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As fans across the globe mourn the loss of Prince, who died suddenly Thursday at the age of 57 at his estate in Minnesota, many are taking comfort in the music he left behind.

During her set at the Coachella music festival Saturday night, Canadian songstress Grimes used a huge graphic of erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders as a backdrop.

A man known in Turkey as the “Rockin’ Imam” has been denied permission to give a concert in Portugal by Turkey’s religious enforcement authority, the Diyanet. Imam Ahmet Muhsin Tüzer says his concert would have been “an important publicity opportunity” for Islam in the West.

After her anti-cop, politically charged Super Bowl halftime show, members of the New York Police Department are now demanding an apology from pop singer Beyoncé for her controversial performance.

In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.

American pop superstar Beyonce will perform in Tel Aviv in early August as part of her new Formation tour, Hebrew media reported Thursday. She will be performing twice, both times at Yarkon Park, the reports said.

As first reported by Ynet, Sir Elton John is returning to Israel. Six years after his previous visit, one of the most successful pop artists in history will play one concert at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on May 26.

In the wake of Friday’s Parisian terror attacks, which killed more than 120 people, U2 frontman Bono said Saturday his band did not pull out of a scheduled show.

The Cold War between the West, led by America, and the Communist bloc, led by the former Soviet Union, was a titanic struggle that spanned six decades. Its grinding permanence is now largely lost to the post-9/11 generation.

Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.

“Imagine for 15 years, you go to work, and everything that comes out of your mouth is something someone wrote for you to say,” actress Rose McGowan said in regards to her recent “awakening” as an artist. McGowan has released

On September 20, U2 canceled a concert in Stockholm after reports that an off-duty officer made it through security with a gun on his person.

“Life is a funny thing, you now,” says rock and roll icon Keith Richards in the trailer for his upcoming documentary. “Nobody wants to get old, but they don’t want to die young either.”

The video for Miley Cyrus’s latest single “Dooo It” dropped this week, and to say she really “does it,” would be an understatement.

Some themes obviously reflect his current mood in his presidency including “Nothing Even Matters” by Lauryn Hill, and “The Best Is Yet To Come” by Frank Sinatra. After beginning with an inexplicably jazzy version of the Sound Of Music’s “My Favorite Things,” the playlist predictably moves into Beyonce territory with Superpower followed by Van Morrison’s “Moon Dance.”

A lot has changed for rapper, producer, and music mogul Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, who said in the 2001 track “Forgot About Dre” alongside Eminem, “you won’t get a crumb from me, ‘cause I’m from the streets of Compton.”

Rocker Lenny Kravitz accidently introduced fans to a new member of his band at a show in Sweden Monday.

Two people were killed and five injured, three critically, after a pair of shootings outside rap concerts in Toronto and Holmdel, New Jersey late Monday night into Tuesday.

It appears Chief Keef’s arrest warrants are keeping him from appearing anywhere in the Midwest, even in hologram form.

John Mellencamp blasted the state of the music business at a UJA Federation of New York luncheon on Thursday—but reserved some kind words for Taylor Swift, who he said is the only one doing anything to save the music industry.

A Benedictine community of monks from Norcia, Italy, has released an album of heavenly strains of Gregorian chant that is enjoying extraordinary success. The CD not only debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s classical chart, but has held top billing for the third straight week.

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll might sound more glamorous than a diversified business portfolio, but the returns are a little more shortsighted.

A 22-year-old Yemeni rapper, who has become the first high-profile female artist of her kind in the troubled Arab nation, is receiving threats. Amani Yahya fled to Saudi Arabia due to the civil war engulfing Yemen and has dedicated her artistic career to shining a light on the suffering of Yemeni women and defying cultural norms for women in the devout Muslim nation.

And so, a new genre of music was born.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King, whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues, died late Thursday at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.

In October 2002, Ryan Adams ejected a fan from his concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for repeatedly requesting a cover of Bryan Adams’s “Summer of ’69.” The show was part of the singer’s intimate “Demolition” acoustic tour; the heckler’s repeated shouts for the song were an annoying distraction.

Instagram founder and chief executive Kevin Systrom announced the launch of a new account, @music, Wednesday morning, which will be “dedicated to exploring music around the globe, from those who create it to the community around it.”

Rapper and businessman Jay Z was joined by some of music’s biggest stars on Monday for the official re-launch of TIDAL, the first-ever artist owned streaming service, which plans to compete with bigs Pandora and Spotify. Jay Z recently acquired

Wilco, an alternative American rock band, canceled its upcoming show in Indianapolis because of Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

As South by Southwest terminates in its usual glut of pudgy arm tattoos, over priced craft beer, and beta male posturing, I must wonder, how do bands get popular these days?

Actors such as Russell Crow, Ryan Gosling, and Scarlett Johansson all have successful careers in film, but what you may not know is that the aforementioned A-listers are also musicians. Think that’s cool? Well, Johnny Depp doesn’t. In fact, the actor thinks the idea of it is “sickening.”

Madonna was seemingly less than thrilled that a 13-song collection of unreleased demos was leaked onto the Internet Wednesday. According to Billboard, many had speculated that the 13 songs constituted the entirety of Madonna’s highly anticipated, untitled new album, due