Read Taylor Swift’s Speech on the ‘Magical, Mystical’ Art of Songwriting When Accepting NMPA Icon Award

Big Red Machine, the side project of Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner, are teasing their return, with fans speculating that Taylor Swift is involved.The duo posted a teaser on Instagram for what appears to be a new project called ‘How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last’.They’ve also launched a website, howlongdoyouthinkitsgonnalast.com, which features similar artwork as the teaser and a clock counting down.A post shared by Big Red Machine (@bigredmachineadjv)Fans were

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs Variety’s recent cover star H.E.R. announced during Sunday night’s BET Awards, the artist’s Lights On Festival will return to California’s Bay Area in September.

British singer and new dad Ed Sheeran recently shared some insight into his longtime pal Taylor Swift’s re-recording of her 2012 album Red. While chatting with The Official Big Top 40, Ed was asked when they will be recording the track for the re-record.

Ed Sheeran has confirmed that he’s already re-recorded his part on Taylor Swift‘s ‘Red’ as she prepares to release a new version of the album later this year.Sheeran collaborated with Swift on ballad ‘Everything Has Changed’ from the 2012 album, which has been re-recorded in full as part of Swift’s ambitious plan to re-record her first six studio albums to regain the copyright to her own music.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe United States is the only major country in the world where terrestrial radio pays no royalties to performers or recorded-music copyright owners of the songs they play, a situation that is largely due to the powerful radio lobby’s influence in Congress. While the more than 8,300 AM and FM stations across the country pay royalties to songwriters, they have never paid performers or copyright holders, although streaming services do.On Thursday, Reps.

Scooter Braun has opened up about tensions with Taylor Swift in a new interview. Braun purchased Swift’s longtime label, Big Machine Records, in 2019, plus the rights to the master recordings of Swift’s first six studio albums.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a 20-minute statement against the conservatorship she’s lived under for 12 years, Britney Spears sounded off before a Los Angeles probate judge on Wednesday, saying that she wants to sue her family and that she was “abused” by a previous therapist, among multiple other accusations.“I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized,” she said, during a hearing that was streamed by the court.

Scooter Braun has opened up about tensions with Taylor Swift in a new interview. Braun purchased Swift’s longtime label, Big Machine Records, in 2019, plus the rights to the master recordings of Swift’s first six studio albums.

Scooter Braun recently showed up on the cover of Variety and discussed the feud that went on between him and the pop star Taylor Swift. The controversy began when Scooter Braun purchased the label ‘Big Machine’, which originally owned the music rights to Taylor Swift’s first six albums.

Taylor Swift‘s catalogue, insisting he tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting with the singer on several occasions to discuss the matter.Speaking to Variety in an interview published last week (June 17), Braun responded to a question about his view of how the saga played out. “I regret and it makes me sad that Taylor had that reaction to the deal,” he told the interviewer.“All of what happened has been very confusing and not based on anything factual.

Scooter Braun is opening up about his controversial decision to purchase Taylor Swift's former record label, Big Machine, in 2019.In a new interview with, the 40-year-old music mogul admits he regrets how the purchase went down, which included him acquiring the master rights to Swift's first six studio albums. At the time of acquisition, Braun received major backlash from Swift fans who labeled him as a bully for buying her hard-earned work.

Scooter Braun is telling his version of the events that went down with Taylor Swift.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThree and a half years after Elton John announced his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour,” after an unavoidable pandemic delay, he has finally unveiled the closing stadium dates of that tour.

Taylor Swift is ready to revisit her hit album Red. Swift took to Instagram on Friday to announce that she'll be re-recording the 2012 album with «Taylor's Version» dropping November 19.«I’ve always said that the world is a different place for the heartbroken.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSongwriters Hall of Fame inductee Nile Rodgers was unanimously re-elected to serve a second three-year term as Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame by the SHOF Board of Directors at its annual board meeting held on June 11.A cofounder of Chic and cowriter of nearly all of that group’s songs, Rodgers has worked with a galaxy of stars over the course of his career as a songwriter, producer and deeply innovative guitarist, including David Bowie, Diana Ross,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn what is described as a major tactical restructuring of the national and regional staffs of the Epic Records Urban Promotion Department, Cynthia Johnson and Cory “Sparks” Johnson have been promoted to Vice Presidents of Urban Promotion, it was announced today by the company’s EVP of promotion, Traci Adams, to whom both will report.According to the announcement, in their new positions, the two will devise and execute Urban Radio promotion campaigns to obtain

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt is remarkable how few people know that the same person produced Bob Dylan’s three defining early albums (as well as “Like a Rolling Stone”), the first two Velvet Underground albums, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention’s debut “Freak Out” and pivotal music by jazz legends Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor (including tracks with John Coltrane), among many others.It was Tom Wilson, a visionary music producer who died in 1978 at the age of 47.He was even the man who in

The CMT Awards 2021 were held recently and the star-studded evening saw performances by Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett, Miranda Lambert and more country music A-listers. The awards honouring the best of Country Music were hosted by Kelsea Ballerini and Kane Brown.