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Just days after a legal battle between Why Dont We‘s managers David Loeffler and Randy Phillips went public, the boy band is now petitioning the California Labor Commission to throw out its contract with Loeffler and management company Signature Entertainment for violating the state’s Talent Agencies Act. In a petition filed Thursday (Sept. 2), the band’s attorney, Alan Gutman, accuses Loeffler...

Lindsey Buckingham is finally opening up about his contentious firing from Fleetwood Mac in 2018, revealing the behind-the-scenes drama that he claims led to his getting booted from the band. And in classic Mac fashion, his comments have elicited a fiery response from his former bandmate and one-time paramour, Stevie Nicks. Buckingham told Rolling Stone...

When manager Walter Kolm met superstar client Maluma, the latter was a teen phenom in Colombia who drove fans into a frenzy. “I was Premios Nuestra Tierra in Bogotá, and when we walked into the place, all the girls were screaming and screaming. I asked, ‘Who are they screaming for?'” They screamed for the young...

Twenty-eight percent of Gen Z music listeners use video games to discover new music, making it just as popular as television among that demographic in terms of music discovery, according to the just-released U.S. Music 360 report by MRC Data/Nielsen Music survey, which was conducted July 12 to July 27, 2021. (MRC Data/Nielsen Music is...

Twenty years ago, hijacked planes crashed into New York’s World Trade Center Towers, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, leaving 2,977 people murdered and nearly 6,000 more wounded in the worst terrorist attack on American soil in history. Americans reacted with a myriad of emotions — shock, horror,...

Mick Brigden, a protégé of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham who helped run the management side of Graham’s music empire for decades, died on Sunday (Sept. 5) following an accident at his home in Santa Rosa, California. He was 73. Over a career that spanned more than five decades, Brigden managed some of the most...

Daddy Yankee, Karol G and Nicky Jam are confirmed for Billboard’s 2021 Latin Music Week, returning to Miami in September with a weeklong event that unites the top Latin hitmakers, influencers and industry leaders, and features live performances and conversations with superstars. Presented by Samsung Galaxy, Latin Music Week will feature one-of-a-kind performances, panels, conversations and more...

After years of speculation on what the future of The Matrix will actually look like with the return to this fantastical world of philosophy and duality, Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the first official trailer of the upcoming film. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return to reprise their iconic worlds. We had an idea that a trailer...

After years of speculation on what the future of The Matrix will actually look like with the return to this fantastical world of philosophy and duality, Warner Bros. has finally unveiled the first official trailer of the upcoming film. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return to reprise their iconic worlds. We had an idea that a trailer...

Banda MS, Carlos Vives, Karol G, Marc Anthony, Nicky Jam, Jhay Cortez, and many more, are confirmed to perform at the 2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards, set to take place Thursday, Sept. 23. Billboard and Telemundo announced today (Sept. 9) a second round of performers that also include Guadalupe Pineda, Joss Favela, Lucy Vives, Mau y...

LEGO has today officially revealed the new LEGO Super Mario 64 Question Mark Block set following a teaser video that was released yesterday. As expected, it is, in fact, a giant Question Mark Block from Nintendo‘s franchise, but the unexpected part is that it opens up to reveal a bunch of small-size levels that should...

SoundExchange, the rights management nonprofit designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute performance royalties for non-interactive digital music streams, has promoted Tim Dadson to general counsel, it was announced today. His elevation coincides with the resignation of SoundExchange’s chief legal officer, Colin Rushing, who will step down at the end of this year...

Click to watch embedded media The LEGO Super Mario universe continues to grow, this time with a new Super Mario 64 Block set to take that Nintendo love to even greater heights. At first glance, you see a simple block — the same block you’ve seen a million times throughout the franchise. Upon closer inspection, however,...

No big deal, but Rick Ross let his fans know that they didn’t want to “miss out on the most anticipated hip-hop tour in HISTORY,” in an Instagram post on Wednesday (Sept. 8) announcing the blockbuster rebooted “Legendz of the Streetz” tour. The 11-date outing that is slated to kick off on Sept. 30 in...

Kathy Mattea will take over as host of the long-running live performance radio show Mountain Stage effective immediately. The Grammy-winning West Virginia native follows Larry Groce, the co-founder and host of the program, which airs on NPR Music and West Virginia’s Public Broadcasting and celebrates folk, country, blues and other alternative music forms. Groce remains...

Merck Mercuriadis has been in the news a lot lately. When he is talking about the immense value in songs and how songwriters are woefully undervalued, he is spot on. But when he accuses the largest music publishers of not advocating for songwriters, he is dead wrong. The record needs to be set straight. For...