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Audio Up, Jingle Punks exec Jared Gutstadt accused of rape by songwriter in new lawsuit
1 week, 4 days ago

Audio Up, Jingle Punks exec Jared Gutstadt accused of rape by songwriter in new lawsuit

LA Times  

A new lawsuit accuses Jared Gutstadt, an L.A. music publishing and podcast executive who founded the firms Audio Up and Jingle Punks, of raping and assaulting one of his company’s songwriters. In the suit, filed Dec. 31 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Mary Koons, alleges that Gutstadt subjected her to “years of psychological manipulation, physical violence and sexual abuse.” Those …

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Cruz Beckham, 19, visits popular Rio beach with girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, after hitting back at critics by claiming 'Jesus is also a nepo baby'
1 week, 5 days ago

Cruz Beckham, 19, visits popular Rio beach with girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, after hitting back at critics by claiming 'Jesus is also a nepo baby'

Daily Mail  

The inevitable accusations of nepotism surrounding Cruz Beckham and his latest musical endeavour were swept aside on Sunday as the young musician ventured out in Rio de Janeiro with his Brazilian girlfriend. The inevitable accusations of nepotism surrounding Cruz Beckham and his latest musical endeavour were swept aside on Sunday as the young musician ventured out in Rio de Janeiro …

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Meet Amy Allen, the songwriter behind the music stuck in your head
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Meet Amy Allen, the songwriter behind the music stuck in your head

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amy Allen might not yet be a household name, but her work lives in your brain rent-free. That just goes without saying,” said Julia Michaels, another hit songwriter, artist and collaborator on “Short n’ Sweet,” of Allen. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard …

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Sabrina Carpenter's songwriter Amy Allen writes the pop music stuck in your head
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Sabrina Carpenter's songwriter Amy Allen writes the pop music stuck in your head

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. That just goes without saying,” said Julia Michaels, another …

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Key changes, karaoke and the importance of timing: The 2025 Grammys roundtable
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Key changes, karaoke and the importance of timing: The 2025 Grammys roundtable

LA Times  

Thoughts on the visual appeal of musical waveforms. Our panelists: • Songwriter Amy Allen, 32, who’s nominated for songwriter of the year for her work with Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo and Koe Wetzel; song of the year for Carpenter’s “Please Please Please”; album of the year for Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet”; and song written for visual media for “Better Place,” …

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Sabrina Carpenter brings ‘Short n’ Sweet’ — and special guest Christina Aguilera — to Crypto.com Arena
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sabrina Carpenter brings ‘Short n’ Sweet’ — and special guest Christina Aguilera — to Crypto.com Arena

LA Times  

Sabrina Carpenter performs in June in New York. In late 2022, Sabrina Carpenter was a hard-working Disney Channel journeyman just getting out from beneath the pop-culture ignominy of having been cast as the bad-guy “blond girl” in Olivia Rodrigo’s instant smash of a Gen Z heartbreak ballad, “Drivers License.” Two years later, Carpenter arrived at Crypto.com Arena on Friday night …

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Review: In ‘The World According to Allee Willis,’ a late pop genius makes her own spotlight
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Review: In ‘The World According to Allee Willis,’ a late pop genius makes her own spotlight

LA Times  

At her height, all the record labels wanted songwriter Allee Willis. She was a prolific, pioneering music legend, artist and designer who turned her candy-colored life into an ongoing act of next-thing expression while generations of listeners made her hits — including Earth Wind & Fire’s “September” and the “Friends” theme “I’ll Be There for You” — the endlessly repeatable …

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The Latin Grammys are almost here for a 25th anniversary celebration
1 month, 4 weeks ago

The Latin Grammys are almost here for a 25th anniversary celebration

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Édgar Barrera — the producer and songwriter known for …

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Eminem, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A. and Janet Jackson get Songwriters Hall of Fame nods
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Eminem, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, N.W.A. and Janet Jackson get Songwriters Hall of Fame nods

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Eminem, Boy George, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Janet Jackson, the Doobie Brothers, N.W.A. The Hall annually inducts performers and non-performers alike, and the latter category this year includes Walter Afanasieff, who helped Mariah Carey with her smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You;” Mike Chapman, who co-wrote Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield;” and Narada Michael …

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Ella Jenkins, celebrated songwriter and ‘First Lady of Children’s Music,’ dies at 100
2 months ago

Ella Jenkins, celebrated songwriter and ‘First Lady of Children’s Music,’ dies at 100

LA Times  

Ella Jenkins, the prolific, multigenerational musical pioneer who became known as the “First Lady of Children’s Music,” died Saturday. She started creating songs for children while volunteering at a Chicago recreation center, guided by the belief that music was not an entity in itself, but “a way of helping children learn a bit about themselves and appreciate who they are.” …

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Salman Khan gets fresh threat over song naming Lawrence Bishnoi
2 months ago

Salman Khan gets fresh threat over song naming Lawrence Bishnoi

India Today  

Bollywood actor Salman Khan has received a fresh threat from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang over a song linking him with the notorious gangster. The threat was made in reference to a song that allegedly links both Salman Khan and Lawrence Bishnoi, saying that the songwriter would face severe retaliation within a month. This incident adds to a series of threats …

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Tyka Nelson, songwriter and singer who was Prince’s only full sibling, dies at 64
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2 months ago

Tyka Nelson, songwriter and singer who was Prince’s only full sibling, dies at 64

LA Times  

Prince’s younger sister Tyka Nelson, who was involved in the protracted legal battle over the performer’s multimillion-dollar estate, has died. “It’s time 4 a new direction / It’s time 4 jazz 2 die / 4th day of November / We need a Purple high” Her cousin Charles “Chazz” Smith also confirmed her death, writing on Facebook: “Our family is very …

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Bob Dylan review, Bournemouth: Folk-rock’s finest songwriter seems to exist beyond music
2 months, 1 week ago

Bob Dylan review, Bournemouth: Folk-rock’s finest songwriter seems to exist beyond music

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The tour is primarily a celebration of his 39th …

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One Direction's Liam Payne was a prolific songwriter and a troubled star. We look back at his musical legacy
2 months, 3 weeks ago

One Direction's Liam Payne was a prolific songwriter and a troubled star. We look back at his musical legacy

ABC  

Singer Liam Payne, who rose to international stardom with boy band One Direction, has died aged 31 after falling from a third storey balcony at a hotel in Buenos Aires. Liam Payne dies aged 31 Photo shows Liam Payne leads into microphone Former One Direction member Liam Payne has died outside a hotel in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, police …

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How songwriter Amy Allen became ‘the first ask for anybody in pop right now’
2 months, 3 weeks ago

How songwriter Amy Allen became ‘the first ask for anybody in pop right now’

LA Times  

As a songwriting student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid-2010s, Amy Allen had a teacher whose ideas about lyrics included the conviction that words must not be improperly stressed. Sometimes it’s a daffy, hard-to-parse turn of phrase like “That’s that me espresso”; sometimes it’s an unexpected burst of profanity like the “motherf—” Carpenter drops in “Please Please …

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Jeff Buckley
3 months ago

Jeff Buckley

ABC  

"Grace is what matters in anything" "It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, it keeps you from destroying things to foolishly. The music media's focus on his connection with his estranged father Tim Buckley and the hype that was building around him as a new artist, created a heightened air of expectation ahead of the release of …

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Remembering singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson
3 months, 1 week ago

Remembering singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson

NPR  

Remembering singer, songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson, who died Sept. 28, was a Rhodes Scholar and an Army Ranger before taking a chance at songwriting. GROSS: Well, I'd like to close with another song from your new CD, "The Austin Sessions." His new CD, "The Austin Sessions," features new versions of his best-known songs, including the song that's quoted …

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Singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88
3 months, 1 week ago

Singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88

ABC  

US actor and singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson has died aged 88. Kristofferson, who was from Texas, was known for many songs including Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Help Me Make it Through the Night, For the Good Times and Me and Bobby McGee. Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known when performed by others, whether Ray …

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J.D. Souther, songwriter behind country-rock hits by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78
3 months, 3 weeks ago

J.D. Souther, songwriter behind country-rock hits by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78

LA Times  

Souther, the singer-songwriter who co-wrote twangy yet debonair hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt that helped define the Southern California country-rock sound of the mid-1970s, has died. Souther — whose best-known songs include the Eagles’ “New Kid in Town” and “Heartache Tonight,” Ronstadt’s “Faithless Love” and his own “You’re Only Lonely,” which gave him a top-10 pop hit in …

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‘My Heart Will Go On’ and ‘Tears in Heaven’ songwriter Will Jennings dies at 80
4 months ago

‘My Heart Will Go On’ and ‘Tears in Heaven’ songwriter Will Jennings dies at 80

LA Times  

Will Jennings attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York in 2006. His best-known pop classics include Whitney Houston’s “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” Barry Manilow’s “Looks Like We Made It,” Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” and Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven,” the latter of which earned him the Grammy Award for song of the year — his …

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Do YOU have what it takes to be the next Harry Styles? Simon Cowell's right-hand man who penned One Direction and Ariana Grande's biggest hits tells all as he reunites with media mogul to find the nex
5 months, 1 week ago

Do YOU have what it takes to be the next Harry Styles? Simon Cowell's right-hand man who penned One Direction and Ariana Grande's biggest hits tells all as he reunites with media mogul to find the nex

Daily Mail  

Simon Cowell's right-hand man has revealed the secrets behind the music mogul's brand new talent show which aims to find the next big boy band. American songwriter and record producer, Savan Kotecha, 45, who's worked with the talent boss for the past 26 years, told MailOnline Simon has reunited his trusted team of experts to assist him throughout the process, …

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Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Bob Weir will honor Robbie Robertson at the Forum
5 months, 1 week ago

Eric Clapton, Van Morrison and Bob Weir will honor Robbie Robertson at the Forum

LA Times  

Robbie Robertson will be honored with an all-star tribute concert at Inglewood’s Kia Forum on Oct. 17. Eric Clapton and Van Morrison are among the classic-rock heavyweights who will pay tribute to the late Robbie Robertson at an all-star tribute concert set for Oct. 17 at Inglewood’s Kia Forum. “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson,” as …

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‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ closed out Trump’s convention speech. The songwriter says he didn’t want it played
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Hold On, I’m Coming’ closed out Trump’s convention speech. The songwriter says he didn’t want it played

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As Donald Trump wound down his rambling 93-minute speech on …

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Johnny Cash's new album is nostalgic and comforting, even if it's not his best work
6 months, 1 week ago

Johnny Cash's new album is nostalgic and comforting, even if it's not his best work

ABC  

If you're already done with the 20 best albums of the year so far, we've got another five cracking LPs for you to dig into below. Johnny Cash — Songwriter Johnny Cash's new album Songwriter is comprised of vocal sessions from the early 90s and new music recorded recently. For fans of: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard — Dan …

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