North Carolina has long been a breeding ground for culturally significant musicians, from John Coltrane and Nina Simone to Thelonious Monk, Earl Scruggs and Randy Travis. “A lot of times, when people ...

JCSU marching band director and assistant professor of music Tomisha Price-Brock is using a $200,000 NEH grant to explore North Carolina music’s role in culture, education and technology. Jayden ...

The world’s largest shadow library—which is increasingly funded by AI developers—shocked the Internet this weekend by announcing it had “backed up Spotify” and started distributing 300 terabytes of ...

If you chose to go out last night for New Year's Eve, I hope you brought 2025 to an emphatic close. As for myself, I'm usually either all-in for New Year's Eve or all-out, and this year I was all-out.

As one might expect, the weekend between Christmas (on a Thursday this year) and New Year's Eve (on a Wednesday) tends to be on the lighter side in terms of events. That said, there's plenty of stuff ...

A Durham rapper known as KidCali has expanded his career beyond music with the launch of a motivational brand aimed at inspiring others to pursue their dreams. Charles Lewis, the artist behind MDMG ...

What goes up must eventually come down, and that certainly proved true in Charlotte’s white hot restaurant scene in 2025. As more than 200 new food and drink spots opened or announced plans to do so, ...

Universal Music Group on Tuesday named Hannah Poferl as chief data officer to oversee its global audience development and engagement strategy using data and artificial intelligence. Elon Musk's X Corp ...

With over a decade of experience reporting on consumer technology, James covers mobile phones, apps, operating systems, wearables, AI, and more.

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