Missy Elliott, John Prine and Yusuf/Cat Stevens are among the 2019 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Country great Tom T. Hall, R&B hitmaker Dallas Austin and “Peaceful Easy Feeling” writer Jack Tempchin will also be honored at the June 13th induction ceremony at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel. …

Spotify surpassed 200 million monthly active users at the end of 2018, the 10-year-old streaming service announced during an interview at Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show this week. In November, Spotify said in a financial disclosure to investors that it had 191 million monthly active users, 87 million of them …

Shelby Svensen admitted to killing his wife Jamie Ivancic — but only after he was arrested for also killing three of her family members. Authorities believe Ivancic may have been dead for as long as a year, but Svensen convinced her friends and family that she was still alive by …

Jimmy Page kept himself pretty busy in the Eighties. In addition to co-founding the short-lived supergroup XYZ, he composed the soundtrack to Death Wish II, launched the Firm with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, reunited with Led Zeppelin for a couple high-profile one-offs, and guest-starred with everyone from …

Here’s music for the music business’s ears: U.S. consumers’ spending on audio entertainment is expected to rise significantly this year off of record spending in 2018. On-demand music services are expected to bring in 22 percent more revenue in 2019, rising to $7.7 billion, according to the Consumer Technology Association’s …

On May 7th, 2018, Richard Swift posted a black-and-white image of his recording studio, National Freedom, to Instagram. Situated in a converted barn behind his home in Cottage Grove, Oregon, the studio was full of the tools of his trade: a triple stack of keyboards, the custom C&C drum kit …

“Intercourse can be wonderful,” Jean Milburn tells her son Otis. “But it can also cause tremendous pain. And if you’re not careful, sex can destroy lives.” Jean would know. She is a sex therapist and bestselling author on the subject, but her marriage to Otis’ father (also a sex therapist …

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) announced Friday he will not seek reelection in 2020. “I will serve the remainder of this term as your senator, fighting for Kansas in these troubled times,” the 82-year-old Republican said in remarks delivered from the Kansas Department of Agriculture. The senator boasted he’d end his …

Since early November, federal prosecutors have been doing their best to prove to a jury that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera is guilty of running a decades-long, multibillion-dollar conspiracy to traffick and distribute narcotics across North America. Over the course of two months, the government has brought forward witness after …

Roger Miller would have turned 83 years old today. Born January 2nd, 1936, in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Erick, Oklahoma, Miller would become one of the most celebrated songwriters in American history, an entertainer and composer distinguished for his contributions to country and pop music, as well as …