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| Date: 10/22/2024 Section: Rumor Mill Q Prime will provide label services and distribution to The Zombies for their 1960s studio recordings. The first reissue, Odessey & Oracle, will arrive early next year. The Zombies, Odessey & Oracle, Q Prime |
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| Byline: Craig Marks Date: 09/11/2024 Section: Rumor Mill “We’re celebrating, not dwelling,” Bruce Gillmer says about his company’s approach to the 40th anniversary of the MTV Video Music Awards, set for tonight at UBS Arena. HITS’ Craig Marks gets the scoop from the event’s honcho. MTV Video Music Awards, Bruce Gillmer |
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| Date: 02/05/2024 Section: Rumor Mill Taylor Swift made music history at the 66th annual Grammy Awards Sunday, becoming the first artist to win four Album of the Year trophies. She was part of an all-female winner’s circle in the Big Four categories alongside Billie Eilish, Victoria Monét and Miley Cyrus. Grammys |
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| Byline: Bud Scoppa Date: 01/30/2024 Section: Rumor Mill Before he launched indie label Mom+Pop Music in 2008, Michael Goldstone made a name for himself as an A&R exec at Epic, DreamWorks and Sire. He's best known for discovering and developing grunge standard-bearer Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine. Goldie also oversaw the double-platinum soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s 1992 film Singles, which kicked the Seattle scene into commercial overdrive, and later inked critical darling Regina Spektor. Michael Goldstone, Mom+Pop |
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| Byline: I.B. Bad Date: 08/18/2022 Section: Rumor Mill Mo Ostin was inarguably one of the most important music executives of the 20th century, a trailblazer in the business and... Mo Ostin, Joe Smith, Steve Ross, David Geffen, Bob Krasnow, Lenny Waronker, Norman Granz, Barney Hoskyns, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, A.C. Jobim, Lester Young, Sarah, Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, Mickey Rudin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Trini Lopez, Nancy Sinatra, Allan Sherman, Bob Newhart, Bill Dana, Redd Foxx, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Mike Maitland, uss Thyret, Eddie Rosenblatt, Stan Cornyn, David Berman, Murray Gitlin, Bob Regehr, Tommy LiPuma, Gary Katz, Steve Barri, Russ Titelman, Ted Templeman, Terry Ellis, Chris Wright, Albert Grossman, Chris Blackwell, Phil Walden, Herb Cohen, Seymour Stein, Quincy Jones, Tom Silverman, Irving Azoff, Joel Friedman, Henry Droz, Elliott Roberts, Bob Cavallo, Shep Gordon, Irving Azoff, Cliff Burnstein, Peter Mensch, Freddy DeMann, Arnold Stiefel, Tony Dimitriades, The Doobie Brothers, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, Gordon Lightfoot, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Seals & Crofts, Arlo Guthrie, George Benson, Randy Newman, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Tom Petty, Van Halen, Dire Straits, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Prince, Madonna, The B-52's, The Pretenders, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Ahmet Ertegun, Walter Yetnikoff, Bob Morgado, Michael Fuchs, Terry Semel, Bob Daly, Michael Ostin, Edgar Bronfman Jr., Lyor Cohen, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roger Ames, Tom Whalley |
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| Byline: I.B. Bad Date: 12/21/2020 Section: Rumor Mill I.B. Bad on the fate of the live sector, which is set to come roaring back in 2021. Michael Rapino, Jay Marciano, Rob Light, Coran Capshaw, Irving Azoff, Jeffrey Azoff, Jay Brown, Cliff Burnstein, Peter Mensch, Arthur Fogel, Bob Roux, Louis Messina, Scooter Braun, Marty Diamond, Jonathan Daniel, Bob McLynn |
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| Date: 12/17/2020 Section: Rumor Mill With vaccine distribution beginning just before the new year, touring hibernation is nearing its end; the live business is gearing up for a summer of shows in Europe and North America, favoring outdoor performances, festivals... Concerts, Touring, Live Nation, Rapino, Azoff, Marciano, Rob Light |
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| Date: 10/12/2020 Section: Rumor Mill Rumor has it Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch’s Q Prime Management is in negotiations with billionaire financier Ron Burkle to sell all or part of the company. Valuation of Q Prime... Q Prime, Burnstein, Mensch, Metallica, Muse, Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Burkle, Eric Church, Brothers Osborne |
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| Byline: Phil Gallo Date: 08/13/2020 Section: Rumor Mill Metallica co-manager Cliff Burnstein explains the deal to screen a freshly filmed Metallica concert at about 300 drive-in theaters across North America later this month. Metallica, Cliff Burnstein, Q Prime, Drive-in, Encore Live |
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| Date: 10/12/2018 Section: Rumor Mill “I wonder if we’ll be nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week,” Joe Elliott muses as the Def Leppard frontman and his band mates pose with a gold-record plaque for Mirror Ball – Live & More before the second of two sold-out shows with Journey at the Forum Sunday night. “I wonder if they serve blintzes in the Forum Club,” says preoccupied Mailboat Records topper Harold Sulman (holding plaque). "I'm sure Shelli put it on the menu." Shown missing Burnstein & Mensch, Mutt Lange and Irwin Steinberg are... |
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| Date: 02/09/2018 Section: Rumor Mill A letter spearheaded by Paradigm’s Tom Windish (pictured) calling for the Recording Academy to clean up its act and for men to stand in solidarity with their female co-workers now has the signatures of 38 male execs. |
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| Byline: Mike Bone Date: 12/15/2016 Section: Rumor Mill Quintessential industry veteran Mike Bone, who spent a chunk of the 1980s at Elektra during the prosperous and colorful reign of Bob Krasnow, shares his memories of the beloved exec, who had a lasting impact on everyone fortunate enough to work and play with him. Kras knew how to live, and live well, as Bone’s recollection vividly confirms. |
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| Date: 11/18/2016 Section: Rumor Mill As they tell it, Cliff Burnstein and Peter Mensch’s story is equal parts Zelig and This Is Spinal Tap, as they stumble upon one great band after another, while nimbly reinventing themselves whenever the winds of change threaten to blow them off the rails into irrelevance. |
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| Date: 11/17/2016 Section: Rumor Mill Flash back to early 1973, as the rock gods are about to bring together a pair of mensches, one of whom happens to bear that very surname, who will thereafter be joined at the hip... |
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| Date: 10/13/2016 Section: Rumor Mill What was the YouTube brass thinking when they hired Lyor Cohen to fill the newly created role of Global Head of Music? Cohen is without question the most negatively chronicled individual in the music business, and his Snapchat feed has made him the poster boy for pomposity. The question on everyone’s lips is “Why him?” and thus far there have been few plausible theories. |
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| Byline: nograybox Date: 09/15/2014 Section: Rumor Mill Attorney Peter Paterno represents a diverse array of artists including Metallica, Pharrell, Skrillex, Linda Ronstadt and Dr. Dre, but his corner office at Century City’s King Holmes Paterno & Berliner is more a shrine to his beloved Dodgers than his clients. Behind his desk is a framed co... |
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| Byline: nograybox Date: 07/15/2014 Section: Rumor Mill Let’s take a look at three heavyweights in what is referred to these days as the content-delivery business, aka giving the people what they want. With 120 Country stations, Clear Channel is the king of the heap at the presently vibrant format, and the iHeartRadio platform brings those station... |
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| Date: 03/18/2014 Section: Rumor Mill NEW BACKING VOCALIST: Josh Groban has changed managers from Q Prime’s Burnstein and Mensch to Diarmuid Quinn, who was the singer’s handler at Warner Bros. Records pre-acquisition. Quinn was named President of Kobalt Label Services last September. (3/18a) |
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| Date: 10/08/2012 Section: Rumor Mill I.B. BAD’S NAMES IN THE RUMOR MILL: Irving Azoff, Cliff Burnstein & Peter Mensch, Dave Holmes, Pat Magnarella, John Branca, Max Hole, David Kassler, Laura Swanson and Brenda Romano. (10/8a) |
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| Date: 10/05/2012 Section: Rumor Mill Now that the major-label sector has been essentially boiled down to a Big Two, some industry observers feel that Warner Music will be even more marginalized by Lyor Cohen’s abrupt departure last week. If Len Blavatnik and Stephen Cooper don’t replace him with a music insider, most believ... |
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| Date: 01/13/2012 Section: Rumor Mill GAME ON: As the music business gears up for 2012, hoping to build on its 2011 turnaround, the ultimate question is, who will own the year? Among those acts who are rolling into the new year with major momentum are Nonesuch/WB rock saviors the Black Keys (470k after five weeks), who came out of the s... |
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| Date: 07/19/2011 Section: Rumor Mill THE REAL MENSCH: Thanks to new Current TV corporate communications VP Jeanne Meyer for the tip via Twitter by recent net hiring @Keith Olbermann. Al Gore’s cable channel was covering the Rupert Murdoch hearings in London this morning, with Olbermann doing the commentary, when he revealed Conservative Member of Parliament Louise Mensch, one of those who grilled Murdoch, is the wife of Q Prime’s Peter Mensch, the manager of both Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica, among others, with partner Cliff Burnstein. Funny thing is, she seemed more heated about Piers Morgan than Murdoch. (7/19p) |
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| Date: 06/20/2011 Section: Rumor Mill I.B. BAD’S NAMES IN THE RUMOR MILL: Vincent Herbert, Guy O., Cliff Burnstein, Dana Dufine, Richard Palmese and Steve Popovich R.I.P. (6/20a) |
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| Date: 06/17/2011 Section: Rumor Mill As expected, considering the 460k units sold at 99 cents on Amazon MP3, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way experienced a massive drop-off in week two. Indeed, the 84% decline, from 1.108m to 174k, was the steepest of the SoundScan era—worse than 50 Cent’s Curtis in 2007 (-79%), Jay-Z’... |
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| Date: 04/02/2009 Section: Rumor Mill The fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert will honor Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder and frontman Anthony Kiedis at Club Nokia on Friday, May 8. Kiedis will be honored with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication and support of the MusiCares MAP Fund and for his commitment to help... |
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| Date: 08/01/2008 Section: Rumor Mill In the rapidly unfolding saga of Tom Whalley, whose future at Warner Music is anything but certain, the Warner/Reprise chief is said to be looking for a very rich new deal. He’s asking for this big payoff despite the fact that WB has lost 25-30% in marketshare during his seven years at the hel... |
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| Date: 04/25/2006 Section: Rumor Mill Sony got everything it wanted when Michael Jackson agreed to sell half of his 50% stake in Sony/ATV Music. First, because Jackson is no longer an equal partner, Sony no longer has to go through the headache of seeking his approval on major business decisions, as it had to do previously on any deal o... |
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| Date: 12/19/2003 Section: Rumor Mill Wonder how Saddam Hussein’s gonna celebrate Christmas Eve, hunh? Think the CIA’ll invite him to the office holiday party? What if someone actually catches the one-time U.S. government employee under the mistletoe? Well, at least he shaved that godawful beard, which made him look like a c... |
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| Date: 11/06/2002 Section: Rumor Mill How high is UP!? For Mercury Nashville superstar Shania Twain, the first album since her 14 million-selling (35 million worldwide) 1997 album Come On Over has retailers dreaming of a Country Christmas, with some pundits thinking first-week sales could approach the magic million mark when the new rec... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 06/28/2002 Section: Rumor Mill The on-again off-again project pairing Rage Against the Machine and former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell—once known as Civilian—is on again.The latest plot twist has the new band seeking a neutral third party for management of the project. Previously, the Rage boys were with Peter M... |
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| Date: 05/21/2001 Section: Rumor Mill After months and months of speculation and gossip and whatnot, the most anticipated union in rock has finally been confirmed. Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has officially linked up with three-quarters of Rage Against The Machine, according to The Los Angeles Times.OK, OK, most of us figu... |
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| Byline: Roy Trakin Date: 05/14/2001 Section: Rumor Mill Let's get ready to rumble!This week's release slate includes five albums that are set for Top Ten debuts, with all having the potential to move more than 100k.That's right, folks, it's summer Super Tuesday, with this week's big guns including Volcano's Tool, Elektra's Mis... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 01/05/2001 Section: Rumor Mill Just weeks after the collapse of Robert Sillerman's ambitious plan to create a super management entity by purchasing existing talent companies (hitsdailydouble.com, 12/12), managerial powerhouse The Firm filed suit late Thursday (1/4) against the former SFX chief, citing breach of contract and f... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 11/14/2000 Section: Rumor Mill Did Robert Sillerman and some news outlets jump the gun by announcing that the industry heavyweight on Monday (11/13) initiated his planned maneuver into the talent management world? Well, it depends on to whom you speak.Apparently Sillerman has agreed to acquire top artist management powerhouse The... |
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| Byline: Marc Pollack Date: 10/19/2000 Section: Rumor Mill Rage Against The Machine members—Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford—have vowed to continue in the wake of singer Zack De La Rocha's departure from the band."We're proud of our history and what we've accomplished musically and politically over the last nine years," said... |
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| Date: 10/04/2000 Section: Rumor Mill Insiders are surprised that German music goliath edel's negotiations to acquire a part of Artemis Records have reached an impasse, despite the success of the Baha Men, whose album has climbed into the HITS Top 10 on the strength of "Who Let The Dogs Out."The Baha Men are signed to ex-Mercury A&a... |
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| Byline: yes Date: 04/15/2000 Section: Rumor Mill The lawsuit filed by Metallica against Napster and three universities could be the beginning of a series of artist actions against the music Web site and file-sharing software distributor. It could also blow up in the band's faces.Metallica manager Cliff Burnstein told Billboard that more than 1... |
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| Date: 03/24/2000 Section: Rumor Mill The pending summary judgment in the RIAA’s suit against Napster, scheduled for delivery on Monday (3/27), and an anticipated settlement in the industry group’s suit against MP3.com may help draw the contours of the new music economy. But a lot of artists are still really pissed.MP3.com h... |
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