No more having to choose between only weird covers or extremely sped-up songs on TikTok: The app is finally bringing back your favorite artists’ music. TikTok and Universal Music Group announcedThursday they’ve entered into a new licensing agreement, thereby returning the world’s largest music company’s music to the app after just over three months without
Two-year-old Idiyanale Padrigan watches fourth-generation Filipina weaver, Evelynda Otong, as she works at her backstrap loom. She’s crafting another square to join the fabrics scattered from the floor to the ceiling at the PASACAT Philippine Performing Arts Company studio in National City. Whether Idiyanale knows it or not, she is receiving an introduction to her
TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have settled their dispute. The two parties have agreed on a new licensing agreement that will return the latter company’s catalog — including songs from Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Billie Eilish — to TikTok’s music library. Tracks from UMG artists were muted on TikTok for three months as a result of
By Chris Lillja, JerseyArts.com originally published: 05/02/2024 The Mercer County Teen Arts Festival is an annual event that serves as a celebration of the artistic talents of teenagers from Mercer and across the state. This festival, typically held in the late spring, aims to foster the creative development of young artists through a diverse range
What happens in Baltimore doesn’t stay in Baltimore — it sometimes rockets around the world and ends up fueling the pulsating soundtrack of an advertisement for a popular sports drink in the U.K. That’s how powerful Baltimore Club music has been and continues to be as more and more people discover the hypnotic beats of
Harlem Grown/Tall Poppy In partnership with New York-based studio Tall Poppy, Harlem Grown, a New York-based non-profit is releasing one-of-one Air Force 1s. Founded in 2011 by Tony Hillery, the non-profit has provided access to free healthy food, education on urban farming, and now proudly has 14 farms located throughout Harlem. Harlem Grown’s latest creative
A quarter century after releasing groundbreaking work tracing the many ways Black Americans have created, contributed to, and been influenced by country music, on May 31, 2024, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, in collaboration with Warner Music Nashville, will release an expanded, 82-track version of “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in
May 2, 2024, 11:03am In an essay on the painter Walter Sickert, Virginia Woolf once voiced a surprising preference: “Words are an impure medium; better far to have been born into the silent kingdom of paint.” This turned out to be a running theme. In 2021, David Zwirner put out a collection of her art
To benefit artists and the Fondation du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal MONTREAL, May 2, 2024 /CNW/ – In anticipation of Les Printemps du MAC, an event benefiting the Fondation du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), the organization is pleased to reveal a number of personalities and artists who will participate in its eagerly-awaited May
When Charu Khanijau, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Delhi, saw her bridal-look pictures shared on the Instagram profile of her wedding makeup artist, she was taken aback. She did not look like herself at all. In fact, she did not look like that even on her wedding day. FYI, she was extremely happy with how she