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KEN EHRLICH has produced more than 200 TV specials and live events, but the producer, who's getting a star Jan. 28 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is perhaps best [...]

Let's get this out of the way: Dhani Harrison is the son of George Harrison--Beatle, guitar legend, cultural icon. As a composer and songwriter, the younger Harrison clearly owes a [...]

Lee Daniels, co-creator of Fox's new series 'Empire,' is the first to admit that musically he's 'stuck in the world of Diana Ross and Donna Summer,' so the director of [...]

From relative newbies Florida Georgia Line to vets like Keith Urban to perennial winner Jason Aldean, these Artists of the Year deliver the goods commercially and critically JASON ALDEAN The [...]

BY THE TIME DECEMBER ROLLS AROUND, the last thing most music acts want is to trot out for another awards show, having already gotten dolled up for the Grammys, American [...]

FROM BARBRA STREISAND'S 'Partners' and Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga's 'Cheek to Cheek'--both of which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200--to collections from Annie Lennox, Barry Manilow, Aretha [...]

After last year's 50th birthday extravaganza took the Academy of Country Music Awards from its usual stomping grounds at MGM's Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas to Dallas' AT&T Stadium, [...]

A few years ago on a hot June night in Nashville, Country Music Television exec VP of development and events Jayson Dinsmore experienced an epiphany. He was at CMA Music [...]

WITH THE EXCEPTION of a few top-tier names, most composers toil away in the shadow of A-list movie stars and directors. The exception comes with six European film music festivals, [...]

AS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CONCLAVE Midem shifts from its usual January dates to June 5-8 for the first time, attendees say the Cannes confab remains a vital player, despite increasing competition. [...]

The axiom 'everything's bigger in Texas' certainly holds true for the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards. To herald the golden anniversary, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones enticed the annual [...]

Forty years after it first aired, the premiere of 'Soundstage' has found a new life. The tribute to Muddy Waters, featuring Willie Dixon, Mike Bloomfield, Johnny Winter, Dr. John, Waters [...]

FOR A YOUNG BONNIE RAITT, appearing on one of the first episodes of WTTW's 'Soundstage,' was a pivotal career moment. 'I was still relatively unknown nationally and to have Ken [...]

IN THE LATE '90s, women ruled the pop charts, but it took Ken Ehrlich to unite the performers and usher in a new Era of the Diva. In 1998, Ehrlich […]

It's a good thing that Ken Ehrlich has already cleared his calendar to receive his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Jan. 28, because there's precious little downtime [...]

He can laugh about it now, but Seven Design Works co-founder LeRoy Bennett's career as a stage designer got off to a precarious start. It was 1980 and a very [...]

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Composer Steven Price has found a unique niche scoring movies dealing with outer space. Following alien horror comedies 'Attack the Block' and 'The World's End,' his career took a much [...]

In the movie 'Saving Mr. Banks,' about the making of the 1964 Disney classic 'Mary Poppins,' Emma Thompson portrays the book's author, P.L. Travers, as an abrasive, unyielding, dour woman. [...]

In a transitional era that's been a difficult one for the record biz, 2011 has been particularly brutal. In three separate weeks, the Billboard 200 album chart has set U.S. [...]

With concert movies like 'Stop Making Sense' and 'Storefront Hitchcock,' and such soundtrack-driven pics as 'Something Wild' and last year's 'Rachel Getting Married,' music is such a major presence in [...]