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KISS frontman Gene Simmons took aim at unvaccinated people during a recent interview, referring to them as “the enemy.”

An Arizona man accused of supplying the dealer who sold Mac Miller the drugs that killed the rapper has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Van Morrison is being sued for libel by Northern Ireland’s Health Minister after the singer called him “dangerous” for his lockdown policies.

Struck with grief, tens of thousands of fans gathered Saturday to pay tribute to Marília Mendonça, one of Brazil’s most popular singers who was killed a day earlier in an airplane crash at age 26.

Writer Paul Bois breaks down the greatest horror film scores of all time, from Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” to Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”

“Let’s Go, Brandon” has transformed from a jocular meme into a ubiquitous subject for protest songs about President Joe Biden, with the latest rap adaption of the chant from rapper Forgiato Blow going viral to the tune of nearly 1 million YouTube views.

German composers Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are among 45 historical figures whose names could be removed from city streets in Munich due to their political beliefs.

Celebrity music producer and Joe Biden supporter Diplo — whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz — could face charges over sexual misconduct allegations made against him last year.

Hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa has been accused of sexually abusing and trafficking a 12-year-old boy starting in 1991.

Rapper Drake is facing backlash for a sample credited to R&B singer R. Kelly — who is currently on trial for allegations of racketeering, sex trafficking, and child pornography — on his new song, “TSU.”

Rapper Kanye West has released his 10th studio album, Donda, after several delays and high-profile listening parties to promote it.

Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84.

A rock band canceled an Iowa concert because of the state’s vaccine passport ban.

The superstar-laden “Homecoming Concert” in New York City’s Central Park was canceled because of dangerous weather as Hurricane Henri approached the Northeast on Saturday.

It’s no longer “raining men” as The Weather Girls’ hit 1982 song “It’s Raining Men” was given a woke makeover by transgender singer Mila Jam, who remixed and renamed the chart-topping tune “It’s Raining Them.”

Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas, a founding member of the long-running soul-funk band Kool & the Gang known for such hits as “Celebration” and “Get Down On It,” has died. He was 70.

Morgan Wallen made a surprise appearance on stage, six months after being called on the carpet for uttering the “n-word” among friends.

Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been detained by Beijing police on suspicion of rape, police announced Saturday, following an accusation the former member of the Korean boy band EXO lured young women into sexual relationships.

The family of entertainer James Brown has reached a settlement ending a 15-year battle over the late singer’s estate, an attorney involved in the mediation said Friday.

A three-year-old pianist recently became the youngest individual to win a prestigious music competition which earned her a performance slot at Carnegie Hall.

Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.

New York punk rocker John Joseph — vocalist for the bands Bloodclot and Cro-Mags — responded to backlash over a large punk show recently held in New York City, proclaiming “cancel culture can go fuck themselves” and adding that punk rock will “carry on what we’ve been doing for decades.”

The Telegraph reports that University of Oxford academics have complained that “Teaching notation which has not ‘shaken off its connection to its colonial past’ would be a ‘slap in the face’ for some students”, as it has “complicity in white supremacy”.

BARCELONA, Spain — If one overlooked the white face masks dotting the tightly packed crowd of music lovers, it was almost like pre-pandemic times in Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi concert hall Saturday night.

The drummer for the nu-metal band Trapt has quit the group, suggesting that he disagrees with a series of pro-Trump comments made by its lead singer.

Proponents of children questioning and even changing their biological sex have produced a musical compilation dubbed Trans and Nonbinary Kids Mix to benefit a summer camp in New Hampshire that caters to parents who believe young children can choose their gender.

An antique store owner in Norwood, Massachusetts, gave a young man a huge surprise recently after he wowed everyone with his musical talent.

Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular “Forces´ Sweetheart” who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103.

Seventies rocker Todd Rundgren thinks Donald Trump is a “maniac,” so he is jumping on the campaign trail to help Democrats win in 2020 by re-recording his 1973 hit, “Just One Victory,” with the help of fellow stars Paul Shaffer, Joe Walsh, and Daryl Hall.

The Eurovision Song Contest and the Glastonbury Music Festival have been cancelled as Europe shuts down during the growing coronavirus pandemic.

A group of eight young boys in Antananarivo, Madagascar, are touching hearts all over the world by singing songs together. 

Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg gained fame lecturing adults about the threat climate change poses to her generation’s survival, and now her angry rants have been transformed into a choral arrangement by a British composer.

Another year, another list of Christian hip-hop I’ve enjoyed.

Hardline Islamists in Indonesia signaled they will keep trying to ban one of Asia’s biggest annual dance music festivals, the Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP), because it brings “immorality” into the capital city (whose name is more commonly spelled “Jakarta” outside of Indonesia) and violates Islamic law.

Police confirmed the death of South Korean pop star Goo Hara in her apartment on Sunday less than two weeks after releasing a new album – and six months after her latest suicide attempt.

Football commentator and former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson allegedly bullied rocker Janis Joplin when they were students at the same Texas high school, according to a new book.