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April 3, 2022
BMG Revenue Up 10% For 2021 To $748m
BERTELSMANN has announced its annual results, including details of BMG’s financial performance in 2021. BMG’s overall revenues grew 10.1% to $748m, while profit measure EBITDA increased by 5.4%. Among the key highlights, catalog recordings … more »
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April 1, 2022
BMG Revenue Up 10% For 2021 To $748m
BERTELSMANN has announced its annual results, including details of BMG’s financial performance in 2021. BMG’s overall revenues grew 10.1% to $748m, while profit measure EBITDA increased by 5.4%. Among the key highlights, catalog recordings … more »
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February 17, 2022
Le Sonic Takes The Top At Smooth Jazz With 'Any Moment'
Congratulations to our friends GARY LEFKOWITH and MIKE ROGERS - aka the music production duo LE SONIC. The two veteran producers and songwriters have had extensive careers. ROGERS has been 'behind the boards' for artists including … more »
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February 3, 2022
Artist Rights Alliance Hires Stacey Dansky As New Executive Director
The ARTIST RIGHTS ALLIANCE (ARA), an artist-run, non-profit organization fighting for songwriters and musicians in the modern music economy, has named former longtime VIACOM VP STACEY DANSKY as its new Executive Director. DANSKY has been plugged … more »
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August 26, 2021
The Stones Will Still Roll On Without Charlie Watts, Undertake U.S. Tour
The show must go on. The ROLLING STONES will tour the U.S. as planned next month in the wake of original drummer CHARLIE WATTS' death this week, among many online cries for the band to call it quits, or rename themselves STONES & COMPANY or the … more »
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August 24, 2021
Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones Drummer, Passes At 80
“CHARLIE’s good tonight, ain’t he?” MICK JAGGER drawled during a break on the ROLLING STONES’ 1970 live album, “Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out,” a recording of their 1969 concert at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN in NEW YORK. … more »
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August 16, 2021
Better Than Ezra Celebrates 25 Years Of 'Friction Baby' Release
Alternative-Rock Band BETTER THAN EZRA celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the APRIL 13th, 1996 release of FRICTION BABY with two sold-out live shows from the HOUSE OF BLUES in their native city of NEW ORLEANS, LA, this weekend (8/13 & 8/14). SATURDAY … more »
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August 10, 2021
Walter Yetnikoff, CBS Records Chief Who Helped Break Michael Jackson, Dead at 88
WALTER YETNIKOFF, a larger-than-life record label executive at CBS RECORDS, who led the label as President/CEO from 1975-1990 when it was the most powerful in the business with acts like MICHAEL JACKSON, THE ROLLING STONES, BILLY JOEL, BARBRA STREISAND, … more »
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December 24, 2020
Leslie West, Rock Guitar Legend For 'Mississippi Queen,' Dead At 75
LESLIE WEST (born LESLIE WEINSTEIN), the plus-sized guitarist of “MISSISSIPPI Queen” fame with his band MOUNTAIN, died on WEDNESDAY morning at 75. He had suffered cardiac arrest at his home near DAYTONA, FL, on MONDAY and was rushed to a … more »
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December 23, 2020
Leslie West, Rock Guitar Legend For 'Mississippi Queen,' Dead At 75
LESLIE WEST (born LESLIE WEINSTEIN), the plus-sized guitarist of “MISSISSIPPI Queen” fame with his band MOUNTAIN, died on WEDNESDAY morning at 75. He had suffered cardiac arrest at his home near DAYTONA, FL, on MONDAY and was rushed to a … more »