• Nina Simone's Catalogue A Catch-22 for Sony Music, Estate, Lawyers

    Nina Simone's legacy will be coming to the silver screen soon enough in the form of a new documentary, but who truly controls her musical heritage has been the subject of lawsuits for decades, and the legal battles between Sony Entertainment, the vocalist's estate, not to mention several previous managers/lawyers have only gotten more confusing.

  • Avicii Covers Nina Simone’s "Feeling Good" Ahead Of Album 'Stories' [LISTEN]

    Avicii, real name Tim Bergling, has been hinting at a new Volvo collaboration on social media this week, but all of a sudden today he shared the commercial's soundtrack on Spotify. The "Hey Brother" producer took Nina Simone's classic "Feeling Good" and gave it a worthy cover. Avicii put the banjos and synths on the other side of the studio for this one, working with the timeless genius of the original. The single sets the stage for Bergling's sophomore artist album Stories.

  • Cassandra Wilson Reinterprets Billie Holiday Nicely on 'Coming Forth By Day'

    Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. This week we look at Cassandra Wilson and her tribute to the discography of Billie Holiday, 'Coming Forth By Day.'

  • Lana Del Rey Reveals Title Of Next Album, Has Nine Songs Written

    It's been a little over six months since the release of Lana Del Rey's last album Ultraviolence, but in a new interview with Billboard, the 29-year-old singer-songwriter reveals that she already has nine songs written for her next album, which will be titled Honeymoon. "I'm looking for a few more songs to tie everything together," Del Rey says of the album. Out of the nine songs she has already, Del Rey says that "the production is perfect" on four of them.

  • AC/DC's Bon Scott Will Be Subject of Upcoming Documentary and Biopic

    Not much is known about AC/DC's original frontman Bon Scott here in America. We still hear him on classic rock radio belting "Highway to Hell" or "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," but how did he reach that point? What was Scott like before stardom? A new documentary and biopic about the frontman are in the works, so we'll have some answers soon enough.
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