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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 …

Here’s an open secret: Record-label executives do not run the music industry these days. Super-fans — a fierce breed of individuals who work day jobs and night jobs, attend schools, maintain relationships and hobbies, and still find time to learn everything there is to possibly know about the artists behind …

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 …

Riding the wave of augmented-reality concerts that have flooded the music industry lately, The Weeknd announced Thursday that he will be the latest superstar to jump on the platform, debuting a new “music experience” to air exclusively on TikTok on August 7th in collaboration with X, Republic Records labels, and …

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 …

Seattle blues singer Lady A had just gotten off of work on Thursday when a bombardment of phone messages from friends, fans and producers came in all shouting the same thing: Her name had been stolen. Earlier that day, Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum — whose name had been criticized …

Latin music’s streaming surge only intensified in 2019, according to new research from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The trade body revealed Thursday that revenues for the genre in 2019 reached a new high of $554 million — roughly one-third, or 28% more than the previous year. It …