Recording Academy Chief Harvey Mason Jr. and Aloe Blacc to Keynote Mondo.NYC Virtual Conference

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBonnaroo has unveiled details for “Virtual Roo-Ality,” a free three-night live broadcast airing exclusively via YouTube. The livestreaming event will celebrate the annual festival with a range of programming, spanning new live performances, original content, and archival sets captured at Bonnaroo’s home at Great Stage Park in Manchester, TN.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGrammy-winning DJ-producer Tiesto has signed a worldwide deal with Atlantic and Big Beat Records and will drop a new single called (fittingly enough) “The Business” next Friday (Sept. 25) — hear a preview of the song below.

Slowthai has shared new single ‘feel away’, a collaboration with James Blake and Mount Kimbie – watch the video below.The track was teased yesterday (September 14) alongside an emotional tribute to the Northampton rapper’s younger brother, Michael John.“today is the anniversary of my baby brother passing,” Slowthai said in a social media post.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a comparatively slow week leading into the long weekend — which means we only scanned around 100 songs last week instead of the usual 130! — the avalanche of songs is back with a bang.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDespite the COVID-19 pandemic, revenues for recorded music actually increased in the U.S. in the first half of 2020, according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s mid-year report.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBruce Springsteen has dropped a new song and video called “Letter to You,” the first track from his new album of the same name, which is arriving on Oct. 23.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLiz Phair, whose widely influential 1990s albums have been enjoying a revival in recent years, has signed a new deal with the relaunched Chrysalis Records and will release her first album in a decade next year, the company announced Wednesday.Phair’s albums, particularly her 1993 debut “Exile in Guyville” and the follow-up “Whip-Smart,” have influenced two generations of young female singer-songwriters.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUnless you’ve been in the right place in Los Angeles at the right time over the past several years, Fiona Apple performances have been as rare as Bigfoot sightings.

Ferne McCann has stunned in a gorgeous all-black ensemble while out on the town.The 30 year old, who recently shared a glimpse of her incredible garden makeover, was photographed posing in a tiny black halterneck crop top with metallic buttons stitched in to frame the outline.The First Time Mum star teamed the look with a pair of high-waisted satin trousers with a split on either side of her calves, which highlighted both her washboard abs as well as her tanned legs.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs part of a long retrospective era that’s included a documentary, a speaking tour and more, the Beastie Boys will release a 20-song compilation on Oct.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy has announced the launch of its Black Music Collective, which it describes as a group of prominent Black music creators and professionals who share the common goal of amplifying Black voices within the Academy and the music community.The move is part of a wider diversity initiative by the Academy announced earlier this year, which includes the hiring of Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Valeisha Butterfield Jones and a partnership with and $1

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHxouse, the Toronto-based skills incubator launched by The Weeknd, his creative director La Mar Taylor and Influencers PR’s Ahmed Islamil, announced that TD Bank Group has become a founding sponsor of its leadership and entrepreneurial development initiative, Black Hxouse.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in a pandemic, the VMAs found a way to start off their show with a bang: The Weeknd performed his smash single “Blinding Lights” 1,100 feet above New York, from the city’s highest observation deck, Edge at Hudson Yards.Weeknd was in the guise of the busted-nose character he portrays on his latest album, “After Hours,” and the performance began in a way similar to the album’s videos, which depict the character having a surreal and absolutely terrible night in

Megan Thee Stallion is making sure that victims of police brutality are not forgotten. The rapper took a moment during her virtual concert on Saturday night to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives or were seriously injured in incidents involving the police.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorK-pop titans Blackpink are joined by Selena Gomez for a new song and video called “Ice Cream,” the second single from the quartet’s debut album, set for release via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records on October 2.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPublic Enemy, the legendary rap group that helped shape socially conscious hip-hop into what it is today, have returned to Def Jam Recordings, the label that hosted their most iconic recordings.The reunion launches with a remix of the group’s classic 1989 song “Fight the Power (Remix 2020),” which opened the 2020 BET Awards in June featuring Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove. The song, originally featured in Spike Lee’s film “Do the Right Thing,”

Megyn Kelly was slammed on Twitter on Thursday after sharing a Daily Mail article suggesting Jacob Blake had a knife when cops shot him in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

James Blake has shared a new video for his recent single ‘Are You Even Real?’ – watch it below.The track, Blake’s second of the year following recent single ‘You’re Too Precious’, came out last month.The trippy, partly animated new video sees Blake’s face contorted in strange new shapes.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThere have been a lot of virtual festivals in the past six months of lockdown, but the one taking place from Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a fiery Instagram Live session on Thursday night, Megan Thee Stallion claimed that rapper Tory Lanez is indeed the person who shot her in a July 12 incident in Los Angeles. In the early hours of that day, Lanez was arrested for possessing a concealed weapon; Megan and two other people were in the vehicle with him at the time of the arrest, although the shooting took place beforehand.“Yes, this n—a Tory shot me,” she says.