Kendrick Lamar leads the nominations, and slated performers include Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, Kacey Musgraves, and Lady Gaga.
Cardi B is also nominated, as are Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper for their song “Shallow” from A Star Is Born.
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode’s Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media.
Daniel Ek says he wants to spend up to $500 million on acquisitions this year.
It begins with Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protests.
“People can’t say they haven’t heard”: how the docuseries changed the R. Kelly conversation.
Rent should be an incandescent fire of hard-won anger and hope. But its “live” flame barely got to flicker.
The band’s viral cover of Toto’s “Africa” was rapidly eclipsed by its version of TLC’s “No Scrubs” — a sincere jam from a cheeky album.
RCA Records and its parent company, Sony, appear to be distancing themselves from the singer in the wake of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly.
“I want to tell a reader something they don’t know yet ... I want to make them feel smart when they get to work and feel like they’re ready to do their jobs.”
Gaga made a song with R. Kelly in 2013. Now, she says the choice was “twisted.”
In Surviving R. Kelly, Chance says engrained prejudice against black women protected Kelly from consequences.
Tracing the rise and fall of smooth jazz.
Legend is the only major music star to speak out against R. Kelly in a new doc.
Blue Note Records created the visual identity of modern jazz.
Also featured: the Carters and If Beale Street Could Talk.
In the era of Trump and apocalyptic change, Hopepunk is a storytelling template for #resistance — and hanging onto your humanity at all costs.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson reprise their roles, along with the original Schuyler Sisters.
It also had a totally different chorus.
Plot twist: During the Renaissance, it was performed in the summertime and may have been considered funny.
Airbnb and Slack are considering direct listings. Postmates, with JPMorgan’s help, is plotting the more traditional route.
Why do the Grammy nominations feel so outdated? An offset eligibility window.
Tuesday night’s screening was meant to give survivors a voice. Instead, it had to be evacuated due to threats.
John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” is the pinnacle of jazz improvisation.
Grande has a burn book and masters the bend and snap in her “thank u,next” music video.
Swift’s new record deal comes with stipulations.
Part of the magic of “thank u, next” is how it embodies Grande’s message of gratefulness and empowerment.
Many Japanese fans considered the shirt showing the World War II nuclear attack on Nagasaki an “insult.”
The two artists’ latest clash reveals just as much about the fans who pay attention to feuds as it does about the rappers who get into them.
Rami Malek stars as the Queen frontman, who was far more interesting than the movie he’s in.
Here are all the things you didn’t know about the 35-year-old scarefest.
The original Glinda shows us why she is the eternal HBIC of Shiz University.
How a music criticism debate from the early 2000s came to drive the narrative around A Star Is Born.
How West went from “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” to wearing a MAGA hat.
The bipartisan bill overhauls music licensing regulations for the streaming era.
“I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love,” Swift wrote on Instagram.
From the obvious to the overlooked, here’s the new music you should be listening to.
A children’s media expert on what Kidz Bop censorship says about how sex and violence are perceived in America.
Thanks to a now-infamous bar fight, UB40 jokes are all over your feed. Yes, that UB40.
How Hillsong Church transformed Justin Bieber from a bad boy into a Christian family man.