Billboard's Makin' Tracks column looks at the writing and recording behind the Nate Smith & Tyler Hubbard collaboration "After Midnight." By Tom Roland Never meet your heroes. That warning is a ...

Rumours have swirled for a while that Marvel Studios intends to introduce a new version of Ghost Rider in Avengers: Doomsday, no great surprise when the Russo Brothers have made a habit out of adding ...

There are a lot of ways that “Song Sung Blue” — a film about real Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute act Lighting and Thunder — could have gone awry. The premise alone could be a “Saturday Night Live” ...

If you do not know the story of Lightning & Thunder, you’d be forgiven for assuming the saga of the Milwaukee-based husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act in the 1990s was the stuff of fiction. But ...

Justin D. Burton, who has worked as a faculty member in the music department at Rider University for the last 18 years, is on the hunt for a career coach. Over the past eight years, he has weathered ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

Flea is best known as the unruly bassist of Red Hot Chili Peppers, but, today, he’s releasing a new song on which he returns to his original instrument: the trumpet. “A Plea” is out now on Nonesuch ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Country music stars including singer Jason Aldean and five-time Grammy-nominated songwriter Tom Douglas have spoken out after "Walk My Walk" by Breaking Rust—an artist who was created using artificial ...

Breaking Rust is breaking hearts — but he’s totally fake. “Walk My Walk,” an AI-generated track from the AI artist Breaking Rust, has topped the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales chart since the ...

An accrediting agency has taken the unusual step of placing a private New Jersey university on “probation” as the school tries to get itself out of a financial crisis. Rider University‘s president ...