After weeks of tension and threats of a U.S. ban on fast-growing social media giant TikTok, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that would bar any U.S. company from doing business with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance after the next 45 days. This comes days after …

The producers of the Eurovision Song Contest will bring the long-running competition to American televisions in 2021. Similar to its continent-spanning cousin across the Atlantic, American Song Contest will feature musical acts from all 50 states, with each artist trying to win the live television event with the best original …

Daisy Coleman, the rape survivor who was featured in the 2016 Netflix documentary Audrie and Daisy,was found dead by suicide at the age of 23. Coleman’s mother Melinda posted about the death of her daughter on Facebook, writing that police found her body after she requested a welfare check on …

Qello Concerts will be streaming classic performances from Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and more as part of their Summer Encore Festival virtual lineup. On Monday, Qello shared an exclusive clip of Joplin performing at the Woodstock Festival, featuring an impressive vocal belt from the iconic singer to …

In a normal year, a few thousand lucky ticket-holders would be descending on Fort Adams in Rhode Island right now for the Newport Folk Festival, gearing up for a series of one-off performances in one of the most stunning settings imaginable. One unforgettable Newport performance happened in 2017, when John …

Alanis Morissette channeled mothers across the world during quarantine when she performed with her daughter in tow on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which will air on Thursday night. Morissette and her band joined the late-night show virtually to debut “Ablaze,” off her ninth studio album, Such Pretty Forks …

UPDATE: Soon after President Trump suggested in a tweet that the election should be delayed, several Republican lawmakers were pressed for comment. None of them lent any credence to the suggestion, but they also stopped short of condemn the president or the tweet. CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju compiled some …

“I’ve never been more bullish about where we are today,” Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify, said to investors on the streaming service’s second-quarter (Q2) earnings call Wednesday morning. But the company proceeded to report a 21% year-over-year loss in advertising revenue, as well as a 9% year-over-year drop in …

“Everything you said/Was half true at best,” Kathleen Edwards sings on “Fool’s Ride,” the latest song from her forthcoming album Total Freedom. A knowing reflection on a relationship that turned sour, the breezy, mid-tempo rocker is a telling moment on Total Freedom, which was written while Edwards was in the …

John Oliver delivered a detailed and devastating look at China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, on Last Week Tonight. The Uighurs, as Oliver explained, live primarily in the Xinjiang province; they’re culturally and ethnically distinct from most of the rest of China (which …