Music

Jennie, of the K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, will be the first of the four members to release a solo song in November. Photo: Handout

K-pop star Jennie of BLACKPINK to release solo song in November

Singer is the first of the four-member girl group to issue a track alone, although they are all working on solo projects ahead of their first concerts next month

20 Oct 2018 - 5:24am 1

The investment in NetEase Cloud Music comes amid Baidu’s stepped-up efforts to build an ecosystem of content and battle for user attention as consumers upgrade their spending habits

Baidu steps up mobile content by investing in NetEase music unit

16 Oct 2018 - 4:08pm

Creative polymath Tedman Lee says that the debut album from N.E.R.D.

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13 Oct 2018 - 1:06pm

The possible listing delay comes after a global stocks plunge amid rising US and China trade tensions

Tencent Music said to delay US IPO amid market turmoil

12 Oct 2018 - 3:42pm

Fyre Festival promoter Billy McFarland, shown leaving US District Court in Manhattan in March after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges, was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison. Photo: AP

Promoter of failed Fyre Festival is sentenced to six years in prison

12 Oct 2018 - 4:32am 3

The American Music Awards on Tuesday night sees Cardi B, Amber Heard, Rami Malek and Jennifer Lopez dressed in their glittering best

Taylor Swift sets the red carpet ablaze at the AMAs

10 Oct 2018 - 2:37pm

Among the 169,000 new voter registrations on Vote.org since Sunday, more than half were by those ages 18 to 29

Pop star Taylor Swift rocks the vote and registrations spike

10 Oct 2018 - 7:43am 2

President-elect Donald Trump and Kanye West in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. Photo: AP

Kanye West to have lunch with Donald Trump at White House

10 Oct 2018 - 12:18am 3

The brawl between rappers Booba and Kaaris in Orly Airport in Paris on August 1, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Rayane Mab

French rappers get fined for destructive airport brawl

9 Oct 2018 - 9:20pm 1

Online karaoke, like social commerce and live-streaming, are being embraced in China as companies and internet users experiment with new formats to deliver entertainment and sell products and services.

There’s now a way to invest in the rising popularity of online karaoke

6 Oct 2018 - 5:07pm

Tencent Music’s platforms are becoming important vehicles for US pop stars such as Rihanna to reach a Chinese audience. Photo: AFP

Tencent Music files for US$1 billion initial public offering

3 Oct 2018 - 3:05am

Cardi B leaves a police station in Queens, New York on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Rapper Cardi B arrested in connection with New York strip club fight

2 Oct 2018 - 4:03am

The young rapper stands out from the rest of grime music, with its violent, anti-gay messages. Instead, he uses his sexuality as a way to deal with the prejudice he has faced since he first uploaded videos to YouTube

How grime star Karnage Kills is fighting back against homophobia

2 Oct 2018 - 3:25am

Michael Hutchence’s last years were turbulent and complicated, which his sister, in her new book, blames partly on a brain injury the Australian rock musician suffered in 1992.

Michael Hutchence’s traumatic brain injury revealed in sister’s book

30 Sep 2018 - 3:01am

After watching The Business of Being Born, Hong Kong entrepreneur Lindsay Jang dropped her doctor and hired a midwife

How a film showing childbirth as natural changed a mother’s life

1 Oct 2018 - 2:50pm 1

Analysts say much of Tencent Music’s revenue comes from services such as karaoke live broadcasting where admirers tip performers

Tencent Music, bound for US IPO, profits from socially savvy

28 Sep 2018 - 9:47am

Hitomi Yoshizawa, a former member of the J-pop all-girl idol group Morning Musume, leaves Nakano police station in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2018. She was arrested for injuring two people while driving under the influence of alcohol in an alleged hit-and-run incident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-Morning Musume idol indicted over ‘drunken hit-and-run incident’

26 Sep 2018 - 8:50pm

Lead singer and guitarist Adam Levine plays to the crowd during a Maroon 5 gig in Minnesota, the US. Photo: Alamy

Maroon 5 to perform debut concert in Macau next year

20 Sep 2018 - 3:21pm

Pope Francis, at right, welcomes Irish band U2’s Bono, prior to their meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday. Photo: Vatican Media via AFP

U2’s Bono says Pope Francis is ‘aghast’ over church sexual abuse crisis

20 Sep 2018 - 2:41am 4

Pair take inspiration from Buddhist murals dating back to the fourth century, and musical scores unearthed in one of the caves, to write nine pieces. A Hong Kong ensemble performed them at the Unesco monument in northwest China

How two Hong Kong composers recreated lost sounds of Dunhuang

20 Sep 2018 - 6:39pm 2

China's Tencent Music seeks US$2 billion in US IPO, report says

China's Tencent Music seeks US$2 billion in US IPO

20 Sep 2018 - 6:30pm

Ravers at ‘Trip to the Moon’ event suspected of overdosing in what could be one of the largest mass deaths from drugs at a music festival ever

Seven Vietnamese dead, five in coma after taking drugs at Hanoi rave

17 Sep 2018 - 9:28pm 1

British singer Dua Lipa took to social media to show her support for those removed at her Shanghai show. Photo: EPA

Videos of fan ejections at Dua Lipa’s Shanghai show are being removed

14 Sep 2018 - 11:59am 8

Rose of popular K-pop girl group Blackpink. Photo: Imaginechina

Meet Rose from K-pop’s Blackpink – she has the voice and the moves

12 Sep 2018 - 8:17pm

BTS onstage during the 2018 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP

World’s BTS fans make pilgrimage to Seoul to be close to their idols

11 Sep 2018 - 8:22pm

Johnny Hiller of Potato Head's Music Room. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Why Potato Head’s Music Room is a true audiophile’s heaven

10 Sep 2018 - 8:15pm

The Monterey Jazz Festival in California was launched in 1958, and remains the world’s longest consecutively run jazz festival.

Monterey Jazz Festival is big in Japan – and China could be next

9 Sep 2018 - 5:23am

At a red carpet event late Friday, security guards had to separate the two divas. Cardi B cursed and threw her shoe.

Nick Minaj and Cardi B nearly come to blows in New York

9 Sep 2018 - 12:46am 3

Steve Ho Sung-chi teaches at the Education University and is composer in residence for the Hong Kong Children's Choir. Photo: Nora Tam

Meet the McDull songwriter who blends Canto-pop with classical music

8 Sep 2018 - 2:16pm

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