Kanye West believes God told him to run for president, the rapper reveals in an interview published Wednesday in which he claims no longer to support Donald Trump and voices doubt over Democrat challenger Joe Biden’s ability to unite black voters.
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Just after record producer Lij Shaw got a certificate for his work on a Grammy Award winner, Nashville sent him a cease-and-desist letter, citing a city law prohibiting home-based businesses from providing client services in their home. That 5-year tussle may end tonight.
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Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and help herself focus.
Read moreEagles songwriter Don Henley urged Congress on Tuesday to “Take It to the Limit” to protect artists from online pirating, wading into a copyright fight pitting Hollywood and the recording industry against big tech platforms like Google’s YouTube.
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Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album that sparked several careers, died Sunday.
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Disease trackers are calling a choir practice in Washington state a superspreader event that illustrates how easily the coronavirus can pass from person to person.
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Madonna on Thursday said she has recovered from the coronavirus, which forced her to pull out of a string of concerts in Paris in February and March.
Read moreThe voice is strong, and the words are resolute: “Let’s protect ourselves to save our family and our country; let’s stop the public gatherings.” The singer is 9 years old.
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A California appeals court on Tuesday sliced the $9 million awarded to music producer Quincy Jones as royalties for producing several of pop legend Michael Jackson’s records down to just over $2.5 million.
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The Sixth Circuit breathed new life into a contentious copyright dispute between Don Everly and the successors of his late brother, Phil Everly, over authorship of the duo’s 1960 hit, “Cathy’s Clown,” which went on to become their best-selling single.
Read moreThe owner of a copyright for a song called “Phone Sex” cannot pursue his claims that the song “Girl 6” — performed by Prince for Spike Lee’s film of the same name — infringed on the copyright, a federal court in New York ruled, finding the owner is barred from relitigating claims that he previously lost in court in Florida.
Read moreTwo musicians sued University City, Missouri in federal court, claiming its recent enforcement of an ordinance barring public performance of music in the traditional busking site called the Delmar Loop is unconstitutional.
Read moreA federal court in Colorado denied an internet service provider’s motion to dismiss record companies and music publishers’ copyright claims, finding they have sufficiently pleaded that the internet provider made money by tolerating the piracy of copyrighted songs and drew its subscribers by advertising that it offered the speed to “download just about anything.”
Read moreThe 11th Circuit on Thursday put an end to a copyright dispute between the designer of late Pantera frontman Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott’s iconic guitar and the manufacturer he claims stole his design, finding the designer waited too long to sue.
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Rapper and singer Post Malone filed a copyright lawsuit in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to extinguish claims filed earlier in the day in Los Angeles by a Canadian musician who says he’s been denied credits for playing on an all-night jam session that birthed the 2019 hit pop song “Circles.”
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A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims from Tom Petty’s widow that he and other recording artists were owed proceeds of a music label’s massive insurance settlement following a 2008 fire that destroyed several master recordings.
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A French orchestra has found a way around the coronavirus lockdown to record a 51-instrument rendition of Ravel’s Bolero. One by one.
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Bill Withers, who wrote and sang a string of soulful songs in the 1970s that have stood the test of time, including ” Lean on Me, ” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” has died from heart complications, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. He was 81.
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