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In June 1973, Aerosmith were a busted flush. Their first, self-titled album--released just six months before--had sold barely 30,000 copies, and Columbia Records president Clive Davis, who had signed the [...]

Mike Grimes likes to know what his customers are listening to. When you walk into Grimey's record store and he's there, you might find yourself getting engaged in a conversation [...]

THE NEW YEAR is just a few weeks old and John Fogerty is driving with his wife and manager, Julie, along a stretch of California highway. But as the road [...]

CROWDED HOUSE'S RETURN five years ago was certainly a welcome one. The Australian-formed group had been dormant since 2016, when it played four shows at the Sydney Opera House and [...]

The Allman Brothers Band's 1971 double album At Fillmore East is often, and rightly, proclaimed rock's greatest live release. More than 50 years on, it still sounds fresh, inspired and [...]

Detouring from the release of a series of ambient albums and orchestral reworks of classic tracks, Moby's 22nd solo album, Always Centered at Night, embraces, not his past music, but [...]

The article discusses the life, career, and accomplishments of American rapper Yo Gotti. Topics explored include his initial involvement in the music industry in the 1990s, the establishment of his music label Collective Music Group (CMG), and brief details about his family background, personal wealth, business strategies, and advice to young people in Memphis, Tennessee.

Hollywood and Vine has always been an intersection of dreams, the sidewalks studded with the names of movie stars, the Pantages and El Capitan theaters just up the way, the [...]

His serious success began with The Joker. As Steve Miller celebrates that classic album's 50th anniversary with an expansive new box set, he reflects back on how it all began [...]

Record label Sarah was almost militantly sensitive. The next logical step after Postcard Records' 'worldliness must keep apart from me' defiantly innocent ethos, its roster (The Field Mice, Heavenly, The [...]

Cast a glance at the British music industry of 2023, and it won't take long to find Cre8ing Vision's fingerprints. The social enterprise, established in 2010 by co-directors Kwame Kwaten, [...]

As I was preparing our annual Records to Die For feature for 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it occurred to me that at such a moment, 'Records [...]

Syd Barrett and Nick Drake recorded their last albums in, respectively, 1970 and 1972, Soon, they were firmly established as the archetypal lost boys, their bodies of work slender. And [...]

Throughout their 30-year career, Baltimorebased experimental electronic music couple Matmos have gained notoriety for their unconventional use of sampling. Across 14 albums, dating back to their 1997 self-titled debut, M.C. [...]

The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well - as [...]

As a founder of such industry tent poles as Sample Magic, Attack Magazine, Audiaire and Principle Pleasure studios, Sharooz Raoofi has already left a sizable footprint on the music production [...]

NEWS PHIL COLLINS VINYL BOX HAS ALL SIDES COVERED Aspecial edition 5LP vinyl boxset of Phil Collins’ fifth solo studio album Both Sides is set for release on 20 September [...]

Several features this month represent the broad mix of how we cover classical music, which itself is based on the wide variety of what the recording industry offers to those [...]

June saw the Royal Academy of Music’s Jazz Department collaborate with the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music for a special recording of late jazz trumpet legend Kenny Wheeler’s [...]

CONTRIBUTORS: Stuart Andrews, Barry Collins, Tim Danton, Jon Honeyball, Nicole Kobie, Dick Pountain, Nik Rawlinson, Davey Winder They say a week is a long time in politics, but it is [...]

Exane BNP Paribas upgraded Universal Music Group to Outperform from Neutral with a EUR 27.50 price target. The company's 'weak' Q2 results have created an attractive entry point, the analyst [...]

MUSIC Mercury Prize: Album of the Year 8.00pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer While Mercury Prize ceremonies of years past featured live turns from all nominees, 2024's offering has been [...]

7.00pm Great American Railroad Journeys 4/10 Series 2. In Colorado, Michael Portillo follows in the footsteps of 19th-century east coast men who came here to experience life as a cowboy. [...]

Edgar Bronfman Jr. has dropped out of the bidding process for Paramount, ending a months-long saga for control of the media giant. “Tonight, our bidding group informed the special committee [...]

BY CATHY APPLEFELD OLSON CLIVE DAVIS WAS feeling proud. In early April, the chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment addressed a gathering of more than 500 members of the [...]

Paramount announced a merger with Skydance Media in July. The deal, however, had a 45-day period that allowed Paramount to seek other bidders. Cue in Edgar Bronfman Jr., ex-CEO of [...]

AWS CEO Matt Garman shared his thoughts during an internal fireside chat held in June. Business Insider obtained a recording of the meeting. Garman's comments were a kind of advisory [...]

Media investor Edgar Bronfman Jr. is poised to submit a competing bid for Paramount Globaland its parent company National Amusements Inc., which is expected to come in higher than the [...]

Shares of Paramount Global jumped more than 7% on Thursday after (https://www.wsj.com/business/media/edgar-bronfman-prepares-bid-for-paramount-parent-national-amusements-3380872a) The Wall Street Journal reported that Edgar Bronfman Jr., the former chief executive of Warner Music Group, is [...]

IN THIS ISSUE Yearning for Redemption Colin Grant Bob Marley: One Love a film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green “They were nobodies,” recalled the record producer Chris Blackwell of the [...]

Byline: Nina Miyashita 'This year has already been really special, now this is going to make it even more memorable.' Lining the metaphorical walls of the hallowed Australian Recording Industry [...]

Meta (META) and Universal Music Group (UMGNF) announced an expanded global, multi-year agreement that will further evolve the creative and commercial opportunities for UMG artists and Universal Music Publishing Group [...]

BY WINSTON CHO A scene from the strike: AI protections were a key issue in talks during the Writers Guild’s 148-day work stoppage in 2023. (STRIKE: MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES.) The [...]

(https://thewrap.com/tag/crunchyroll) Crunchyroll, the Sony-backed streaming service dedicated to anime, has surpassed 15 million monthly paid subscribers. For comparison’s sake, the NBCUniversal-owned Peacock reportedly had (https://variety.com/vip/survey-one-third-peacock-users-still-subscribe-for-free-1235984043/) 34 million paid subscribers in [...]

Disney touted its first-ever quarter of streaming profitability across its three streaming services, recording a profit of $47 million in its third quarter of 2024, compared to a loss of [...]

Absolutely some of the greatest jazz-funk-Latin-soul albums of the 70s, that's what. Daryl Easlea discusses the group's seminal 70s album output with original member Lonnie Jordan. For those who have [...]

Warner Classics’ 45-CD compilation of Simon Rattle’s recordings with the Berlin Philharmonic encompasses a time of transition for both conductor and orchestra and the classical music industry as a whole. [...]

THE REGULARS / Coda 9 AUGUST 1958 CLIFF RICHARD SIGNS WITH EMI A fresh-faced Cliff Richard, aged just 17, puts pen to paper to ink his first record deal with [...]

Apollo (APO) announced that, on behalf of its affiliated and third-party insurance clients and other investors, it has provided a $700 million capital solution to Sony Music Group, an affiliate [...]

JPMorgan lowered the firm's price target on Universal Music Group to EUR 33 from EUR 37 and keeps an Overweight rating on the [...]

Deutsche Bank lowered the firm's price target on Universal Music Group to EUR 32 from EUR 33 and keeps a Buy rating on the [...]

Wells Fargo downgraded Universal Music Group (UMGNF) to Equal Weight from Overweight with a price target of EUR 27, down from EUR 32, following quarterly results. The firm now believes [...]

Citi analyst Thomas Singlehurst downgraded Universal Music Group to Neutral from Buy with a EUR 29.50 price target saying the company's Q2 results undermine its defensive growth [...]