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• Alessi Rose: ‘Lorde is my biggest inspiration’

  07-12-2025 12:30 via music-news.com
  
  Rising talent Alessi Rose reveals that Lorde has been the driving force behind her music.
  
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• Great Mountain Partners Launches $600 Million Media and Entertainment Fund, Targets Deals ‘At the Intersection of Premium Content, Audiences, and New Monetization Models’

  10-12-2025 02:13 via digitalmusicnews.com
  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 Saranac Holdings LP.GMP today disclosed the launch of Saranac Holdings, not to be confused with the existing Boise-based investor of the same name or London-headquartered Saranac Partners. According to the appropriate release, the newly minted Sara
  
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• Celebrated Opera Singer Jubilant Sykes Murdered in Santa Monica; Son Arrested by Police

  10-12-2025 01:35 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: Jubilant Sykes (Instagram)
  Opera and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death in his Santa Monica home on Monday, allegedly by his son, who is in police custody.
  Classical, opera, and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death on Monday in his Santa Monica home, allegedly by his son, who is in custody, police told KTLA. He was 71.
  Officers were called to Sykes’ home at approximately 9 PM after someone inside dialed 911 to report an assault in progress, accordi
  
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• Dynamic Duo Gene Simmons and Michael Huppe Tell Senators to ‘Close the Radio Loophole’ in America

  10-12-2025 01:32 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: Gene Simmons
  KISS’s Gene Simmons and SoundExchange President Michael Huppe call on Congress to require AM/FM radio stations to pay artists for using their music.
  A dynamic duo of KISS’s Gene Simmons and SoundExchange President and CEO Michael Huppe have forcefully called on Congress to require AM/FM radio corporations to pay artists for the use of their music. The pair spoke during a Senate Judiciary Committee Intellectual Property Subcommittee hearing today on the Amer
  
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• Trisha Yearwood, Chris Isaak Honor Raul Malo: ‘One of the Finest Voices of Our Generation’

  10-12-2025 00:04 via rollingstone.com
  The singular Mavericks frontman died at the age of 60 after a battle with cancer
  
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• Rick Astley headlines magical Nordoff and Robbins Carol Service with Katie Melua, Matt Goss

  10-12-2025 00:03 via music-news.com
  
  International pop icon Rick Astley brought a wave of festive joy to St Luke’s and Christ Church in Chelsea, London, on Tuesday 9 December
  
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• Patrick Moxey, Ultra/Payday Publishing, and Sony Music Officially End Their Years-Running Legal Battle

  09-12-2025 23:42 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: Patrick Moxey, Founder and CEO, Payday Music Publishing
  One hard-fought legal battle later, Sony Music and Patrick Moxey’s Payday Music Publishing (formerly Ultra International Music Publishing) have put their marathon dispute to rest.Both parties made that resolution official in a dismissal notice yesterday, about eight months removed from Ultra Publishing’s Payday rebranding. As we reported, the name change followed Sony Music’s purchase of Ultra Records –
  
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• Grammy-Nominated Singer Stabbed to Death, Son with Alleged ‘Mental Instability’ Arrested

  09-12-2025 22:53 via rollingstone.com
  Jubilant Sykes was found with stabbing wounds inside his Santa Monica, Calif., home after a 911 call, police said
  
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• Gene Simmons Says Artists Treated ‘Worse Than Slaves’ Because Radio Doesn’t Pay Them

  09-12-2025 22:51 via rollingstone.com
  The Kiss rocker spoke at a Senate subcommittee hearing on a bill that could finally change the way royalties are distributed for radio airplay
  
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• Bad Brains Taps Matt Pincus-Helmed Trust Records to Oversee Recording, Publishing, and NIL Rights

  09-12-2025 22:21 via digitalmusicnews.com
  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 Bad Brains has announced a partnership with Trust Records, the Matt Pincus-founded company designed to ensure classic punk and hardcore music proliferates. Under the new deal, Trust Records will continue to ensure that the band’s music remains available for
  
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• The Mavericks Frontman Raul Malo Passes Away, Aged 60

  09-12-2025 22:16 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Photo Credit: The Mavericks’ Raul Malo (Instagram)
  The Mavericks’ frontman Raul Malo, whose rich voice defined a band that brought Latin flavor to country music in the 1990s, passed away on Monday.
  Raul Malo, quintessential lead singer of the Mavericks, the group that boldly brought Latin flavor and rock vibes to country music since 1989, passed away on Monday. No cause of death has been announced, but Malo revealed back in June that he was battling Stage 4 colon cancer. He was 60.
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• Taylor Swift’s Last Album Sparked Bizarre Accusations of Nazism. It Was a Coordinated Attack

  09-12-2025 22:03 via rollingstone.com
  Data analysis of social media posts painting the singer as a Trump supporter or white supremacist revealed a network of inauthentic accounts
  
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• Watch Porridge Radio play last ever show in Glasgow

  09-12-2025 21:57 via nme.com
  Porridge Radio played their final show in Glasgow on Sunday (December 7) – check out some of the footage from the gig and the other shows on their final tour here. Read More: The Big Read – Porridge Radio: “I’ve always known that we’re the best band in the world”The Brighton band first announced their split in January, sharing the goodbye single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’. Their final EP, ‘The Machine Starts To Sing’, arrived
  
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• KISS, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait Among Trump’s Kennedy Center Honorees; Airing Slated for December 23 on CBS, Paramount

  09-12-2025 21:26 via digitalmusicnews.com
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  Trump’s Kennedy Center honorees include KISS, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, and actors Michael Crawford and Sylvester Stallone.
  On Sunday night at the 48th annual Kennedy Center Honors, President Trump took center stage to host the institution’s awards show as he continues to overhaul programming and plan renovations.
  This year’s honorees include country singer-songwriter George Strait, R&B/soul legend Gloria Gaynor, rock band KISS, and actors Michael Craw
  
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• Tributes paid after The Mavericks’ singer Raul Malo dies, aged 60: “A performer and craftsman of the highest order”

  09-12-2025 20:57 via nme.com
  Tributes have been paid following the death of The Mavericks’ frontman Raul Malo aged 60.
  The singer’s wife, Betty, confirmed on her husband’s social media that he died on Monday night (December 8).
  She wrote: “He was called to do another gig – this time in the sky – and he’s flying high like an eagle. No one embodied life and love, joy and passion, family, friends, music and adventure the way our beloved Raul did.
  “Now he will look down on us with
  
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• Christina Aguilera Will Pair ‘Very Personal’ Documentary With Equally Intimate New Album

  09-12-2025 20:54 via rollingstone.com
  The singer's career-spanning documentary film was first detailed in 2022. Now, she shares that opening up for the camera has also influenced her work in the studio
  
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• KATSEYE, a Sixty-Year-Old Hit, and the New Global Music Map

  09-12-2025 20:41 via rollingstone.com
  Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a song she’d recorded in 1962 – the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis – was suddenly climbing the charts for the first time and soundtracking millions of videos for an audience born decades […]
  
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• Spotify Starts Rolling Out Music Videos In the US and Canada

  09-12-2025 20:38 via digitalmusicnews.com
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  Spotify has started the beta launch of music videos to premium users across the U.S. and Canada after launching in dozens of other markets worldwide.
  Music streaming giant Spotify is finally rolling out music videos in a beta launch to premium subscribers across the U.S. and Canada after launching them in dozens of other markets worldwide. The initial video catalog is relatively limited, but Spotify promises that availability will grow quickly in the coming months.
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• Spotify Rolls Out Music Videos in the U.S. and Canada

  09-12-2025 20:38 via digitalmusicnews.com
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  Spotify has started the beta launch of music videos to premium users across the U.S. and Canada after launching in dozens of other markets worldwide.
  Music streaming giant Spotify is finally rolling out music videos in a beta launch to premium subscribers across the U.S. and Canada after launching them in dozens of other markets worldwide. The initial video catalog is relatively limited, but Spotify promises that availability will grow quickly in the coming months.
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• USCO Leadership Battle Rages On: Government Says Shira Perlmutter ‘Was Lawfully Removed As Register of Copyrights—Either by Mr. Blanche or by the President’

  09-12-2025 20:17 via digitalmusicnews.com
  Washington, D.C.’s James Madison Memorial Building, which houses the U.S. Copyright Office. Photo Credit: UpstateNYer
  Seven months later, the Copyright Office leadership battle is raging on – with the litigation now playing out across a district court, an appellate court, and the Supreme Court alike.We’ve covered the multifaceted dispute since USCO head Shira Perlmutter was fired in May. And for a courtroom confrontation revolving around one seemingly straightforward question &
  
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• Smokey Robinson Says Jane Doe Accuser ‘Brazenly’ Raided His Storage Unit Last Month

  09-12-2025 20:13 via rollingstone.com
  The alleged theft last month was caught on surveillance video, a lawyer for the Motown singer and his wife claims in new court filings
  
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• Watch the first trailer for ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert’: “There’s been a lot said, but never from my side of the story”

  09-12-2025 20:03 via nme.com
  The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert film has just dropped – check it out here.READ MORE: ‘Elvis’ review: Baz Luhrmann’s bold biopic of the King of Rock ‘n’ RollThe film, which is set for release next year, features long-lost footage of the legendary singer’s Las Vegas residency alongside 16mm footage from the 1972 film Elvis on Tour and 8mm film from the Graceland archive.
  The trailer begins with Richard Strauss
  
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• Watch Sigrid’s new DHL FAST-TRACK documentary

  09-12-2025 19:00 via nme.com
  In partnership with DHL
  Sigrid and DHL FAST-TRACK have unveiled a new mini-documentary that follows the Norwegian pop star as she plays two very special, stripped-down gigs.
  Earlier this year, Sigrid returned to Bergen, the city where she lived as a teenager and first began seriously writing music, to join fans on a misty walk through Fløyen Park before she performed an acoustic gig at the gorgeous Skomakerstuan Café. Two weeks later, Sigrid visited the Japanese city of Osaka for t
  
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• TikTok’s Top Global Song of the Year Is a 63-Year-Old Hit Single From Connie Francis

  09-12-2025 18:42 via rollingstone.com
  The video app reports that “Pretty Little Baby” was used over 28.4 million times across its user base, placing it on top over Jess Glynne’s “Hold My Hand” and Black Eyed Peas’ “Rock That Body”
  
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• Metallica fans given lifetime ban for scaling stadium speaker tower

  09-12-2025 17:59 via nme.com
  Two Metallica fans have been given a lifetime ban from the Optus Stadium in Perth after scaling a speaker tower during a live show.READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band aroundThe incident took place at the venue in Western Australia on November 1, as the metal icons took to the stage as part of their mammoth ‘M72 World Tour’.
  According to reports from PerthNow, a 20-year-old fan named Beau William Loch Rollings and a 23-year-old called Rory Hugh
  
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• Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello and Fender team up to release iconic ‘Arm The Homeless’ guitar

  09-12-2025 17:14 via nme.com
  Tom Morello has teamed up with Fender to release his iconic ‘Arm The Homeless’ guitar.READ MORE: Tom Morello on collaborating with his son: “I have a guitar player there who may be giving me a run for my money”Built in close collaboration with Morello himself, the axe “revives the instrument that powered decades of anthems from Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage”, according to press release.
  Every detail, from the hand-painted blue
  
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• The Mavericks Singer Raul Malo’s Final Letter to Fans: ‘You All Carried Me More Than You Know’

  09-12-2025 17:00 via rollingstone.com
  Malo, who died Monday at 60 of cancer, addressed his audience in a note read during a recent tribute show
  
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• Elvis Costello announces 2026 UK tour of “early songs”, featuring The Imposters with Charlie Sexton

  09-12-2025 16:20 via nme.com
  Elvis Costello has announced that he will be hitting the road with The Imposters and Charlie Sexton next year, and celebrating his earlier discography.
  The new run of shows will be dubbed the ‘Radio Soul!: The Early Songs of Elvis Costello Tour’ and will see the iconic singer, songwriter and guitarist head over to the UK next summer for a handful of shows.
  As the title suggests, the dates will see him concentrate on playing material from his earlier discography including the 1977 deb
  
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• Man Who Grabbed Ariana Grande on Red Carpet Removed From Lady Gaga Concert

  09-12-2025 16:10 via rollingstone.com
  After being deported from Singapore, the infamous stage crasher attempted to attend the Mayhem Ball Tour in Brisbane in a disguise, but was spotted by fans and escorted out
  
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• Inside Elliott Landy’s Iconic Photos of the Band

  09-12-2025 16:00 via rollingstone.com
  One night in 1968 in New York City, when Elliott Landy was photographing a performance by Janis Joplin with her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, he felt a tap on his back. It was their manager Albert Grossman, who also repped Bob Dylan. “He brought me into a large utility closet where we […]
  
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