Music Industry Moves: Judas Priest’s First Two Albums Acquired by Reach Music; Charly Perez Joins Warner Latina

Reba McEntire will take a seat in one of the red chairs as a coach for Season 24 of NBC’s Emmy Award- winning musical competition series “The Voice” airing this fall. The country superstar, multimedia entertainment mogul and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, who served as a mentor in Season 23, will join returning coaches John Legend, Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani.The announcement was made during NBC’s upfront presentation to advertisers on Monday.“The Voice” is a presentation of MGM Television, Warner Bros.

BreAnna Bell After serving as Season 23’s mega mentor on “The Voice,” Reba McEntire is officially returning to Season 24 as a coach. The announcement was confirmed at NBCU’s upfront presentation on Monday. The Country Music Hall of Fame inductee joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Niall Horan and Gwen Stefani. Season 23 returns on Monday, May 15 at 8 p.m. ET/PT with a two-hour semi-final. The top 8 artists will face off live for the first time in front of coaches for their chance at a spot in the finale. Viewers will vote for their favorite artist in real time, and the results will be revealed at the end of the show.

Country music star Reba McEntire, who’s coming off a role as mega mentor on Season 23 of NBC’s The Voice, has been promoted to judge for Season 24, taking over Blake Shelton’s red chair. She joins veteran coach John Legend and returning coaches Hiall Noran and Gwen Stefani. This will be the first season without Shelton, who announced in October 2022 that Season 23 would be his last.

Keke Palmer is speaking out about her experience in the music industry.

Kimberly Perry is having quite a moment. The pregnant singer stepped out on Thursday for the 2023 ACM Awards as she begins a new journey as a solo artist and mother-to-be. «The last couple years have been super transformative for me,» she shared with ET's Rachel Smith.

In Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, the actor lets Davis Guggenheim inside his daily life with Parkinson’s disease. It represents the first time in the documentary space for composer John Powell, who said studying the way Fox moves led him to score the movie like a musical.

Sometimes fear can be just as strong a motivator as love. That was the case for Showtime’s George & Tammy music producer and engineer Rachael Moore.

Once Upon a One More Time, a brand new musical powered by the hits of Britney Spears, is premiering on Broadway this week and we have a first look!

SoundCloud has launched a new product called “Fans” that provides artists with access to deep user data and makes it easy for them to connect with their most loyal listeners. Now available on SoundCloud for Artists, the tool allows artists to view the platform’s data and sort their most engaged listeners based on factors like comments, listening behavior, sharing habits and location — and even directly message individual fans and share previews of upcoming music, info, sell tickets and merch and more. (There’s also an opt-out for those who don’t want Beyonce cluttering up their DMs.) The program had been in beta for around six weeks but is now ramping up to 60,000 artists who are members of its premium Next Pro tier. The company considered it the next logical step in their fan-powered royalties system, under which the company pays out each listener’s subscriber revenue entirely to the rights-holders or the artists they’ve actually listened to, rather than the all-in model used by most streaming services.

London Boy.” Taylor Swift, 33, and her rumored new boyfriend, Matty Healy, 34, were pictured together for the first time over the weekend. The possible romantic pair were photographed arriving at Swift’s condo in Nashville, Tennessee, at 12:30 a.m.

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is rocketing off to a strong start at the international box office. Having debuted on Wednesday in such markets as the UK, France, Germany, Korea, Italy and Japan; and then adding Spain, Australia, Brazil and Mexico among others on Thursday, it has grossed an estimated $35M through yesterday in a total 47 material markets.

New York no-wave pioneers Bush Tetras are back, announcing their first album in 11 years and only their fourth-ever studio LP over the course of more than four decades and a slew of lineup changes. They Live in My Head is due out July 28 via Wharf Cat Records, produced by Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley (now BT’s drummer as well) and featuring bass the group’s newest member: Rocky O’Riordan of The Pogues, The Radiators, and Elvis Costello & The Attractions.

Jessie Ware revealed some very exciting news on last night's episode of The Record Club. 

Elephant Kind made a huge leap: uprooting from their home country of Indonesia to move to London for their music. It’s a move that’s the subject of their new documentary, From Indo to England, which NME is hosting exclusively here along with a chat about their new EP ‘Superblue’ and more.

David Guetta channeled Eminem on a song through artificial intelligence. The volume hit 11 in April, when “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song with AI-generated vocals by a fake Drake and a fake Weeknd, racked up millions of streams before being removed by streaming services, and louder still when electronic artist Grimes not only promised a 50-50 split with anyone who wants to use her AI voice on a song, she launched software called Elf.Tech to help them do it. Artificial intelligence by way of machine learning is the latest existential threat to the music business, and unlike the frequently cited precedent of Napster-era piracy, which opened the door to illegal downloads, the industry has mobilized quickly to respond, with takedown orders, petitions, op-eds and the Human Artistry Campaign, an initiative established to set fair practices in AI, not just in music but in other arts and even sports; Human Artistry’s dozens of members range from the Recording Academy to the Graphic Artists Guild.

The Hives have announced their first new album in over a decade, ‘The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons’, and shared lead single ‘Bogus Operandi’ — check it out below.The Swedish rock band will release ‘The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons’ on August 11, 2023, via Fuga — you can pre-order the album here.The announcement arrives with the release of opening track ‘Bogus Operandi’, complete with a horror music video directed by Aube Perrie (Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion).Listen to the new track below.“There’s no maturity or anything like that bullshit, because who the fuck wants mature rock’n’roll?,” frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist said of the new album in a press statement.“That’s always where people go wrong, I feel. ‘It’s like rock’n’roll but adult,’ nobody wants that! That’s literally taking the good shit out of it.

Thania Garcia UMe, the catalog division of Universal Music Group, has promoted Tim Plumley to vice president of media and artist relations. He is based in the company’s Santa Monica headquarters and reports to the executive VP of media and artist relations, Sujata Murthy. “Tim is a key member of my communications team, where he continues to develop innovative new ways to promote our artists and their projects across a wide range of media outlets,” Murthy said. “Tim not only has the trust and respect of our executives and members of the press, but crucially he is viewed as a true partner by our artists and their management teams.” His roster at Ume includes the Band/Robbie Robertson, the Beach Boys, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, George Harrison, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Louis Armstrong, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones and others.

EXCLUSIVE: Zoey Deutch is set to co-star in the Warner Bros. and Clint Eastwood pic Juror #2 starring Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette. Jonathan Abrams penned the script. Adam Goodman, Matt Skiena, Tim Moore and Jessica Meier will produce.

Alex Swhear Matt Berninger felt paralyzed. The 52-year-old frontman for the National, one of the most enduring and influential indie rock bands of the 21st century, was battling a devastating bout of depression and writer’s block. “I didn’t want to write, didn’t want to do anything,” Berninger says over a Zoom call. “But the longer I didn’t [write], the harder it was to connect back to it… I hated everything I’d written; I hated the idea of trying to finish that thought.” As his problems persisted, they fueled a cycle of self-loathing that called into question Berninger’s entire persona. “I also had the sense of, have I turned myself into this misanthropic cliché that our music projects sometimes? I was a little self-disgusted.”

Conor Maynard has announced that he will release his first album of original songs for more than a decade in June. Titled ‘+11 Hours’, the record is the follow-up to his 2012 debut ‘Contrast’.Out now is new single ‘Storage’, of which he says: “’Storage’ is about having the capacity to contain various, irrelevant but ultimately incredible, personal and beautiful memories when you’re in a relationship”.“Once that ends, your brain holds all of the information and fixates on those tiny little things that didn’t really make a difference at the time, but now all they do is consume your so-called ‘storage’ of your brain”, he goes on.