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  After magazine deadline day, there aren’t many things that can entice me away from a bottle of cheap sauvignon and my Netflix, but the notion of getting to see Island’s rising star Kiesza for a sold-out show at the Sunset Strip’s beloved Roxy had me downright giddy. Let me get one thing straight; this girl will be huge. I don’t think…

As streaming gathers momentum, the U.S. music industry keeps breaking sales milestones — the wrong kind. This week’s 3.97-million album sales tally is the smallest weekly sum for album sales since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. It’s also the first time weekly sales have fallen below four million in that time span….

Pictures have emerged of American pop star Redfoo being smashed in the head by a glass bottle and hotel security guards trying to restrain the bleeding singer. Police charged a 21-year-old man over the attack on the American music star at the Golden Sheaf Hotel in Double Bay in Sydney’s inner east around 12:45am on…

Many artists at varying levels of success put little thought into their stage show, and it shows. It’s a rare performer that can captivate an audience by his or her performance alone, and most audiences, even on a club level, expect to be entertained on multiple levels these days. In the following excerpt from my…

Hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa earns his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as his new Blacc Hollywood set arrives atop the list. The album, which was released Aug. 19, sold 90,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 24, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Blacc Hollywood follows two No. 2-peaking albums from Khalifa: Rolling Papers…

I don’t know when it was decided that we needed an official “song of the summer,” but some time ago that happened. It’s something we need now. Last summer belonged to “I Love It” by Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX, until “Blurred Lines” had stolen it by Labor Day. “Party in the USA” was a song…

The new cut, titled “Let It Go,” is more ethereal than we’ve come to expect from the UK producer. [Resident Advisor]

Snow Storm. Jeezy was arrested over the weekend following the backstage murder at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in San Francisco. When a search warrant was executed on his tour bus at the next tour stop in Irvine, CA, authorities found an assault rifle. According to TMZ he’s currently in custody on $1 million bail….