a new visual titled “Beywatch” and set to an edit of the Cowboy Carter track “Bodyguard.” In the video, Beyoncé, dressed in a series of Pamela Anderson‘s most iconic …

All it takes is one guitar note piercing through a pitch-black arena — one note dramatically reaching heavenward, as if it’s waking up — to recognize the guitarist. As soon as David Gilmour struck the introductory high E of “5 A.M.,” with only a soft red light and some even …

Tyka Nelson, Prince’s sister, as well as a musician in her own right, died Monday, Nov. 4, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune. She was 64. Nelson’s son, President Nelson, confirmed her death but did not provide a cause. Nelson was Prince’s only full sibling, born two years after her …

Rosé opened up about how reading online hate about her inspired a new song on her upcoming debut solo album, Rosie. In a new interview with Paper, Rosé admitted that she has a habit of doom-scrolling at night and reading what others say about her, both good and bad. The …

The most mysterious song on the internet, which thousands of devoted sleuths have been trying to identify since 2007, finally has a name. The New Wave track, originally recorded off the radio in Germany in the early Eighties, is believed to be called “Subways of Your Mind” by the band …

Jamie Foxx has joined the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Toto’s Steve Lukather, and others who have paid tribute to the “peerless music producer” Quincy Jones in the wake of his death at the age of 91. In his own post, Foxx thanked the late producer for his indelible …