Norman E. Johns, the longest-serving African American musician of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, has passed away after a battle with cancer.

We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic ...

The Norman arts community is coming together for the first Ink the Block Party, a free festival featuring music, art, a steamroller printmaking demonstration and more. Hosted by Oscillator Press, ...

LAKE NORMAN, N.C. – A Lake Norman Charter employee has been placed on administrative leave for a social media comment regarding the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Lake Norman Charter released the ...

Spotify is finally rolling out its long-awaited, high-quality “lossless” audio streaming feature after years in the works, finally putting it on par with competitors like Apple Music, which have long ...

The Miller Historic District's eighth annual Porch Fest music festival will feature 38 bands across 11 different porches. Porch Fest started in 2007 in Ithaca, New York as a free, local music festival ...

A devoted father collapsed and died as he watched his son's coffin being carried into a funeral chapel. Norman White, 61, collapsed at the memorial service for David Beilicki, 41, who himself died on ...

Oklahoma-Michigan talk dominates most of the conversation today as for only the second time in history these two storied college programs play each other in football. Berry Tramel is a columnist at ...

Rosé looked like she could barely believe she won Song of the Year at the 2025 Video Music Awards, but had a two-page speech prepared just in case. After Paris Hilton (who walked out to her own bygone ...

Over its century and more, the yard founded by Norman Wright has turned its hand to almost anything, Nigel Sharp tells us. It was in 1909 that Norman Wright founded his boatbuilding business near ...