Music Industry Moves: Kristen Burke Named Warner Music Canada President

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRepublic Records today formally launched Imperial Music, a new independent music company led by former Astralwerks executive Glenn Mendlinger that soft-launched last year.According to the announcement, the New York-based label is a new division of Republic and signs, develops and markets emerging independent artists and creators, and partners with Ingrooves Music Group for distribution services.

A new documentary set to air tonight includes accounts of how the music industry turned a blind eye to rock stars engaging in sexual relationships with teenage girls in the 1970s and 1980s. Among the musicians discussed in ‘Look Away’ are Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Guns N Roses’ Axl Rose.“There are so many stories”, director Sophie Cunningham tells Sky News.

The team behind the Lifetime documentary series Surviving Jeffrey Epstein is turning its attention to the music industry.

For anyone who has visited Tel Aviv, Israel, they know when it’s time to head back to the states, it’s about a 3 hour wait in line at the airport due to security clearances.

Jennie Punter At the past two Toronto festivals, features from a new wave of Indigenous filmmakers — notably Jeff Barnaby’s “Blood Quantum,” Tracey Deer’s “Beans,” Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open” (co-directed with Kathleen Hepburn) —found acclaim and went on to connect with buyers and audiences beyond the borders of Canada.Poised for similar traction, this year’s Toronto slate spotlights the past, present and future of Indigenous filmmaking across the

JoJo Mason is revving up the engine in the brand new music video for his feel-good track “Broken Umbrella”.

Motown Records and rapper/songwriter YoungBoy Never Broke Again have announced a global joint venture with his Never Broken Again, LLC record label.

Michele Amabile Angermiller Jeff Rabhan (pictured), the music industry veteran who spent the last decade as chairman of the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University, has joined the Los Angeles Academy of Artists and Music Production (LAAMP) as executive director.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy, Berklee College of Music Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship and Arizona State University have announced the launch of the “Women in the Mix Study,” which will survey women and gender-expansive people working in the American music industry to better understand their roles and realities within the field.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRCA Records has announced the appointment of Carolyn Williams to the newly created role of executive vice president. According to the announcement, she will work with RCA’s executive team to oversee the company’s artist and label brand-management and marketing operations.

The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has died at age 80.

In partnership with Music Matters AcademyMusic industry leaders from Spotify, TikTok and YouTube will be sharing their knowledge at the Music Matters Academy, a free online series of panels that will launch later this month.The Music Matters Academy hopes to give musicians and industry professionals an insight into how the music business works – from touring to distribution to publishing – through eight free-to-attend virtual panels, workshops and chats held across three months.Music Matters

Moving forward. Jana Kramer isn’t letting her past hold her down after her ex-husband Mike Caussin was spotted hanging out with another woman weeks after their divorce was finalized.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSiriusXM and TikTok launched TikTok Radio (located on channel 4) at noon ET on Friday (August 20), which seems to be a way for people who have satellite radio but can’t figure out TikTok to hear the top songs trending on the wildly popular platform.

Mike Richards is stepping down from his just announced role as “Jeopardy!” host in the wake of the controversy that erupted when sexist and offensive comments he made in a 2014 podcast recently resurfaced.

Guy Lodge Film CriticAnyone who has attended any public events in Canada in recent years will likely be familiar with the practice of land acknowledgement: a solemn formal statement, recited before sports matches, film festival screenings or simple school assemblies, that historically contextualizes the very land on which the crowd is gathered, and admits a debt to the Indigenous people who first owned it.Depending on the delivery, it can sound like a formality, said and heard so routinely that

Madonna has announced a new deal with Warner Music that will see the major in charge of her entire catalogue, recordings and songs.The deal reunites Madonna with what was her long-time label from the 1980s to the 2000s.

Justin Bieber spent the weekend with his wife Hailey in Canada. They were visiting his father and siblings while celebrating his baby sister Bay's third birthday.