Music
Cardi B., Beyonce and Jay Z, Drake, Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino Lead MTV Video Awards
The MTV Video Music Awards are coming back to New York's Radio City Music Hall. The show is on August 20th. This crop of...
Business
Pop: Drake’s “Scorpion” Passes 1 Million Mark After 2 Weeks, Earns $4 Mil in Streaming
On "Seinfeld" they used to say, Everyone loves the Drake. No one ever explained it, but as with most things Seinfeld, the expression was...
Music
Paul Simon’s Next Album: Re-recorded Lost Gems from His Catalog Will Coincide with End of Touring
Paul Simon will issue an album of re-recorded lost gems on September 7th, to coincide with his finale of all touring for all time....
Music
Pop Music: Democratic Senator Ron Wyden Ties to Digital Outlets May Be Reason He’s Proposing Cuts to Royalties, Long Term Rights of Legacy Music...
File this under Pop Goes the Weasel.
I told you last week about Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, suddenly sponsoring his own legislation to...
Music
Drake Sells 750K Copies of “Scorpion,” Most of it Via Streaming, John Coltrane Sells 17K
Drake is number 1-- by miles.
His "Scorpion" music sold enough to register 158,000 downloads and almost 600,000 from streaming. The total according to hitsdailydouble...
Celebrity
Rocker Elvis Costello Cancels Tour He Says Because of “Aggressive” Cancer, Surgery, Rest
Elvis Costello, the great rocker-singer-songwriter-multi-tasker-galore, says today on Facebook he has an "aggressive" form of cancer. He's canceled the remainder of his current European...
Music
Get Out the Guitars: Andy Summers of The Police, Richard Thompson Star in East Hampton Live Series
Tonight at Guild Hall in East Hampton, the much anticipated Master Guitar series begins. These are live concerts featuring Andy Summers of the Police,...
Music
Best Buy Is Not Ending CD Sales Yet Contrary to Rumors: The Silver Disc Lives On
Best Buy is not stopping sales of CDs, contrary to rumors from last winter.
Even though CD sales have been minimized by downloads and streaming,...