Check out the must-hear releases of the week. By Jason Lipshutz Editor Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone ...

It’s easy to think of music as ephemeral and essentially free, rather than a thing you can dotingly select, acquire, and present to your nearest and dearest. Yet music is a courageous and intimate ...

Decked out in his new Santa Claus outfit, Jack Skellington, the ruler of Halloweentown, delivers a very different version of Christmas to the real world in Touchstone Pictures animated film, “Tim ...

If you can believe it, the holiday season is finally here. Black Friday is coming up fast, which means it’s time to start thinking about what to get the music lover in your life. Have no fear, the ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

It's that time of year again - before you know it you'll be unwrapping presents, driving slower because you're staring at the lights instead of the road, and yes, hearing sleigh bells in your car. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a newly revealed technique in ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

From Motown magic and gritty garage rock to pulsing techno, discover the sounds that make Detroit one of the world’s most influential music cities. Since opening at the end of Prohibition, Cliff ...

Lizzo claimed the origins of sampling laws are "racially charged." In an interview with the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast on Sunday, Sept. 14, the "About Damn Time" hitmaker, 37, discussed why ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 10: Billie Eilish performs on stage at The O2 Arena on July 10, 2025 in London, England. Digital technology has reshaped the music industry—not just in how it makes money but ...

Why? Why is this happening? Flo Milli is a really good rapper. She's got bounce and sass and lyrical perspective and personality. She's also got a handful of viral hits, and I guess she's trying for ...