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
May 7, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
By Lyndsey Parker, Yahoo Music | Following last weekend’s historic American Idol at-home top 20 show, this... Read More → REPORTS: Quarantined contestant Just Sam breaks down on ‘American Idol’: ‘I just wish I had, like, one person here’
By Maria Puente, USA Today | A legal battle between two superstars – aging music producer Quincy Jones and... Read More → REPORTS: Quincy Jones vs. Michael Jackson estate: Court strips Jones of $9.4 million in royalties
April 16, 2020| Reports| Barb Dye
Last week we reported that musician Lionel Young had four instruments stolen from his car which was parked in... Read More → REPORTS: Go Fund Me Set-up for Lionel Young
By J. Kim Murphy, Variety | “This is a total step up,” Ryan Tedder says of the impending return of... Read More → REPORTS: ‘Songland’ Judges Face Season 2 Like They’re ‘Coming Off a Hit Record’
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