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Dave Brubeck’s Cool Catalog Joins Primary Wave’s Jazz Portfolio

Primary Wave Music announced on Tuesday (Nov. 18) that it has acquired a stake in both the publishing copyrights and master recordings of jazz icon Dave Brubeck through a major partnership with Derry Music Company. The partnership also grants Primary Wave a share in licensing Brubeck’s name, image and likeness, with the company collaborating closely […]

Watch Lainey Wilson Sing in Her ‘Family Guy’ Holiday Special Guest Appearance

Lainey Wilson is headed to Family Guy! The Grammy winner will take part in the Hulu exclusive holiday special, Disney’s Hulu’s Family Guy’s Hallmark Channel’s Lifetime’s Familiar Holiday Movie, which is a satire of classic holiday movies. The episode features Lois (Alex Borstein), a worker at Big Pie, who travels to a small town with […]

The AI Music Deals Are Here. They Raise Big, Complicated Questions.

Like many technologies, generative AI developed slowly — then suddenly, all at once. That’s how it looks from a music business perspective, anyway. One day a few top executives at UMG were telling me about it as a future issue — then next “Fake Drake” made news and now AI-assisted artists account for a third […]

What’s Your Favorite No. 1 Album on the Billboard 200 From 2025? Vote!

Whether you’re a fan of pop, hip-hop, R&B, Latin, country, dance, metal, K-pop or just a demon hunter in your spare time, there’s something for everyone on this year’s Billboard 200 leaders. Related What’s Your Favorite No. 1 Song on the Billboard Hot 100 From 2025? Vote! MGK Teamed Up With Daughter Casie For Baker Family […]

Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo Discuss the ‘Poison’ of Mainstream Metal and Why We’re Living in the ‘Golden Era of Heavy Music’

In the book Silence of the Lambs, author Thomas Harris opens by describing the Behavioral Science department of Quantico — where the FBI studies serial murder — as being on the bottom floor of the building, “half-buried in the earth.” Symbolically, it establishes that the darkest behaviors of the human psyche are explored almost in […]