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THE BIG STORY: The long legal war over The Ramones, pitting Johnny Ramone’s widow against Joey Ramone’s brother, appears to finally be over. The leaders of the pioneering punk band weren’t actually brothers – and they also didn’t like each other very much. After they died in the 2000s, that enmity seemed to pass to […]
Indie music publisher and neighboring rights company Peermusic has made its second senior leadership change of the year, promoting Jody Farber to chief financial officer. The move was announced Tuesday by executive chair Ralph Peer II and CEO Mary Megan Peer. Farber, who joined the company in 2024 as senior vice president of finance and […]
These days, the live music business runs on red-hot fan anticipation, FOMO ticket pricing and careful cost management. The first isn’t new. After COVID, when promoters discovered how much fans would pay to see their favorite performers, tours have been marketed with more sense of event, partly to justify rising prices. At the same time, however, touring costs have spiked […]
The heat is kissing 90 degrees on a mid-October Friday in Austin, where Bobby Epstein is giving a Jurassic Park-style media tour through the perpetually under construction Circuit of the Americas (COTA) racing grounds. Standing at the head of a moving shuttle bus like a safari guide, the circuit’s chairman points to piles of dirt. […]
As we reported on Tuesday (Feb. 10), John Fogerty is this year’s recipient of the Johnny Mercer Award, the top honor given by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Fogerty joins a long list of Mercer Award recipients which includes Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Paul Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Dolly Parton, […]
As if the hype surrounding BTS‘ upcoming fifth studio album, Arirang, wasn’t already sky high after the K-pop supergroup’s nearly four-year hiatus, producer Diplo just amped things up a few more notches. When TMZ caught up with Diplo at a Super Bowl LX party on Saturday, he said the LP due out on March 20 […]
Charli XCX‘s movie era continues to cook. After taking this year’s Sundance Film Festival by storm with her mockumentary The Moment, the singer-turned-actress who has half a dozen movies in the pipeline has lined up her next big screen project. According to Deadline, Charli will be possessed by a violent, tortured spirit in director Takashi […]
John Fogerty is set to receive the Johnny Mercer Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s top honor, at the annual SHOF Induction and Awards Gala, set for June 11 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. The Mercer Award is reserved for a songwriter or songwriting team who has already been inducted into the […]
Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles lashed out at Bad Bunny‘s history-making Super Bowl LX halftime show on Monday (Feb. 9), calling the singer’s record-setting performance “pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness.” The conservative congressman wrote, that “children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating […]
Jimmy Eat World will put fans in the middle of a big celebration this summer as the group tours to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough and top-selling album, Bleed American. The Mesa, Arizona-formed alt-rock quartet hits the road June 9 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado for a lengthy trek celebrating its fourth […]
