Like many aspiring talents drawn to Nashville’s music epicenter, when Zach John King moved to Music City in 2021, he joined a time-honored tradition, pursuing songwriting by day and waiting tables by night. He worked at Broadway-adjacent, upscale bar/restaurant The Twelve Thirty Club off Broadway, where he’d sometimes cross paths with country artists such as […]

Two powerful hedge funds are vying to buy Reservoir Media, the publicly traded independent music publishing and recorded music business founded and led by Golnar Khosrowshahi, according to a press release from Reservoir on Wednesday. Reservoir said investors Richmond Hill Investment and Wesbild put in an unsolicited joint offer to acquire all outstanding shares at a […]

Lily Allen is keeping receipts — literally. In clips circulating online from the singer’s tour supporting album West End Girl, which kicked off March 2 in Glasgow, Scotland, she wraps herself in a dress made of fabric seemingly printed with purchases estranged husband David Harbor made for other women during their marriage, if her lyrics […]

Los Angeles-based independent musician Jesse Barrera had just bought a house and had his first child when he sat down to write “No Reservations.” It was February 2023 when Barrera released the neo-soul song and video he filmed on his iPhone to YouTube. Within a matter of months, the song became Barrera’s best-performing track on […]

On a particularly difficult writing morning, Courtney Barnett’s routine was interrupted by a praying mantis hanging upside down from her door frame. A quick internet search informed her that the sighting could symbolize she was on the right path. “There’s a million Google results of random stuff. You take what you want,” Barnett, 38, says […]