Amazon Music announced Tuesday the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Topics,” which allows users to explore podcast episodes by specific topics discussed in the episode. When you visit the page ...

Hot Topic, the alternative rock accessories and apparel store, launches a DRM-free music store to compete with iTunes and Amazon. Don Reisinger CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist ...

AI-generated bands like The Velvet Sundown are going viral on streaming platforms. "[The Velvet Sundown]" is much better music than most of what we've heard from AI in the past," Jason Palamara, a ...

Before the Hot Topic store ever opened up, the buzz was going around school. So says Nathan Fitzpatrick, who has walked through the new store's iron-arch, club motif entrance 20 times since its April ...

Topic and Bebe Rexha take viewers into a shadowy, sexually-charged world in the official video for their hit single, "Chain My Heart." Jason Lester - who directed the feature film High Resolution and ...

Is Beyoncé going to get some love at the country radio format, now that she’s released a single, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” that openly embraces the genre? That’s a big question mark, as radio programmers, ...

I haven't set foot in Hot Topic — a mall mainstay — in at least a decade. Back then, I was a little intimidated by Hot Topic's loud music and goth aesthetic. In 2023, the chain has stayed afloat by ...

The most torrid new torchbearers in that old nightclub marathon are a couple of tawny, husky-voiced singers named Sallie Blair and Abbey Lincoln. Both have a captivating, come-hither way with a song, ...