As part of a larger initiative to bring broader support to its roster of artists, Sony Music Entertainment announced in an internal letter that it will be offering free counseling and therapy services to all its actively signed artists. The new initiative, called the Artist Assistance program, is an expansion …
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Music has long been touted for its abilities to heal, whether it be helping cope with loss or evoking old memories. Now, one ambitious medical startup — with the endorsement of the world’s largest music company — is looking to use music for a much more clinical purpose: teaching people …
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You’re trapped in a carnival of horrors. Every move you make is crucial. If you open the right door, you’ll survive, but others will send you falling down a slide of doom for eternity, getting your head bitten off, turned into a chicken, or sent into space. Wait, no, these …
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Hero the Band islooking for its big break. In a different kind of year, the Atlanta rock quartet, a recent signing for Jason Flom’s Lava Records, would be hitting the festival circuit to pick up an opening gig for a bigger act and build up their fanbase in person. With …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Rissi Palmer, a keen student of history, had long noticed problems with the way people talked about race in country music. …
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Los Angeles is the beating heart of the entertainment industry, but it’s also a city with a terribly flawed public school system, a.k.a. the LAUSD, in which arts-related classes notoriously get the short end of the stick. It’s tough not to imagine the talent that could be fostered if this …
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NFTs could reshape the fan experience — that is, if NFT marketplaces were user-friendly and the digital collectibles were actually affordable. Industry insiders tellRolling Stone that a new marketplace called OneOf has been designed specifically for musicians and music lovers, and that it will announce its plans on Tuesday to …
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“It’s not as deep as people will think it is,” says Addison Rae, discussing the meaning behind her surprise debut single, “Obsessed.” Rae has 78 million followers on her TikTok, which she launched in the summer of 2019. In less than two years, the 20-year-old has built an empire that …
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Katy Perry isn’t known for being a Pikachu whisperer. Nor did Liam Payne make his millions as a sports aficionado. However, Universal Music Group (UMG) sees the value in both of these alter-egos. On Wednesday, the company announced three separate partnerships with big names in the games, sports, and fitness …
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Ludwig Göransson was in the middle of scoring Tenet,Warner Brothers’ most anticipated film of the year, when the pandemic struck — not only pausing most of the film industry’s releases, but also keeping his entire orchestra sequestered, unable to get together in a room and rehearse or record together. With …
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