MusicBird Acquires Majid Jordan’s Publishing Catalog, Including Drake’s ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ and More

MusicBird CEO Paul Brown. Photo Credit: MusicBird MusicBird has acquired the publishing catalog of Majid Jordan, including an interest in works recorded by Drake and others. The Swiss song-rights investor (which is technically headquartered in London) reached out with word of its latest IP play today. According to MusicBird, theContinue Reading

“As soon as they started to jam, all three felt the magic. They instinctively knew they were on to something”: Their first single was so bad, the label pulled 10,000 copies. Yet they went on to be one of the most influential supergroups in music history

(Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) By the mid-’60s, as jazz bands slowly faded from the front pages of the music press, they were gradually replaced with rhythm and blues bands. One such band featured Graham Bond, a complicated figure and musical innovator who would go on to inadvertently paveContinue Reading

“There’s more than a whiff of Keef’s fabled old Telecasters”: The Newman Torn and Frayed Edition might be the Rolling Stones-inspired T-type we’ve been dreaming of

(Image credit: Future/Matt Lincoln) Although unavailable for many years, the late Ted Newman’s unique solidbody – originally conceived for Keith Richards back in the ’70s – has made quite a return since the introduction of the 5 String in 2024, the first of an ongoing series of limited-edition models madeContinue Reading

“Blends performance and aesthetics into a single, uncompromising musical tool”: Harley Benton’s well-specced $285 eight-string finally gets a left-handed version

(Image credit: Harley Benton) Harley Benton has come to the aid of southpaw players with the R-458MN LH WH multi-scale – an eight-string guitar that packs serious specs for a $285 price tag. Standout shredders like Tosin Abasi, Misha Mansoor, and Fredrik Thorendal have helped bring eight-string guitars to prominence,Continue Reading

“I took Gem Archer’s job when he joined Oasis. Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy came in on Saturdays and we’d just play”: How a job in the “party guitar shop” gave Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne his start in the industry

(Image credit: Aldara Zarraoa/Redferns/Getty Images) The Pretenders’ lead guitarist James Walbourne got his start in the music industry thanks to a job in a local guitar shop – a warm-up, if you will, to networking and navigating the personal and professional dynamics of being in a band. “You need toContinue Reading

A Flying Horse Lands in Foshan for the New Year

Walk into Foshan’s Lingnan Tiandi this season and you’ll notice it before anything else: a towering horse mid-stride, glowing against the old brick lanes.  Nearly seven meters tall, the lantern sculpture rises above the square as if caught in motion, a traditional craft scaled to theatrical proportions. Image courtesy ofContinue Reading