NEW YORK (AP) — Marriott is getting into the music business, so to speak. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Marriott, Universal Music form partnership

A more specific choice of words, adopted by the Academy’s Board of Governors on Tuesday night, will affect the ways in which companies campaign for best original song Oscar contenders. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Why the Academy's Music Branch Tightened Up Its Live Performances Rule

One of country music’s most versatile musicians is living up to his reputation: Steve Wariner recently joined heavy-metal titans Megadeth in the studio to play steel guitar on the group’s upcoming album. In a recent interview with the Tennessean, Wariner, a blistering guitarist who has scored Number One hits with songs like… Source: RollingStone Link: Steve […]

Fetty Wap’s sleeper hit “Trap Queen” has become the top contender for this year’s Song of the Summer, but it sounds like the New Jersey rapper is wasting no time in churning out a new hit for himself with his latest track, “Boomin.’” Harder than the island-y feel of “Trap Queen”… Source: RollingStone Link: Fetty […]

A new box set will collect the entire “known” output of early punk label Ork Records put out in the mid-Seventies, including songs by Television, ex-Television guitarist Richard Hell, Big Star and Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton, Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome and critic and former Rolling Stone contributor Lester… Source: RollingStone Link: Early Television, […]

Forty-seven years after his debut album, James Taylor has finally scored his first Number One record on the Billboard 200. The singer’s latest, Before This World, sold 97,000 copies in its debut week, giving the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee his first ever chart-topping album. In addition to being Taylor’s first… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]

By the time he was 12 years old in 2000, Billy Gilman had a million-selling debut album that stormed both the country and pop charts. Five more LPs (including a Christmas record) followed, all of them finding their way onto the country chart, with his most recent, Everything and More,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Billy […]

Gambling, heavy drinking and a dance battle worthy of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” highlight Mark Ronson’s neon-lit new video for “I Can’t Lose.” The clip finds Ronson and guest vocalist Keyone Starr venturing into an underground Chinatown club, where they perform the seductive soul-pop jam against a gangster movie-style backdrop.  “I… Source: RollingStone Link: Gangsters, […]

Roger Waters’ spectacular, record-breaking concert production of Pink Floyd’s 1979 album The Wall, which loosely dramatized how the singer dealt with the death of his father in World War II, will screen in movie theaters around the world, including more than 300 U.S. theaters, this fall. The film version of… Source: RollingStone Link: Roger Waters' […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc's new music streaming service has been endorsed by the Worldwide Independent Network, an association for independent musicians, two days after the company reversed its decision of not paying musicians during a three-month trial. The endorsement follows a Billboard magazine report that independent music rights holders Beggars Group and Merlin Network signed […]