Of all the remaining multimillion-dollar music-catalog deals on the table, the rights to Pink Floyd’s recordings and name/likeness has been the most contentious. The catalog has been in play for several years with a reported asking price of $500 million, and the group was close to a deal in 2022, but the bitter infighting between […]
Midway through Weezer’s space-themed Madison Square Garden concert on Wednesday, the band stepped into a new stage design: a decaying and ugly gray planet. “It’s dying,” said Rivers Cuomo, not totally selling the line, as a Weezer flag was planted in the proverbial soil. “We need the ‘Blue Album’ to bring it back to life.” […]
Nearly a week after Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner of the Super Bowl Halftime show, New Orleans native Lil Wayne has admitted that not being chosen for the spot “broke me.” “That hurt, it hurt a lot,” he said in a statement posted on Instagram. “I thought there was nothing better that spot, […]
The Kamala Harris campaign had no advance notice that Taylor Swift would be endorsing her on Tuesday night. But now that she’s on board, the campaign is moving quickly to capitalize. The Harris merchandise page offered Harris-Walz friendship bracelets — a Swift reference — for $20. They quickly sold out. Now they are more overtly […]
Performance rights organization BMI has filed a rate court action against SiriusXM in an attempt to provide its artists “fair and appropriate fees” for music licensing deals with the radio service. In the petition, filed in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, BMI requests to determine a “reasonable rates” for SiriusXM’s public performance […]
