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Megastar musician Ed Sheeran performed at a surprise concert in Dublin on Monday night - playing his best known songs for 1,700 fans at a concert in the RDS Ed Sheeran performed at a surprise concert in Dublin on Monday night. He played for 1,700 fans at an 'intimate' concert in the RDS. The English singer, who has ties to Ireland on his father's side, was the third instalment in the Spotify Billions Club series,

"I always knew I was going to return to music. I needed to feel safe and I needed to have the right people in my corner and be absolutely 100% ready," Duff told on October 26. "Honestly, I needed to have 10 years of life under my belt. I needed a lot to say. This album feels like the inner workings of my brain and I really am so excited to connect with people again on that level, that very forward-facing level."

Only days after drummer Simon Kirke shared the exciting news that he would reunite with singer Paul Rodgers for a Bad Company performance during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Rodgers has backed out of the event citing his health. Bad Company are set to be inducted along with Soundgarden, OutKast, The White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, and others this Saturday at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.

Almost fifty years after its release in 1977, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is somehow still one of the most popular albums in the world. Created in a cauldron of intraband romantic turmoil and fueled by voracious drug intake, this very week, it sits at Number 19 on Billboard's album chart. In 2023, Rumours was the most streamed album of the twentieth century on Spotifymore than any Beatles album, more than Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, more than Nirvana's Nevermind or Dr. Dre's The Chronic or anything else.

Slayer's Kerry King was asked to choose between two of his fellow "Big 4" thrash-metal bands, and not only did the guitarist pick Metallica over Megadeth, he worked in a zinger about Dave Mustaine's vocal abilities. At the end of an interview with host Vanessa B of the YouTube series Reigning TV, King and Mark Osegueda (singer for both Death Angel and King's eponymous band) were challenged with choosing between a number of bands and musicians.

Oklou just released the deluxe edition of Choke Enough, and the French pop singer has announced 2026 tour dates in support of her debut studio album. The headline tour will begin after her first performance at the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. See all of Oklou's upcoming tour dates below. This Friday night, November 7, Oklou will take the stage at Roundhouse for Pitchfork Music Festival London.

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we're sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music.

"Why aren't there more orchestral concerts featuring Portland classical composers?" The piano concerto they commissioned from Portland composer David Schiff for legendary Portland jazz pianist Darrell Grant notwithstanding ( read about that here) - and also notwithstanding their recent collaborations with Oregon composers Andy Akiho, Nancy Ives, and Giancarlo Castro D'Addona - it seems a fair question for a symphony orchestra with "Oregon" in its name.

Across the streaming world, companies have been focused on adding features that make their top-tier subscriptions more valuable to the users who consume their content. Anime streamer Crunchyroll recently added access to a library of digital manga for top-paying customers. Spotify-somewhat belatedly-has begun offering high-quality audio for its Premium subscribers. SoundCloud is taking a different approach. It operates a standard streaming platform, with 100 million licensed tracks.

LOS ANGELES -- The Jonas Brothers are spreading Christmas cheer early with brand-new music from "A Very Jonas Christmas Movie." The first single, "Coming Home This Christmas," featuring legendary saxophonist Kenny G, is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music. The track appears on the upcoming "A Very Jonas Christmas Movie" Original Soundtrack, set to release Nov. 14 from Hollywood Records and Republic Records.

Daniel Lopatin will release his upcoming Oneohtrix Point Never album, Tranquilizer, later this month, and, today, he's previewing the LP with a new song. "Cherry Blue" comes with a music video by Pol Taburet, marking the French artist's first-ever foray into the medium. The painter incorporates surreal imagery in the short film to signify the gaps between life and death, body and spirit, and decay and renewal. Check it out below.

So much of this record is almost about the insecurity of making records,

"Every month, under Spotify's watchful eye, billions of fraudulent streams are generated from fake, illegitimate, and/or illegal methods [like bots]," the complaint reads. "This mass-scale fraudulent streaming causes massive financial harm to legitimate artists, songwriters, producers, and other rightsholders whose proportional share is decreased as a result of fraudulent stream inflation on Spotify's platform." Spotify pays streaming royalties based on an artist's share of total streams.

Now go support my album, 'cause I'm a mother of four now,

Britney Spears' ex has been accused of cashing in on his relationship with the pop star by revealing jaw-dropping details about their rollercoaster courtship and marriage in a new memoir In 2004, Kevin Federline was one of the most talked-about and recognisable men in the world. Catapulted into the public eye from relative oblivion, the Californian-born dancer married Britney Spears after three months of dating in September of that year, while his ex-partner was pregnant with his second child (the couple's own two sons, Preston and Jayden, arrived in September 2005 and September 2006 respectively).

In the working-class city of Commerce, where cars speed past on highways and the Citadel Outlets tower over neighborhoods, there is a steakhouse named Stevens. By day, it's a classic and charming old restaurant where working people go for quiet, hearty meals.

For the illustrated, what stands out are Tony McDermott's classic album covers for recording engineer Scientist. Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires features a cacophony of monsters and ghouls, depicted like a scene from the myth of Orpheus, except the boat sailing down the River Styx supports Scientist and a Jamaican soundsystem.

Jane Inc. began as both a product of lockdowns and a statement of liberation. The pandemic-spawned project has allowed its CEO -Toronto-based artist Carlyn Bezic-to present a more stylistically promiscuous, lyrically provocative identity separate from her collaborative pursuits in the U.S. Girls universe, reinventing this seasoned indie axe-slinger as an all-seeing art-pop auteur equally enamored with electro-disco and bossa nova, like a DIY Madonna who never left the Danceteria.