It’s no mystery that music memorabilia is a booming business. The Gibson J-160E acoustic guitar on which John Lennon wrote many early Beatles hits went for $2.5 million at an auction. Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for his iconic 1965 song “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for $2 million. And in the most valuable auction item in […]
John Kander may be close to 100 years old, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t involved with the upcoming film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Kander and the late lyricist Fred Ebb – known collectively as Kander and Ebb – composed the music and wrote the songs for the original […]
The third annual Bésame Mucho Festival lineup has been revealed with Shakira, Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, Los Tigres Del Norte and Banda MS as headliners. Set to take place in Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on Dec. 21, the one-day Latin music festival returns with a jam packed list of performers, including Juanes, Gloria Trevi, Elvis Crespo, […]
The National Music Publishers’ Association has sent a letter to the leaders of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate and House of Representatives, requesting the overhaul of the statutory license listed in the Copyright Act, which “prevents private negotiations in a free market” for mechanical royalty rates for songwriters and music publishers in the U.S. In the […]
Actor-singer-songwriter Keke Palmer and her Big Bosses Entertainment imprint have partnered with the SRG-ILS Group, which is distributed by Universal Music’s Virgin Music Group, the companies announced on Tuesday. Palmer’s first release under the new partnership will drop in early summer. Palmer, an Emmy Award-winning actor, singer-songwriter, producer, author and television host, founded Big Bosses […]