When it was first announced last year, Harmonix Music VR was pitched mainly as a music visualizer, a chance to create "actual environments that were themselves an expression of your music," according to designer Jon Carter. At the time, he also framed this project as an opportunity for Harmonix to familiarize itself with virtual reality. "This is my company's first foray into the medium, and an attempt to define the category of VR music visualization," he wrote on the PlayStation Blog.

In a post on his website, the British guitarist claims he received "an avalanche of complaints" from fans after the presumptive Republican presidential candidate played the Queen hit "We Are The Champions" at a recent event. "This is not an official Queen statement, but I can confirm that permission to use the track was neither sought nor given," writes the musician.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who killed an MTV music coordinator and another man during a series of Los Angeles robberies has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The electronic music, culture and arts festival Mysteryland is taking place from June 10-13 in New York before heading to its homeland in the Netherlands from August 27-28. The Mysteryland festival was launched in 1993, making it the Netherlands' longest-running dance music festival, and arguably even the oldest in the world. In 2011, the first edition of the festival was launched in Chile, followed by a US version in 2014 on the site of the famous Woodstock music and art festival in Bethel, New York.

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Fan voting will continue through the live show on Wednesday, which will be co-hosted by Erin Andrews and J.J. Watt.

Alexander Wang has teamed up with Apple to spearhead a fashion channel for the tech brand.

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Drake's "Views" is sitting pretty at the top of the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for a fifth consecutive week.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah music producer who was ordered to 55 years behind bars for bringing guns to marijuana deals has been set free, after 12 years in prison and national outcry over the mandatory minimum sentencing laws that forced a federal judge to impose the lengthy term.

A rock music festival in Germany was halted for five hours on Saturday with organizers urging more than 90,000 fans to seek shelter in cars and tents as another thunderstorm approached hours after lightning strikes injured 71 people. Festival organizers told a news conference that performances would resume after the storm blew over, and said they had warned some 92,500 participants before arriving to be prepared for bad weather. “We are not considering cancelling the festival,” said spokeswoman Katharina Wenisch.