Photo Credit: Cooper Turley Instagram Cryptocurrency influencer Cooper Turley is starting Coop Records with $10 million in funding. Coop Records is backed by crypto brokers like Audius and OpenSea. Turley says he seeks to solve […]
Sony Music Entertainment’s Columbia Records has officially filed a U.S. trademark application for non-fungible token (NFT) music, visual media, and more. Though Columbia Records’ NFT trademark (serial number 97571005) just recently came to light on […]
Taylor Swift just made history at the 2022 MTV VMA’S. In addition to taking home three wins for “Video Of The Year,” “Best Long-Form Video” and “Best Direction,” she set multiple records this year with […]
Lucy Dickins, WME’s global head of contemporary music and touring. Photo Credit: WME Here’s a recap of recent music industry jobs — including both hirings and in-house promotions — as of August 26th, 2022. If […]
Defected Records has been sold to its former CEO for an undisclosed sum. Wez Saunders has acquired the transformative house music label, which is home to many of the genre’s most venerated artists, like Jamie Jones, […]
Foreign Hands are a band that you should be utterly obsessed with. Earlier this year, Foreign Hands released their incredible debut EP ‘Bleed The Dream’, a sharp burst of vicious metalcore that perked up the […]
FN Meka (Photo Credit: Capitol Music Group/UMG) Yes, robots can get canceled, too. Effectively immediately, Capitol Music Group and its parent Universal Music Group have ‘severed ties’ with virtual artist FN Meka following allegations of […]
pixabay Over the years, some of the most reliable (and most bizarre) reports about UFOs have come from the people who are actually up in the sky with the objects: pilots. Numerous unexplained reports have […]
Photo Credit: Republic Records Universal Music Group-owned Republic Records launches a new ‘Kids & Family’ label, with “major releases and partnerships” to be announced soon. New York City-based label Republic Records launched a new Kids […]
Forget conquering hills, Kate Bush’s 1985 song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” has been climbing the charts since it turned up as Max’s favorite song in “Stranger Things” season four — and […]
Marquise “Hollywood” Brown apparently has a need for speed … ’cause TMZ Sports has learned the Cardinals star was ticketed for going 71 MPH in a 50 zone just weeks before he was arrested for […]
BTS become most popular music group on YouTube Hugely popular South Korean boy band BTS has obliterated yet another record as the K-Pop stars have been officially named as YouTube’s number one most viewed artist […]
Virtual rapper FN Meka, who already has over 10 million followers on TikTok, has signed with Capitol Records and dropped a new single to celebrate. After making waves online with a series of independently-released singles […]
JJulius is the moniker of the Gothenburg-based musician and producer Julius Pierstorff, and, on, August 26 he’ll release a new album called Vol. 2. The album will get released via DFA Records in the United […]
Martha and the Vandellas – Heatwave (1963) The intensity of Heatwave never ages, and its message of love as an inescapable blend of agony and ecstasy would be repeated on many of Holland-Dozier-Holland’s greatest recordings. […]
Elton John recently declared that women are making the best music right now, which may be why he tapped none other than pop princess Britney Spears to join him for a new version of “Tiny […]
Twitch is over a decade old, and records on the platform are there to be broken. In the competitive world of streaming, records are set for the longest streams, subathons,or the most subs or views […]
Circus Records is revealing its second act. Flux Pavilion and Doctor P‘s storied label is expanding to new horizons—and new sounds—after the U.K.-based company announced plans to introduce a new imprint to the family: Circus […]
Photo Credit: Warner Records Archives Legendary Warner Bros. Records music executive Mo Ostin has died. He was 95. The music industry is now bidding farewell to a legendary label executive. After a long-and-storied career that […]
Yhdessa, a collaborative project made up of Grand River and Enrica Falqui, will release an EP on Concentric Records, the ambient record label established in 2020 by Simone Merli and Luca Calo. Yhdessa was conceptualised […]