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1. When it Comes to Music Festivals, Bigger is Not Always Better

   Do you love experiencing live music but the popular music festivals in America are getting too big and becoming more about fashion than music? Well, there is a growing number of avid music fans who refuse to go near mega-festivals like Chicago’s Lollapalooza, Indio’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and San Francisco’s Outside Lands. […]

2. Hayley Williams Goes Global With Latest Solo Tour

   Paramore's Hayley Williams is taking her increasingly ambitious solo era global.

3. No Doubt Dusts Off Rarities At Sphere Debut

   No Doubt dipped into its back catalog for a host of rarities last night (May 6) during...

4. New York Exhibit Offers ‘Insight’ Into Ian Curtis

   A new exhibition honoring Ian Curtis is set to bring the late Joy Division singer’s inner world into sharper focus this summer in New York.

5. MUNA Makes Anxiety Sound Euphoric On New LP

   Produced by band multi-instrumentalist Naomi McPherson, it's MUNA’s most cohesive, streamlined release yet.

6. Big Freedia Reveals Collaborative EP With SOPHIE

   More than five years after SOPHIE’s death sent shockwaves through the music world, a previously unreleased collaboration with Big Freedia is finally set to emerge from the vault.

7. After a $4.15B PrizePicks Exit, Adam Wexler Returns to Put Music Rankings in Fans’ Hands

   Adam Wexler is back where he started. Fifteen years after walking away from GoRankem, the fan-powered music discovery platform he built as a senior at the University of Georgia, the entrepreneur is once again running a music company based in Athens. This time it’s a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The seed money is his own. And his […]

8. Beats+Bytes

   In order to stay on the pulse of culture, you have to stay active in it. That means tracking trends, reading the trades religiously, engaging in real industry conversations, thinking critically at every turn, and generally being outside. The key is to balance understanding the macro with reading the room. May brings flowers from the […]

9. BIG IN JAPAN

   When DJ Jeff Mills’ Live at The Liquid Room, recorded in Tokyo in 1995, got its major release in winter, on Axis LPs and Apple Music, it was as if techno’s ten commandments had dropped from the sky — the electronic music version of every bootlegged Grateful Dead tape squeezed into one sweaty 67-minute mix.  […]

10. Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert Duet In Texas

    Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert officially buried their decade-plus-old beef last night (May 5) at the former's show in...