Mechanical Licensing Collective Names New CEO

Facebook announced that Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, has been appointed to the company’s board.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

At last night’s (January 30) launch party for the City of Atlanta’s first-ever biennial report on LGBTQ affairs, a special announcement was made regarding new leadership among the Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board.

A new chapter? Tom Brady drove fans wild after sharing a cryptic photo amid rumors that he is leaving the New England Patriots and moving to Nashville with Gisele Bündchen.

Sophie Gault acknowledges that it's taken long time for her band, the Broken Things, to get its first EP together. And she adds that the self-titled set -- from which the track "Johnny" is premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Jan.

"A brave new anthem for doomed youth"

Making good on news that was reported last July but not officially announced until now, Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville has appointed Rusty Gaston CEO.

Rusty Gaston has been appointed CEO of Sony/ATV Music Publishing Nashville effective immediately, Billboard has learned. As part of his new role, the music industry veteran will lead all creative and operations for the company’s Nashville division including the signing of new songwriters.“I’m completely overwhelmed and excited,” Gaston told Billboard over the phone Wednesday morning (Jan.

Nashville based singer-songwriter and mandolinist Marie Miller will release her sophomore album Little Dreams on March 27, and Billboard premieres the video for the title track today (Jan.

By Dade Hayes

Appeals court officials have shot down Harvey Weinstein’s last-minute motion to move his rape trial out of New York City.

By Geoff Boucher

Carrie Underwood's not just a cool mom, she's a regular mom. Or so she proclaimed as she walked the red carpet for the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year Awards, her six month-pregnant bump swathed in sequined Tadashi Shoji. 

Steve Moakler's next album, Blue Jeans, will be full of specific stories from the Nashville singer/songwriter's life. That includes the new single "'72 Winnebago," premiering exclusively on Billboard below and inspired by a cross-country mobile home trip he and his wife took a few years ago to support their respective careers."We were just broke newlyweds," Moakler tells Billboard.

iHeartMedia today announced a “new organizational structure” and “technology transformation” as it modernizes the company, and as often happens during such moves, layoffs are taking place. According to Country Aircheck and All Access, there have been multiple layoffs in the country and other sectors of the largest radio network in the U.S., including top roles at WPOC/Baltimore, KAJA and KRPT/San Antonio, KASE and KVET Austin, WSIX/Nashville and others.

Kalie Shorr had the year’s most acclaimed album from a freshman country artist, with the critically heralded “Open Book.” Now, after several years of being featured as an upstart on CMT or CMA package tours — and more than a few appearances on the Opry — she’s about to head out on her first real tour of her own, starting with a hometown show Jan. 31 at Nashville’s Exit/In and continuing with gigs at spots like New York’s Mercury Lounge March 16.

"t sounds like the music of my childhood distressed, and decaying".

Soccer Mommy has announced a new album, color theory. The follow-up to Sophie Allison’s Clean arrives February 28 (via Loma Vista). Soccer Mommy has also shared a new track from the album titled “circle the drain.” Watch its music video below.