Disco Donnie’s drive-in event No Parking on the Dance Floor Houston featuring Subtronics was shut down before it ever got off his feet — but the reason why has yet to be made public. The live show, also featuring HE$H and Level Up, was set to take place last night at The Showboat Drive-In located in Hockley,
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Taylor Swift‘s “Betty,” one plucky part of what she’s affectionately coined Folklore‘s “Teenage Love Triangle,” ends with a cliffhanger. “If I just showed up at your party, would you have me? Would you want me? Would you tell me to go f— myself, or lead me to the garden?” the song’s protagonist, James, sings throughout
Before “Closer,” The Chainsmokers had “Roses,” sure, but they weren’t the mega superstars they could have been without the release of that epic collaboration with Halsey. “Roses” is sitting pretty with 750m plays on Spotify, but “Closer” has 2.5 billion on YouTube and 1.8 billion on Spotify — the definition of a game-changing hit. The
Today (July 31) is officially the last day of July, but we can’t bid farewell without asking which Latin collaboration released in the past 31 days is the best. In true Billboard fashion, we highlight the team-ups that were featured throughout this month’s First Stream Latin playlists, including 15 collaborative bops by Danna Paola &
Post Malone recently sat in on Joe Rogan’s podcast, during which they discussed a number of topics for nearly four hours, including The Chainsmokers’ Hamptons concert this past weekend. Rogan seemed to initially confused why there was so much outrage over the event, until Post made clear to him that fans got out of their
Alice Ivy has struck a new worldwide publishing deal through a joint venture with Concord Music Publishing and Australian independent publisher Native Tongue. “Publishing is something I’ve taken my time with,” said Ivy of the new arrangement, which is effective immediately. “I wanted to hold off until I’d matured as a songwriter and a producer
Ever see the Pass The Beat challenge that producers were doing on Twitter? Now, one of them has actually been completed and it’s out now. On March 18, rising producer Wev posted a stem on Twitter and tagged multi-instrumentalist Ian Ewing to take it off his hands. From there, “Twitter Telephone” was born. After touching 7
The Belgian organizers are paying artists by their views and overall ticket sales, in what could be a first in the livestreaming world. Did Tomorrowland just discover a new formula for compensating artists on the festival’s imaginary island of Pāpiliōnem? Since the coronavirus pandemic began shuttering much of the world’s live music scene in March,
Earlier today, The Chainsmokers started trending on Twitter (with over 65k tweets near its peak) for their charity show in the Hamptons this past weekend. With tickets available up to $25,000, one could say the charity portion of the event was a success. Unfortunately, videos and photos of the show demonstrate “egregious social distancing violations,”
Menken was born in New York City. Remarkably, the same is true of six other EGOTS. Alan Menken won a Daytime Emmy on June 12, which makes him the 16th EGOT. He won for composing “Waiting in the Wings” from Tangled: The Series: Rapunzel and the Great Tree, with lyrics by Glenn Slater. The song
Regis Philbin, host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Million Dollar Password, and the first season of America’s Got Talent, and Guinness World Record holder for most hours on US television, has died at the age of 88. Regis Philbin has been a host of Live! With Regis… with co-host Kathie Lee from 1988 until 2001 when
Peter Green, the influential blues rock guitarist and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, has died. He was 73. The musician’s death was confirmed by his family members in a statement shared with the BBC. “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep. A further
RL Grime is bound to blow us away with a special broadcast of his live set from Outside Lands. This set from Bay Area’s Outside Lands — which also hosted Flume, Kygo, San Holo, Yaeji and so many more in 2019 — has the potential to blast us back to last year, when festivals were
Taylor Swift surprise released her eighth album folklore overnight along with a lyric video for every damn song on the album (yep, all 16). And it’s not over yet — there’s one more folklore tune that isn’t available on streaming. The song in question, “The Lakes,” will be on physical versions of the folklore album,
NERO dropped their stunning debut album Welcome Reality in 2010 and the year after came Welcome Reality+, which included the now-classic remix of “Promises” from both Nero themselves and Skrillex. Now, nine years later, Slushii is here with a brand new re-remix that is absolutely stunning. Slushii has taken the original remix (an odd phrase, I know)
The Weeknd converts himself into every one of his past and present artist personas in the animated “Snowchild” music video he released Wednesday (July 22). The four-minute video pays homage to his dark past, riddled with alcohol, drugs and women, that originated in the snowy Scarborough division of Toronto, where The Weekend (real name Abel