Whitney Houston’s estate is telling fans they should “brace for the worst” if they choose to watch Lifetime’s Angela Bassett-directed biopic, which premiered on Saturday. The family of the late…
Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr., a drummer best known for his work with folk group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, died Sunday morning, his wife Patti Mcgovern-Taylor confirmed in a Facebook post. He was 66…
With the new year already upon us and the old one in the review, here are some of the lessons 2014 taught us, along with a few fearless predictions for 2015. First the lessons: 1. Steve Barnett is a…
The four surviving original members of the Grateful Dead plan to reunite in July for three performances in Chicago that are billed as the band’s final shows. The July 3-5 shows at Soldier Field will…
Kim Fowley, the self-mythologizing musician-writer-producer who epitomized Hollywood music biz hucksterism in the ’60s and ’70s, died on January 15 after a long battle with bladder cancer. He was 75…
Film-TV music production services company Air-Edel Associates Ltd. — founded by industry icon George Martin — has completed a management buyout to part from Cutting Edge Group for an undisclosed…
At the Rock in Rio press conference at the Village recording studio in West Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, a scale model of the City of Rock, a 40-acre Las Vegas venue that looked like a kind of…
Confronted with no serious new competition, Taylor Swift's "1989" prevailed at the top of the U.S. album chart last week. In its ninth non-consecutive week at No. 1, Swift's Big Machine blockbuster…
The American Federation of Musicians has wrapped up a new contract with the movie studios and TV networks, calling for a 2 percent across-the-board wage hike and other benefits. The AFM completed…
In what amounts to Jody Gerson's first significant hire, Marc Cimino has been tapped for the newly created position of chief operating officer at the Universal Music Publishing Group. Cimino will…
