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It’s the season of giving, and the ARIA Charts are delivering plenty of musical cheer. Taylor Swift and Rosé are unwrapping some major milestones just in time for the holidays. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Swift continues her record-breaking year at ...

In a recent chat with YouTube channel RichardMetalFan (posted on Dec. 13), Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner revealed why he “hated” both Metallica and Slayer when he first heard them (and what led to him changing his mind). Bittner’s Discovery of Heavy Metal At the start of their conversation, Bittner ...

Taylor Swift showed up to Saturday’s Chiefs-Texans game in a red, faux fur coat, looking how Penny Lane might’ve if she’d had a cozy Red era. The pop star was photographed on Dec. 21 arriving at Arrowhead Stadium, where boyfriend Travis Kelce’s team, the Kansas City Chiefs, were playing the ...

Hair metal is a divisive subgenre, even down to the name of the style of music it’s most known as. Whatever you want to call it, we’re looking at the most underrated bands from the scene that deserved to be way bigger. Critics coined the term “hair metal” as a ...

On Friday night (Dec. 20), Billie Eilish played the penultimate show of her five-night run at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. — not to mention the second-to-last U.S. date of her global Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour, which is slated to pick up again in Brisbane, Australia on ...

Ozzy Osbourne may have come much closer to performing at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony than originally thought. Osbourne was inducted as a solo artist at the 2024 event. Though health woes have forced him to retire from the road, Osbourne expressed hope he’d be able to take ...

Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph’s “High Road” travels a spot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (dated Dec. 28). In the Dec. 13-19 tracking week, the duet increased by 20% to 33.6 million audience impressions, according to Luminate. “High Road” is the first Country Airplay entry for the ...

A new report from Business Insider (titled How rich musicians billed American taxpayers for luxury hotels, shopping sprees, and million-dollar bonuses) has called out several acts across multiple genres, including Alice in Chains and Shinedown, scrutinizing pandemic relief payouts. In some of the other cases highlighted in the report, there were clear misuse of pandemic ...

Several more players in the independent music community have called on regulators to block the acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings by Universal Music Group (UMG) announced this week, arguing the deal “would seriously distort the global music market” and “reduce competition and the independents’ bargaining power.” Virgin Music Group, which ...

Loudwire has ranked the 11 best metal albums of 2024. Come see if your favorites from this year made the cut! As we get deeper into the 2020s, one thing is becoming increasingly clear — we’re living through one of the best eras for heavy music in its 50-plus year ...