Month: May 2015

Nicole Fiorentino and Meg Toohey Want More Girls to Grow Up to Be Rock Stars

Bassist Nicole Fiorentino has taken the stage in front of tens of thousands of people, touring the world with The Smashing Pumpkins. But ask her to speak in front of a group of 10-year-old girls, and the raven-haired, 35-year-old’s long legs shake….


Jon Platt and Jimmy Napes win big at SESAC Awards

The 19th annual SESAC Pop Awards took place at The New York Public Library on Monday (May 4), honouring songwriters and publishers alike….


Miguel Sued 2 Years After Landing on Fan at Billboard Music Awards: Report

Remember when Miguel‘s stage leap fell short at the Billboard Music Awards two years ago?…


Pandora’s Radio Station Gets FCC Approval

Pandora can now start playing music — on the FM dial….


Selling In: How Universal Is Enlisting Rising Artists for Ads and TV

Levi Lennox, a young British hip-hop producer, makes a lot more music than his pop-star clients such as Wiz Khalifa, YG and ex-One Direction singer Zayn Malik will ever use. So he turns over many of his unreleased instrumentals to a new record label, Block, which slaps new vocals on them and sells them to commercials,…


BandPage Partners With StubHub to Place Additional Offers in Search Results

BandPage, the platform that aims to be a one-stop destination for artists’ web presences that has raised $27.6 million in funding to date, has announced StubHub as its newest partner this morning….


New Skirball Exhibit Looks Back at the Rock & Roll Life of Promoter Bill Graham

It is commonplace nowadays for promoters, particularly those of the EDM persuasion, to be better known than the artists on their line-ups. Half a century ago, legendary promoter Bill Graham inadvertently started this trend….


Why Dr. Dre Isn’t A Billionaire Yet

Dr. Dre ranked second on last year’s Forbes Five list of hip-hop’s wealthiest artists with a net worth of $550 million. Yet a year later, after selling Beats to Apple for $3 billion, his fortune sits at $700 million in this year’s accounting….


Apple Said To Be Without Key Music Deals Weeks Ahead of Rumored Streaming Service Launch

A June launch of Apple’s new subscription service is going down to the wire. Industry sources say Apple does not have the necessary licensing deals a month before the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that will take place in San Francisco from June 8th to 12th….


Days after its demise, Grooveshark is back

There are more free, legal ways to stream music over the Internet than ever, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Grooveshark finally go offline after more than half a decade of legal battles and controversy. I had always just assumed that Grooveshark would be around forever, fighting the good fight and…