Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, St. Vincent, Mark Ronson, Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, Andra Day and Chloe x Halle all joined the performance line-up for the 2019 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy tweeted the latest announcements on Wednesday. Lady Gaga will perform with Ronson — and though no specific song …

In the music industry, big advance payments are old hat: A new artist lands a hit and a bunch of labels rush over waving multi-million-dollar checksfor his or her next album. But the high bets are often risky, and the cash only goes to a handful of names every year. …

Ruston Kelly recently unveiled shirts adorned with the words “Dirt Emo,” a pretty spot-on term to describe his sound that melds some Southern flourishes, like steel guitar and evocative, narrative songwriting, with the emotional draw — and communal cry-along quality — of emo’s best anthems. On Saturday night at Nashville’s …

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam held a press conference Saturday to apologize for the racist photo that appeared on his tribute page in his medical school yearbook, while at the same time saying he is neither the man wearing blackface nor the man in the Ku Klux Klan hood in the …

Update [7/19]: Kacey Musgraves has announced an additional five U.S. dates to her tour, with two shows each in Dallas, Texas, and New York City, and a stop at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville with Maggie Rogers. See the full list below. Kacey Musgraves has added a string of late-summer dates …

A fake university was helping immigrants stay in the U.S. on student visas — until it was revealed to be an elaborate sting operation run by undercover ICE agents. The website for the University of Farmington has been taken down and replaced with an official notice stating “The University of …

Toronto punk band Pup envision their future selves in their new video for “Kids.” The song will appear on their forthcoming album, Morbid Stuff, which is available for pre-order and will be released on April 5th via Little Dipper/Rise Records. The Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux-directed visual is set in the year 2059, …

Thirty-nine years ago next month, Linda Ronstadt released Mad Love, her tenth LP as a solo artist. Ronstadt had previously topped both the pop and country singles charts respectively with high-spirited takes on “You’re No Good” and “When Will I Be Loved,” but Mad Love put the singer in new-wave …

SoundCloud, the Berlin-based streaming service whose launch of so many young rap careers spawned its ownmusic genre,upped its global revenue from 2016 to 2017 by more than 80 percent, according to its latest financial reports. The company, however, has been troubled recently byfinancial upheaval. The company’s 2017 accounts, recently filed …

The C2C: Country to Country festival is gearing up for a year of major expansion in 2019, and performers headlining the multi-city event this time around will be Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, and Chris Stapleton. Now in its seventh year, the three-day festival is spread across three different locations, rotating …