Record Store Day may know what it’s doing, traditionally scheduling the biggest sales day of the year for independent music retailers on the Saturday after tax day. You are very, very, very confident you’re going to be getting a hefty refund, and that’s why you can blow into your local shop and lay down hundreds […]

Taylor Swift is famous for her “Secret Sessions,” where, for most of her albums of the pre-COVID era, she invited a few dozen select fans to sit in a living room and be the first to experience a new album and hear her stories about how she wrote and recorded each song. Paul McCartney might […]

Oasis’ 2025 reunion tour won the Major Tour of the Year award at the 2026 Pollstar Awards, held Wednesday night in Hollywood as the centerpiece event of the annual Pollstar Live! conference, hosted by the primary trade magazine focused on the live music business.. Other top winners in genre-based categories included Metallica (for rock tour […]

Coachella 2026 is underway, and for home viewers, so is Couch-ella. Most of the performances from weekend 2 will be streamed live on YouTube, across seven channels for seven stages — check out the full schedule of streams, below. Although most sets will be seen live, some will be shown on a delayed basis, like […]