Breadcrumb Trail links Entertainment Music ‘My job is very simple: I do what I want to do, I say what I want to say’ Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Subscribe Published on March 30, 2026 • Last updated 2 hours ago • 5 minutes count You can save this article … Read more
BTS’ “Swim” debuts best, at No. 1, on the Billboard Hot 100. The song becomes the South Korean pop group’s seventh career number one and first since 2021; the following year, the septet announced a hiatus. “Swim” comes from ARRIANGBTS’ first studio album of new material from 2020. The group explodes to the top of … Read more
On March 28, Kanye West released his latest album Champions. The hype surrounding the project has lessened, thanks to the ever-changing release date, and Ye’s confusion bubble has formed around him. According to the first, unofficial metrics provided by Chart Data, Champions it was streamed 33.2 million times on Spotify on its first day. Per … Read more
Helloween vocalist Michael Kiske recently discussed the growing use of AI music generators in a new interview with And Now The Band podcast. Do you want to see Helloween live? They are scheduled to bring their 40 Years Anniversary Tour to North America this spring, with support from the Finnish melodic metal band. The Beast … Read more
The new Rush is back on stage ahead of their hotly anticipated reunion tour, playing one of their first singles at the 2026 Juno Awards. The band, which currently sees guitarist Alex Lifeson and bassist Geddy Lee joined by former Jeff Beck singer Anika Nilles and former Who keyboardist Loren Gold, marked their first appearance … Read more
In a surprising move, K-pop supergroup BTS scored yet another No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with their reunion album, Arrang. This is the seventh time the team has topped the chart. The seven-member outfit returned for their first album in nearly four years last week, after the group took a break to … Read more
Think of a song. (After you finish thinking about Scatman John”Skatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop),” let me finish my presentation.) Consider a song about the great classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a song about his rock-star achievements but also spending a lot of time talking about his faults. At this point, what we have mentally constructed is a … Read more
Written by DAVID GLENN No American men’s basketball program has more experience in the Final Four spotlight than the University of North Carolina. The Tar Heels have competed in the national semifinals 21 times, appearing from 1946 to 2022. UNC’s attention during the final four weeks this year, however, is because the university is in … Read more
We’ve recently been reminded that when we announce our Tracks Of The Week winners, we neglect to do them in reverse order, a time-honored way of creating unnecessary tension at such events. So here goes. In the third place … Crown Lands, by Through The Looking Glass. In the second place … The Meffs, by … Read more
GREAT HIP-HOP The Best Hip-Hop on Bandcamp, March 2026 By Phillip Mlynar · March 30, 2026 March’s roundup of the best new music to hit Bandcamp includes a Cape Town MC’s natural-sounding album, Oslo’s piano performance, and an amped-up workout from Bristol-based songwriters. We also explore the hip-hop aspects of the children’s story Peter and … Read more