Apple Music will soon let you share songs and lyrics to your WhatsApp status as the fight against Spotify continues

Apple Music could soon offer lyric sharing direct to your WhatsApp status This would match a Spotify feature launched earlier this year The new feature could launch with iOS 26.2 Apple is reportedly working on a new feature for Apple Music which...

Review: Music icon celebrates landmark work in brilliant new way

Nas gave fans a night to truly remember. And it was also something they had likely never seen before. The elite rapper — who upped the hip-hop game in breathtaking ways when he made his debut on the national scene in the ’90s — made his Bay Area...

REVIEW: IRT’s ‘Marie and Rosetta’ retells Godmother of rock ‘n roll’s legendary partnership

While kiddos were out trick-or-treating last Friday, I made my way up to the fourth floor of the Indiana Repertory Theatre (IRT) for the opening night of “Marie and Rosetta.” Written by George Brant, “Marie and Rosetta” is a two-person one-act...

Spotify is launching a weekly mini ‘Wrapped’

Spotify has introduced a new “listening stats” feature that gives you a weekly overview of your recent music streaming habits. It essentially acts like a mini version of Spotify’s annual Wrapped review, showing you which artists and songs you’ve...

Spotify launches listening stats every 24 hours plus a weekly Wrapped, and it's a sure-fire way to beat Apple Music Replay" target="_self"…

Spotify is warming up for Wrapped by rolling out a new 'Listening stats' tab that shows you your top songs and artists from the past four weeks Updating every 24 hours, your stats give you a deeper insight to your streaming habits as well as...

Review: The Great British Bake Off Musical

If you want to escape the November blues, head into the warm comfort of York Stage’s The Great British Bake Off Musical at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre this week. With book and lyrics by Jake Brunger, and music by Pippa Cleary, this great British...

Review: Scythian Suite and Lieutenant Kijé

Deutsche Grammophon’s recent release of Sergei Prokofiev’s Scythian Suite and Lieutenant Kijé, performed by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra under conductor Claudio Abbado, is innovative in its engineering and “old school” in its delivery. For...

Review: VOVE Halloween Label Bash screams connection

For CSUN students looking to squeeze in some spooky festivities before October ended, there was no need to trek to the foggy hills of Universal City and splurge on a last-minute Horror Nights ticket. Instead, all they needed was 10 dollars and a...

Review: The Grateful Fed in South Baltimore is Music to Our Ears

There was a touch of grey among the clouds when we ducked into The Grateful Fed from the quiet side street on which the bar resides in South Baltimore. Although it looked like rain, the drops never materialized, and when we left, the sky was...

Review: Zelda setting elevates hack-and-slash gameplay of ‘Age of Imprisonment’

TORONTO — The “Dynasty Warriors” series, and its many spinoffs, have come a long way in 25 years. The bones haven’t changed much since 2000, when “Dynasty Warriors 2” introduced the hack-and-slash gameplay that spawned a host of sequels. Koei...

Review: Everything goes right with ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ in La Mirada

Before the curtain rises at La Mirada Theatre to begin the clever cascade of theater mishaps superpowering “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” a stage manager in backstage work togs ambles on to drone the tut-tut trinity of standard pre-show warnings....

“If you can live with just two channels, there’s a lot that impresses about this DJ controller”: Native Instruments Traktor MX2 review

MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing products to help you choose the best music-making gear for you. Find out more about how we test. What is it? With the launch of Traktor Pro 4 late last...

Nicole Kidman arrested at Sabrina Carpenter concert for ‘being too hot’: ‘OH, BABY GIRL’

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Nicole Kidman showed up at Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet Tour stop in...

Longtime Soundgarden Manager Susan Silver on the Band’s Rock Hall of Fame Induction, Working With Alice in Chains, and Paving the Way for Female…

In the fall of 1987, Ronald Reagan was president, Bon Jovi was the breakthrough band of the year, and mullets were still worn without irony by people who were not country musicians. Into that world dropped an orange-vinyl EP called “Screaming...

Good riddance to the EBacc — but it won’t revive arts and music in schools

It has been a grisly autumn for Keir Starmer’s government, but one of its announcements raised faint cheers this week, at least from arty types like me. Scrapping the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), the biggest decision to come out of Professor...

OPINION: Taylor Swift is not a racist Nazi, you just don’t like pop music

Following the release of a mega-pop star’s album, social media always provides insight into what narrative the culture wants to be true. Women in particular are continuously criticized and poked at by society for not being good enough. Taylor...

The lead single from Van Halen’s 1991 album with Sammy Hagar combines a thunderous bassline with a revved-up power drill

Van Halen’s third album with frontman Sammy Hager, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, was released in summer 1991, just as the Seattle grunge revolution was poised to explode. Notable for its absence of keyboards and ballads (apart from the...

CMS presents ‘Elf The Musical Jr.’

For the Journal Review Crawfordsville Middle School is spreading holiday cheer as they proudly present the festive and heartwarming production of “Elf The Musical Jr.” Directed by Jennie Swick and choreographed by Lisa Warren, this lively musical...

CALLERI: ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Springsteen’ put music on the moviegoing menu

By a quirk of scheduling, two movies about melancholic, albeit talented, figures in the world of music are playing in theaters. The first is “Blue Moon,” a delicious dark comedy that focuses on the extraordinarily gifted Broadway lyricist and...

Outlaw Country’s Finest: Cody Ikerd and the Sidewinders win Group of the Year at the Josie Music Awards

NASHVILLE, TN—The Indiana-based country-rock group Cody Ikerd and the Sidewinders has earned one of the most prestigious honors in independent music, taking home the award for Group of the Year in the Outlaw Country genre at the Josie Music Awards...