Great Mountain Partners Launches $600M Media Fund

Great Mountain Partners launches Saranac Holdings LP

New Haven, Connecticut, where Great Mountain Partners is based. Photo Credit: Quintin Soloviev Targeting plays in music, live entertainment, and more, Concord stakeholder Great Mountain Partners (GMP) has launched a $600 million investment fund called […]

Bad Brains Taps Trust Records to Oversee NIL Rights & More

Bad Brains Trust Records NIL rights

Photo Credit: Bad Brains by Glen E. Friedman for Trust Records Influential punk band Bad Brains partners with Matt Pincus’ Trust Records to oversee recording, publishing, and name, image, and likeness rights. Influential punk band […]

TOTO Announces Summer 2026 North American Tour With CHRISTOPHER CROSS And THE ROMANTICS

TOTO Announces Summer 2026 North American Tour With CHRISTOPHER CROSS And THE ROMANTICS

TOTO, Christopher Cross and THE ROMANTICS have announced plans to tour North America next summer. Produced by Live Nation, the run will commence on July 15 in Bethel, New York at the Bethel Woods Center […]

AVENGED SEVENFOLD And GOOD CHARLOTTE Announce Summer 2026 North American Tour

AVENGED SEVENFOLD And GOOD CHARLOTTE Announce Summer 2026 North American Tour

AVENGED SEVENFOLD and GOOD CHARLOTTE will join together next summer for a North American tour, marking a rare moment that unites two massively influential bands with deep roots and friendship spanning decades. While both acts […]

Gwen Stefani Shares New Christmas Music Video ‘Shake The Snow Globe’

Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair

Gwen Stefani is celebrating a candy-colored Christmas in the new video for her song “Shake The Snow Globe.” The video drop coincides with the release of the Amazon holiday movie Oh. What. Fun., which features […]

Usher, Big Sean Invest $1M+ in Entertainment Incubator in Detroit

Usher Big Sean Detroit

Photo Credit: Nils Huenerfuerst R&B singer Usher and ‘Big Sean’ Anderson have teamed up to create a million dollar production studio and entertainment incubator in Detroit. Their $1 million investment will help create a new […]

Nacional Records turns 20: An oral history of the indie music label

Nacional Records turns 20: An oral history of the indie music label

When Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Tomas Cookman founded Nacional Records 20 years ago, the label immediately established itself as the defining voice of Latin alternative in the U.S. Cookman’s inaugural release was the luminous, self-titled solo […]

Amaarae is bringing her ‘Black Star’ experience to Hollywood

When Amaarae made her debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, she strode onto the stage with a look of fearless intent in her eyes. Clad in a militant black two-piece, […]

If Only the Music Industry Could Control AI Hits — Oh Wait

Jorja Smith vocal doppelganger Kaitlin Aragon (Photo: TikTok)

Jorja Smith vocal doppelganger Kaitlin Aragon (Photo: TikTok) Who’s gonna deliver the next crop of AI-generated hits — and who gets to control them? That’s the devilishly difficult question now confronting the music industry, which […]