Author: Lars Brandle

For her next album, Dua Lipa pursued perfection. And, as history tells us, perfection takes time and hard graft. The British and Albanian star opened the 2024 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles with a performance of “Training Season” and “Houdini,” the first singles from her forthcoming third album. Lipa stayed on in L.A., and stopped […]

The fallout from Warner Music Group’s company-wide cull has already reached Australia, where the head of the domestic Warner Chappell company, Matthew Capper, is understood to be among the departures. Capper has led Warner Chappell Australia as managing director since 2010, and boasts more than 20 years’ service with the company. A popular figure in […]

Vinyl Group now has a fourth pillar. Following the completion of its acquisition of The Brag Media, the Sydney-based music and tech specialist doubles-down on its mission to build revenue and integrate its new asset. As previously reported, the transaction is funded with a new investment by billionaire WiseTech Global founder and CEO Richard White, […]

With a chance to win the NFL’s biggest prize, and doing so with Taylor Swift at his side, Travis Kelce is a guy with it all going for him. The football star’s good fortune doesn’t end there; he’s had a preview of Swift’s forthcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, which he critiques as “unbelievable” and […]

Killer Mike is confident his name will be cleared after an altercation with Grammy Awards security personnel on Sunday (Feb. 4) led to his arrest. It was a bittersweet night for the Atlanta rapper, during which he won three Grammys — for rap song of the year and rap performance of the year for “Scientists & […]

James Arthur completes a come-from-behind victory in the U.K. chart race, as Bitter Sweet Love (via Columbia) bows at No. 1, his second leader. The British singer and songwriter’s fifth studio album was languishing in third place during the first half of the chart week, before Bitter Sweet Love grew wings and edged into the […]

Taylor Swift’s long reign over Australia’s albums chart has come to an end, toppled by 21 Savage’s American Dream (via Epic/Sony). The London-born, Atlanta-based rapper’s sixth studio album starts at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Jan. 19, for his first solo leader. Previously, ARIA reports, Savage’s highest charting solo album was […]

Green Day will welcome fans to paradise on their forthcoming The Saviors Tour, by playing Dookie and American Idiot in full each night. Just days out from the release of Saviors, the pop-punk veterans confirm they’ll perform the classic albums on each and every date of the stadium tour, along with “a bunch of your […]

Eminem is keen to play ball with his beloved Detroit Lions. As the NFL franchise breaks its painful, three-decade-long playoff drought, Marshall Mathers puts his hand up for selection with an amusing play to coach Dan Campbell. Em gets into the spirit of the Lions’ rare post-season progress with a social post. “Yo, Dan, I’m […]