Carnival’s senior vice president of guest operations, Mark Tamis, announced the program Carnival Live, a concert series intended to help restore Carnivals image after three ships broke down last year. Images of passengers stranded at sea, ships towed back to port and trip cancellations created a torrent of bad publicity for the company that depressed…

It’s been nearly five years since U2 released No Line on the Horizon, their last proper studio album — but the band has resurged in the last several months thanks in part to their song “Ordinary Love” from the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Yesterday, they received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song and the recognition…

Taylor Swift was the most charitable celebrity of 2013, according to the social change nonprofit DoSomething.org. The pop star topped the organization’s annual “Top 20 Celebs Gone Good” list for the second year in a row thanks to the $100,000 donation she gave the Nashville Symphony on the occasion of her 24th birthday. She was also recognized for…

With only two weeks left in 2013, Beyoncé pulled off one of the year’s biggest surprises in music. As much of the country was tucking into bed Thursday night, the singer suddenly announced that her new self-titled album — one she’d spent a year teasing in high-profile live performances — was suddenly available for purchase…

Jay Z easily led Grammy Award nominations announced Friday with nine, but rappers Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kendrick Lamar were among a group of new stars who took many of the major nominations. Macklemore and Lewis’ gay marriage anthem “Same Love” was among song of the year nominees and the Seattle rap crew joined…

  The American Music Awards on Sunday saw Macklemore & Ryan Lewis enter the night leading with six nods and leaving with the awards for Favorite Artist (Rap/Hip-Hop) and Favorite Album (Rap/ Hip-Hop) for The Heist, and Taylor Swift take home the most trophies, including one for the evening’s top honor – Artist of the…

Paul McCartney is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Greenpeace activists whom Russian authorities detained in September. In a letter McCartney posted on his website, the singer assure Putin that Greenpeace is not anti-Russian and that the 28 activists arrested while staging a protest at a Russian oil-drilling platform in the Arctic Ocean…

George Strait beat out today’s hottest young country music talents to take home the Entertainer of the Year trophy at the 47th annual Country Music Association awards, held last night in Nashville, Tennessee. It was clear that Strait, who’s currently out on his Cowboy Rides Away farewell tour, didn’t expect the honor. Taking the stage,…

Class is now in session at the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. The pop star cut the ribbon on her new namesake facility in Nashville during a ceremony on Saturday morning, showing off the museum’s expansion to reporters and local high school students, the Associated Press reports.…

Platinum-selling rock band, Imagine Dragons, announced today they will kick off their “Into the Night Tour” on February 8, 2014 in Boise, Idaho. One of music’s breakout artists of 2013, Imagine Dragons have become touring sensations as they played to sold-out shows throughout their latest “Night Visions Tour.” Produced by Live Nation, the “Into the…