Universal Music Group sued the start-up distributor Believe for $500 million on Monday, alleging the rival firm has engaged in “rampant piracy” of its most famous artists. In a complaint filed in ...

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Mary Lou Metzger and her husband, Richard Maloof host this memorable episode. "We Believe in Music" is the perfect theme for hosts Mary Lou Metzger and her husband, Richard Maloof, a longtime member ...

The smallest decisions can alter music history forever. Cher’s hit “Believe” includes a vocal effect that revolutionized the industry. Cher discussed the sound of the song and what she was thinking ...

Universal Music Group, the largest major-label conglomerate in existence, has joined forces with ABKCO Music & Records and Concord Music Group to file a huge copyright-infringement lawsuit against ...

Papa Roach have released "Dying to Believe," another pulsing new song off their upcoming 2022 album. On this newest single, the veteran rockers reflect on the current state of society and its ...

The pop-up exhibit, officially open to the public on Aug. 2, features several artists signed to the K-Pop giant including BTS, Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together, Le Sserafim, Enhypen, TWS and more. By ...

The song is simple and to the point. Its straightforward verses and bare-bones arrangement leave little but the truth in a trail of twanging strings, a swaying bass line, and a steadily trotting drum ...

In the spring of 1999, this recent Pacific Northwest transplant was craving the energy of a 24-hour city like Chicago, where I grew up. Thus, when a work trip took me to New York, I was overjoyed. I ...

Twenty-five years ago, Alan Jackson and George Strait lamented the rise of pop-country, but a broader look at the top songs of 2000 reveal that they were absolutely ... "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by ...

This Juneteenth, I’m finding it hard to celebrate. It's hard to reflect on freedom in this deafening swell of discord, this crescendo of threats to our most basic human and civil rights. It's hard to ...