Tina Turner has sold the rights to her music catalog spanning six decades — including songs "What's Love Got to Do With It" and "The Best" — to music publishing company BMG.The legendary singer has also sold the artist's share of her recordings, her music publishing writer's share, neighboring rights and name, image and likeness as part of the deal, according to BMG, which did not disclose financial terms. "Tina Turner's […]
Sting and Eric Burdon got together in Athens on Friday to celebrate the former Police bassist’s 70th birthday under the Acropolis. The two English musicians are no strangers to Greece. They have both played live in Athens numerous times in the past 30 years. Sting first played live in Athens with his former band, the legendary Police, in 1979 in one of the first rock concerts ever held in the city, held in Sporting […]
Coldplay has premiered the video for “My Universe,” their new collaboration with BTS on YouTube. The “My Universe” video is set in the distant galaxy of The Spheres where music is forbidden, but BTS, Coldplay and an alien supergroup called Supernova 7 unite via hologram to defy the ban. Sung in English and Korean, the new track has both bands singing about the endless possibilities of love, utilizing cosmic analogies and an out-of-this-world […]
Nelson gathers his real-life family and the Family Band for a new album of cover songs and Nelson classics. Titled The Willie Nelson Family, the LP features the country music stalwart’s interpretations of George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” and Kris Kristofferson’s “Why Me,” along with updated takes on “Family Bible” and “Heaven and Hell.” Due November 19th, the album includes some of Nelson’s final recordings with drummer Paul English, who died in 2020, […]
The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards took place on Sept. 12, returning to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. after last year’s socially distanced event. Doja Cat hosted the night and performed. The stacked list of performers also included Camila Cabello, Chlöe (of Chloe x Halle, making her solo debut), Jack Harlow, Justin Bieber, Kacey Musgraves, The Kid Laroi, Lil Nas X, Machine Gun Kelly, Olivia Rodrigo, Ozuna, Shawn Mendes, Tainy and Twenty […]
Radiohead is teaming up with Epic Games for Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition — an interactive experience coming to PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac in November as part of the band’s upcoming Kid A Mnesia release. Kid A Mnesia is a commemorative rerelease of Radiohead’s iconic albums Kid A and Amnesiac, along with a third, new album — Kid Amnesiae — of unreleased material from the two original albums’ recording sessions. According to the announcement, the Kid A Mnesia: Exhibition for PlayStation will […]
Duran Duran celebrate their longevity on “Anniversary,” the latest single from their upcoming album Future Past. Paired with a visualizer, the track opens with their signature New Wave sound — a barrage of synths and guitar — before Simon Le Bon enters: “Come celebrate this union/Come holy and unchained.” “‘Anniversary’ is a special song for us,” John Taylor said in a statement. “Obviously we were conscious of our own impending 40th anniversary […]
Paul McCartney will tell the stories behind 154 songs he wrote throughout his career in his upcoming book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, due out November 2nd. The tunes (detailed below) include titles from his work with the Beatles, Wings, and his own solo recordings. It also includes the words to an unrecorded Beatles song, “Tell Me Who He Is,” from the early Sixties; McCartney discovered the handwritten lyrics in a notebook while researching […]
Madonna has announced a campaign to reissue several of her landmark albums in deluxe editions, the result of a new publishing deal with Warner Music Group. The series will partially commemorate the 40th anniversary of Madonna’s debut singles, 1982’s “Everybody” and “Burning Up.” Also today—Madonna’s birthday—the label Italians Do It Better has released a compilation of Madonna covers executive-produced by Johnny Jewel. Head here to listen. In a press release about the […]
