Jack Welch — who spent two decades as the chairman and CEO of General Electric, including while it was the parent company of NBC — died Monday, his wife announced. Welch was 84. “More than anything else — leader, business icon, management genius — more than those things, although they are all true too — Jack was
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Young Franco and Pell certainly have the “Juice”. The energy these two artists display on the new single is apparent from the first beat. The rhythm and natural flow is unstoppable and once you hit play you’ll be grooving wherever you are. Young Franco has been on a tear lately with a North American prime
Alan Menken — the award-winning composer behind some of Disney’s most beloved songs — is this year’s recipient of the Max Steiner Film Music Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor, bestowed by the City of Vienna and named for Austrian composer Max Steiner (who penned the scores of Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and more), will
As we board our musical excursion through the year of 2020, there is undeniable talk amongst the crowd of a rise in drum and bass in the new decade. DJ’s, producers, and fans are in unison expressing a reignited love for the genre itself, and we at YourEDM could not be more excited about this. This
And you thought all he did was wear giant suits and rock Broadway! David Byrne has conquered Broadway, and in his new promos for this weekend’s Saturday Night Live the Talking Heads legend has jokes too. In a series of spots promoting Saturday’s Leap Day (Feb. 29) episode, the American Utopia star plays the straight man
A-Trak and Armand Van Helden are keeping the vibes coming with another serving of Duck Sauce. The duo returned last month with their feel-good single “Smiley Face,” and now A-Trak promises more on the way. Considering it had been six years since we last heard any Duck Sauce originals, we’ll take all we can get. 🦆 anybody want
Diplo and his Major Lazer crew have been down in Brazil for a while now celebrating Carnival and performing across the country. However, Tuesday as the group was about to perform in São Paulo, a shooting occurred which brought the show to a screeching halt. According to The Sun, a man and a woman were reportedly
David Roback, producer and Mazzy Star co-founder, has died, a rep for the band confirmed to Billboard. He was 61 years old. The California-born Roback played in bands throughout the mid-’80s, including Rain Parade and Opal, before co-founding the seminal West Coast band Mazzy Star alongside Hope Sandoval in 1989. The alt-rock group unveiled their debut album, She Hangs Brightly, in
If there’s one thing that makes for a good remix, we believe it’s the ability to completely transform, and then translate so to speak, an idea put in place by an artist in a new way, without compromising its original intent. With that being said, plusgood hits the nail on the head with his remix
Monsta X makes its Billboard 200 albums chart debut, as the six member South Korean group arrives at No. 5 with All About Luv. The set, which is the act’s first all-English language album, launches with 52,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Feb. 20, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. Of that
We’ve been waiting for this moment and it’s finally here — Disclosure are back! Just a single photo with Disclosure’s signature face visuals is all it took to send EDM Twitter into a frenzy today. The same duo who blessed us with instant classics “Latch,” “You & Me,” “Omen,” “When A Fire Starts To Burn”
It’s been seven years since BTS began their ascent to the top of the music, and their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, ruminates on the past and what it means for the historic act’s present and future. On release day (Feb. 21), the seven members of BTS sat down with Billboard while in New York
At the end of 2019, we reported that Burning Man was suing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) — and now the lawsuit has been officially set in motion, according to Digital Music News. After shelling out $18 million to the BLM since 2015, Burning Man organizers believe they’ve been overcharged in fees for several years. To
Wolfgang Van Halen is one step closer to his long-awaited solo album. The singer and multi-instrumentalist — the 28-year-old son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli who’s a member of Van Halen and former member of Tremonti — has signed an exclusive deal with Explorer1 Music Group for an album he’s in “the final
Back in 2018, Martin Garrix had the immense honor of closing out the Winter Olympics. It’s apparently taken two years for his team to clear the licenses to show fans footage from the event, but we can now finally see behind the scenes of the 2018 Winter Olympics in the latest episode of The Martin
Big Time Adolescence, starring Machine Gun Kelly and Pete Davidson, is set to hit select theaters and Hulu in March, and a new trailer released on Wednesday (Feb. 19) depicts all the film’s coming-of-age glory. The clip features actor Griffin Gluck, who plays a suburban teenager who falls under the wing of his sister’s ex-boyfriend,