Taylor Swift now owns all her music thanks to her $2 billion Eras Tour

Taylor Swift's Eras Tour shattered records, spawned a blockbuster hit concert film and made the pop singer a billionaire. Now, she credits the nearly two-year tour with helping her "greatest dream come true": becoming the owner of all of her …

‘The soul of Irish traditional music’: a musical journey through County Clare

A hilly lane curves round Bunratty Castle. Through an open window, I hear a harpist plucking notes at a banquet drifting as the sun sets low over the battlements. On the other side of the lane, smoke drifts from Durty Nelly’s pub, where a singer is halfway …

Taylor Swift Now Owns All Her Music, So Here Are 26 Of The Best, Funniest, And Most Heart-Warming Tweets About It

Scooter Braun Reacts to Taylor Swift Buying Master Recordings Of Her Music

Scooter Braun, the businessman responsible for Taylor Swift rerecording and releasing four of her early albums as "Taylor's Versions," says he's glad Swift now finally owns the master recordings of all of her music. “I am happy for her,” …

Big Ocean: K-pop's First Deaf Boy Band Sets Sights on the U.S. Music Scene

Big Ocean, the world's first K-pop boy band composed entirely of deaf and hard-of-hearing artists, is boldly setting its sights on the global market—and the U.S. is high on their list. Fresh from their first anniversary and the release of their new …

“I became a punk – I hid my Pink Floyd records and I now had an uneasy relationship with the music”: Siobhan Fahey’s ...

A teen crush gave acclaimed singer and hit songwriter Siobhan Fahey her first prog kick. Then punk happened. But she named Bananarama in honour of Roxy Music, and the Shakespeare’s Sister mastermind will never get over her love of Pink Floyd, as she told …

Long shunned as too explicit, an Indian music genre is rising from the margins

Lovelorn maidens, heartless dandies and coquettes, envy, betrayal, languor and heaving passion, all amidst a profusion of moonlight and jasmine. This is the dramatic, and rather medieval, universe of padams and javalis – intensely amorous love verses set …

Taylor Swift's music finally belongs to her. Here's why it matters.Kofi Mframa 

After years of seemingly endless battles, Taylor Swift has won the war. On May 30, Swift announced that she now owns the master recordings of her first six albums.  “All of the music I’ve ever made… now belongs… to me,” Swift wrote in a heartfelt letter to …

Another Lee County talent making a mark in country music

Josh Phillips is counting his blessings these days. Phillips, 33, a Lee County native, walked away from the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards held earlier this month in Frisco, Texas, with a win for penning “Dirt Cheap,” which landed the “Song of the …

Taylor Swift paid THIS much to own her music again

Taylor Swift has reportedly paid a handsome amount to buy back the rights to her first six albums. An insider spilled to Billboard on Friday that the pop sensation paid Shamrock Capital about $360 million to acquire the rights to all songs from albums, …