Sam Smith, Kanye West, the Who and Coldplay top the lineup for the 2015 iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas, set for Sept. 18 and 19 at the MGM Grand. This year’s event, promoting iHeartRadio’s nationwide network of broadcast radio stations, also will feature brief performances by Demi Lovato, David Guetta, Kenny Chesney, the Weeknd, Tove […]
Get ready: Miley Cyrus is returning to the VMAs, and not just as a performer this time. The pop star is set to host MTV’s Video Music Awards, airing next month. Cyrus announced the news Monday with a playful tweet, joking that MTV won’t let her perform, so she’s taking on a different role. […]
Late-90s boy band fans have always fantasized about the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync uniting as one shining entity. Now Rolling Stone reports that dream will become a reality in the form of low-budget “futuristic horror movie” movie Dead 7 written by and starring youngest Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, appearing alongside Howie Dorough, A.J. McLean and Joey […]
Spotify will be providing its users personalized playlists on a regular basis, to try and combat the human-curated playlists offered by Apple Music and Google Play Music All Access. Discover Weekly aims to create a highly customized “mixtape” for each subscriber, based on the user’s previous listening habits combined with songs listened to by other […]
Apple’s content and media operations are once again under scrutiny by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which is studying claims that iOS App Store policy is illegally stifling competition in the music streaming market, a report said Friday. Citing three industry sources, Reuters reports government officials are looking at the effect Apple’s usual 30 percent […]
Microsoft has revealed details about the music service for Windows 10, which is now called Groove Music. Groove will be available across XBox and Windows devices, including PCs, tablets, and smartphones. The $10 monthly fee buys ad-free access to 40 million tracks, which can be streamed across platforms. People will also be able to […]
The battle for musicians to receive payment for their music from streaming services has resulted in an unusual move by one artist. Prince has started to request that all streaming services pulls his back catalog of tracks from their collections, with Spotify being one of the first to remove the singer’s music, though according to […]
The Weinstein Company has just released a new TV spot for their upcoming boxing redemption drama Southpaw. This one features Eminem’s new single, “Phenomenal.” Check it out in the player below! From director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer), Southpaw stars Academy Award-nominated Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain), Southpaw tells the story of Billy “The […]
Pop star Taylor Swift has relented in her mini-dispute with Apple over licensing fees (which will now be paid during the three-month free trial of the subscription Apple Music service) and is offering her hit album 1989 for streaming for the first time, in an exclusive for the forthcoming service, which launches June 30. In […]
Entertainment One Features (eOne) has announced that Open Road Films has acquired the US rights to David Brent’s upcoming Life on the Road. Directed, written by and starring Ricky Gervais, Life on the Road sees a documentary crew catching up with Brent – former star of hit series “The Office” and now working as a […]