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Sleigh Bells, the veteran noise-pop band, is at a crossroads. The band is preparing for a grand fall tour — but with each day of grim news about surging Covid cases and the virus’s Delta variant, the pros and cons of the plan shift further, says the group’s manager Will …

You don’t need me to tell you who’s caused the most noise in the music industry this week. Yes, it’s Taylor Swift — with her eloquent, stinging response to the news that Scooter Braun has sold the master recordings to her first six albums to an investment fund in a …

While the pandemic may have thrust fiscal insecurity onto entire global industries, the music business has seen barely a week go by without seven or eight figures being splashed on a prized catalog. Most often, the player has been Merck Mercuriadis‘s UK-based Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which recently acquired pieces of …

In Rolling Stone‘s seriesAt Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Readearlier interviews here. Interscope wasn’t a wine company until Daniel Sena decided otherwise. Sena, the label’s head of strategic …

InRolling Stone‘s series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. Jaime Zeluck-Hindlin had traversed the music industry, working for a major record label, talent agency, …

InRolling Stone‘s weekly series At Work, we go behind the curtain with decision-makers across the fast-changing music business — exploring a range of responsibilities, burgeoning ideas, advice for industry newcomers, and more. Read earlier interviews here. “Major” and “independent” are normally contradictions in the music industry — but Darius Van …

This time next year, Taylor Swift might sound a little different. If you’ve been keeping up with the back-and-forth between Swift and the now-owners of her first six albums (who we’ll return to), you’ll know two things for sure: She’s not happy that she doesn’t own the recorded rights (masters) …

Michelle Lewis and Kay Hanley, two songwriters who double as the executive directors of advocacy group Songwriters of North America, describe their roles as “first responders to a fire,” their organizational missive as “building an army for when the big fights erupt,” and their career trajectory as de facto union …

While Led Zeppelin fans were busy digging up their favorite old T-shirts and nostalgia-dusted tour photos in the months leading up to the band’s 50th anniversary this year, Tim Fraser-Harding’s team at Warner Music Group was drawing up a battle plan. As Warner Music Group’s president of global catalog of …

He was eight when he got his first smartphone: an iPhone 5c in beaming lime green. He was 10 when his impromptu breakdance at a high school basketball game in Florida went viral. Now, at the grand old age of 12, Seth Vangeldren finds himself juggling marketing contracts in six-figure …