Kenny MacPherson, a veteran publishing executive and artist manager who co-founded Big Deal Music Group, was formerly CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Group and worked with such acts as Radiohead, Supertramp, Ray LaMontagne, My Morning Jacket, the Blue Nile, St. Vincent and others, died on Friday in Los Angeles, according to Hits and other media reports. […]

A collection of stakeholders and music companies that control the rights to Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic for copyright infringement, telling a federal court the AI company prioritized a potential multitrillion-dollar stock opening over respecting the copyright of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. In a 28-page lawsuit filed Friday in the Northern District of […]

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Following the release of her “Expectations” remix with Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo returns to the top of the Billboard 200 with “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” earning a third total week at No. 1. Rodrigo initially released “You Seem Pretty Sad” back in June, bowing atop the chart and remaining […]

Gotta rave ’em all! Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary with an epic EDM concert at LA’s Intuit Dome with DJs Marshmello and Alison Wonderland on Saturday night. Billed as Pokémon Night Out, the show mixed together the creatures from the popular video games and trading cards with the lasers, pyrotechnics and mind-blowing visuals of EDM […]

The lawsuit claims Anthropic illegally used 274 songs by The King to train its AI model Claude