During the Cold War, the Soviet government banned jazz, rock 'n' roll and other music. A group of bootleggers came up with an unusual way to distribute the music they loved.  

From the album Images Du Futur (2013). Instant obsession when I discovered this gem half an hour ago. I love the internet.

The rapper admitted he went "off script" to call out streaming services.

Musicians are facing a postcode lottery of noise complaints, industry leaders have warned, after a member of the classical chart-topping choir Mediaeval Baebes was handed a noise abatement notice for playing music in her flat. Fiona Fey was told she had created “excessive noise from the playing of musical instruments that is audible and detectable from your property” and that she must cease making any more “noise from the property in the form of playing loud music”.

The brash media unit, which once defined music culture with correspondents like Kurt Loder, SuChin Pak, Tabitha Soren and Gideon Yago, is officially no more.

Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson ... In the era of #MeToo what to do with the great art of scary monsters and super creeps?

Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgera…

One of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto’s Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and penned hundreds of songs, including “Carefree Highway," “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

British singer, 32, accused of violating copyright from 1973 soul classic Let’s Get It On in 2014 hit Thinking Out Loud

Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies following congestive heart failure

The future is here, the ghostwriters are on the storm, and fake Drake is all too real. Earlier this month, a gloomy hip-hop track created with the help of artificial intelligence to jarringly replicate the voices of Canadian superstars Drake and the Weeknd went viral. Heart on My Sleeve was posted online by an anonymous producer using the name Ghostwriter who appears only as a person with a sheet thrown over their head.

The song, called Heart on My Sleeve, has been removed from TikTok, Spotify and YouTube for ‘infringing content created with generative AI’

Almost a full year after the ABBA Voyage spectacle landed in London, the ABBA craze is stronger than ever.

Are you in for some futuristic space jazz & funk?

From the album Ram It Down (1988). Pretty much the entire street knows this is a great song.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol" (stylized on the single cover as "PRİSENCÓLİNENSİNÁİNCIÚSOL") is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent.

On guitarist Adrian Belew’s Facebook page, he shared this hysterical story about a surly encounter between David Bowie and Frank Zappa: In 1978 I did my first tour of Europe as “stunt

In a world of online bots and Ticketmaster lawsuits, singer/songwriter Maggie Rogers is resorting to the old-school way of selling concert tickets. The 28-year-old “Light On” singer announced Thursday on social media that tickets to her upcoming “Summer of ’23 Tour” would be sold at various box offices across the country on Friday — leaving some fans scrambling to make arrangements to get to them.

The songstress and actor had been dating since 2016.