July 2, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
John Moore on Facebook: These days, when you attend a protest, you almost expect the evening to end in tear... Read More → REPORTS: John Moore Reports on What Started as a Peaceful Protest re Elijah McClain
June 25, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Omar Sanchez, The Wrap | Axl Rose: After Guns N’ Roses frontman learned that ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’... Read More → REPORTS: 13 Music Stars Who Slammed Trump for Using Their Songs at Campaign Rallies
June 18, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Tim Ingham, Music Business Worldwide | On Friday (June 12), MBW spotted via an SEC filing that Tencent... Read More → REPORTS: China’s Tencent Now Controls 10% of Universal, 9% of Spotify… and Nearly 2% of Warner Music Group
By Stephen Oryszczuk, Jewish News Times of Israel | Editor’s note: I put this in because I thought our... Read More → REPORTS: Israeli-designed Instant Coronavirus Breathalyser Could be Rolled Out Globally
June 11, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard | Republic Records is banning the word “urban” from its company... Read More → REPORTS: Republic Records Bans the Term ‘Urban’ Within Label: ‘We Encourage the Music Industry to Follow Suit’
June 4, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Chris Rizik, Soul Tracks | June 1, 2020 marked the 29th anniversary of the death of the great David... Read More → REPORTS: 29 Years After the Death of David Ruffin: We Remember Greatness
Editor: Last Tuesday my son posted a big, black square on his Fb page. I didn’t know what it was for.... Read More → REPORTS: Why People Posted Black Squares on Social Media Last Tuesday (June 2nd)
May 28, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Rosanne Cash, The Atlantic | Near the end of my tour, in March, the coronavirus cases were rising back... Read More → REPORTS: Rosanne Cash: I Will Miss What I Wanted to Lose
May 21, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
Angela Whaley, COMBO board member and co-founder of Music Minds Matter, set up a ZOOM meeting for an... Read More → REPORTS: COMBO General Meeting on Mental Wellness for Musicians
By Michael Konopasek, KDVR | On Monday the Colorado Joint information Center created confusion and... Read More → REPORTS: Gov. Polis Allows Drive-in Theaters to Reopen Following FOX31 Story Highlighting Ambiguous Health Orders
By Lars Brandle, The Industry Observer | From next week, Live Nation will trial a run of socially distanced... Read More → REPORTS: Live Nation New Zealand Announces First Socially Distanced Shows
May 14, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By David Williams, CNN | Public health officials studying the Covid-19 outbreak among members of a Washington... Read More → REPORTS: How Coronavirus Spread From One Member to 87% of the Singers at a Washington Choir Practice
By Jim DeRogatis, New Yorker | Every Saturday for the past two decades, I’ve gathered with two or three... Read More → REPORTS: Remember Small, Sweaty Music Venues?
By Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone | Concert and ticketing giant Live Nation Entertainment saw a 25% drop in... Read More → REPORTS: Live Nation Is Planning for Crowdless Shows and Drive-In Concerts
By Nicholas Rivero, | I grew up in Miami, Florida, which meant living through countless hurricanes. Each one... Read More → REPORTS: Our Industry Isn’t Coming Back Like Yours Is
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