CLEAR WATER, Wis. (WEAU) — After two years, UW-Eau Claire can finally bring back an annual celebration of Viennese culture. The Davies Student Center was packed with hundreds of people eating, dancing and enjoying musical performances over the weekend. It was an experience that COVID-19 had taken away, so far.Read More →

Former Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, left, left his old self, with new band Envy of None, Alfio Annibalini, Andy Curran and Maiah Wynne.Richard Sibbald/Handout How to wrap 40 years of career? If you’re guitarist Alex Lifeson, it’s done with bubble wrap, a whisper, and a kiss. The guitarist, who isRead More →

Michael Bublé captures his ninth top 10 on Billboard‘s Top Album Sales Chart (dated April 9) as his 11th full-length studio album, Upperdebuted at No. 3. This is the singer’s seventh consecutive full studio to bow in the top three of the chart. Upper begins with 21,000 copies sold inRead More →

BRUSSELS — Western nations stepped up pressure on Russia on Thursday over its invasion of Ukraine, with the European Union endorsing a ban on Russian coal and the United States set to withdraw Russia’s trade privileges and to ban its energy sales on the American market. The new sanctions cameRead More →

(To view the list of winners of the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, click here.) The evening began with a tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, but by the time the last of the 53rd annual GRAMMY Awards were handed out on Feb. 13, several other singers and bandsRead More →

PORTAGE PARK — A Far Northwest Side concert series in support of Ukrainian organizations continues through the end of April. Donna Kosiba, longtime employee and event planner at City News Cafe, 4018 N. Cicero Ave., tapped into her network of Ukrainians in Chicago to organize fundraisers at the cafe afterRead More →

Fans will have to wait a little longer to snag tickets for Why Don’t We’s 2022 North American tour. Previously slated to launch in Salt Lake City in June, the band took to social media on Tuesday (April 5) to say that ticket sales – which were due to goRead More →

of keshi first studio album GABRIEL won the Top New Artist Debut of 2022 with the highest first week sales for a debut album – landing GABRIEL a place in the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and in the Top 5 of the Billboard Top Album Sales chart. ReleasedRead More →

Anne Parsons, who as president and CEO revitalized the Detroit Symphony Orchestra following a bitter strike, using education and technology to attract new audiences, died March 28 in Detroit . She was 64 years old. Her husband, Donald Dietz, said the cause was complications from lung cancer. Ms Parsons, whoRead More →

What was old becomes new again. Vinyl records are making a comeback, as are small independent record stores. The last such store in Tallahassee opened its doors the last weekend in March. The small establishment is located in a former jewelry and watch repair shop across from Lake Ella CVS.Read More →

RENOWNED rapper Mwila Musonda aka Slapdee says his shows have been affected because most people aren’t going out as much as before the COVID-19 pandemic. In an interview, Slapdee, however, said the pandemic has opened up a different perspective as people are now streaming more music and buying digitally. “CovidRead More →

DJ Justin Blau was opening up for his superstar counterpart Avicii on a beach in Mexico when he met the Winklevoss twins, who introduced him to bitcoin. “It couldn’t get more cliché than that,” he says of his 2014 encounter with Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard classmates, who have since become blockchainRead More →

The academy has taken steps to address these issues, but whether that will be enough to stifle dissent remains to be seen. Last year it eliminated its longstanding use of anonymous selection committees to determine many candidates, which the Weeknd and others had called unfair. Yet just a day beforeRead More →

Apple said wednesday that so-called “reader apps”, which allow users to access content libraries on their phones, will be allowed to use external links in their apps to allow users to register or manage their accounts . The move, announced last year as part of an agreement with the JapanRead More →

Taylor Hawkins pushed the Foo Fighters into the spotlight one last time after his death. Since joining Foo Fighters, Hawkins has contributed a lot to the band’s popularity, giving it everything it had in the years leading up to his death. For the last time, he brought them to numberRead More →

South Korean pop group Stray Kids debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart (dated April 2) with odd, marking not only the act’s first chart debut, but its first chart entry. The seven-song set, recorded mostly in Korean, debuts at the top of the chart with 110,000Read More →

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei said Monday its sales fell but its profits rose 76% in 2021, despite U.S. sanctions. Huawei’s chief financial officer was released by Canadian authorities last year, ending a standoff with Washington over the tech giant’s dealings with Iran. The company is caughtRead More →

The Vancouver Island Rock and Alpine Garden Society – the oldest rock garden and alpine garden society in North America – celebrates its 100th anniversary with a spring display and plant sale at the Mary Winspear Center on Friday and Saturday. The society has been active in the gardening communityRead More →

With the rise of visual entertainment media, it’s no surprise that Americans are reading less books, especially for leisure. About a quarter of Americans say they haven’t read any books at all in 2021, whether in print, electronic or audio form. How can leisure reading survive an era of brighter,Read More →

Boise Valley Economic Partnership leaders said the annual five-day event brings millions of dollars to the local economy. BOISE, Idaho — Now in its tenth year, Treefort Music Fest continues to garner more attention nationwide. That attention is paying off for local businesses in downtown Boise, as people between performancesRead More →

Sweetwater, an e-commerce site that focuses on musical instruments and professional audio equipment, is betting on a custom affiliate link program to fuel its next phase of growth. The online retailer, which caters to professional and amateur musicians, has been around since the early 1980s. However, it has only beenRead More →

Harry Styles is becoming “one of the most accomplished entertainers of his time”, according to Wembley Stadium’s James Taylor. Taylor is senior business manager at Wembley Stadium and spoke to Music Week about the singer’s upcoming shows in London on June 18-19. Yesterday (March 23), Styles announced the release ofRead More →

The wait is coming to an end. The Pollard Theater Center’s performance of “The Music Man,” originally scheduled two years ago, is scheduled for March 31 through April 3 at the Founders’ Center at Pollard United Methodist Church in Tyler. Musical director Jayne Brown said the theater troupe was twoRead More →

Text size A monitor displays Tencent Music Entertainment Group signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Chinese stocks soar after Ali Baba announced a major share buyback plan. Including Tencent Music , which released a lukewarm earnings report overnight. TencentRead More →

JThe emergence of the phrase “be familiar with” as a more modern version of “be familiar with” is an appropriate linguistic reflection of the history of technology. Putting handles on things is more modern than grabbing them – 2.1 million years more modern, apparently. It sounds like a dizzying amountRead More →

Ameco opens a store in Prairieville Ameco, a construction and maintenance services company, opened an operations center in Prairieville. Location at 15089 Airline Highway will support capital construction, operations and maintenance, shutdown and restoration, and disaster relief efforts for engineering, procurement and construction contractors . Ameco said it is currentlyRead More →

She was born Marcia Weinraub on June 10, 1939 in the Bronx to Dorothy (Lautman) and Ralph Weinraub, a realtor known as Lefty. She attended New York University for three years, studying retail and journalism (and winning Miss New York University in 1959). She worked as a buyer and fashionRead More →

One of the most talented artists in the world, Ed Sheeran, is heading down for the first time in 5 years. Here’s everything you need to know about show dates, locations, and ticket sales (including how you can get sneaky presale access!). After breaking records in 2018, Ed Sheeran announcesRead More →

Selena’s new album released A new album featuring 13 songs by the late Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez will be released next month, her father has announced. Fans of the late Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla Perez are in for a treat. Her father said a new 13-song album would beRead More →

Intel’s integrated graphics technology has gotten pretty good in recent years, even coming close to giving NVIDIA’s entry-level MX-series GPUs a run for their money. But Intel is just getting started – the company also plans to ship 4 million discreet GPUs this year, starting with discrete graphics solutions forRead More →

Music and community camaraderie highlight fundraising event The Disney and Dessert fundraising event takes center stage again. Islanders were swept away by the colourful, fun and energetic fundraising event which featured the local school orchestra and brought community members together on the afternoon of March 6th. Sharon Singh, president ofRead More →