“It was pretty dire,” says Warner Records co-chairman-COO Tom Corson of his first few months at the label. A veteran executive who’s held senior roles at A&M, Capitol, Columbia, Arista and J Records, Corson came to Warner after a very successful run as COO of RCA Records. But even he was daunted by the task […]
Charli xcx delivered a heartfelt salute to “The Velvet Underground & Nico.” Jack Antonoff cheekily told a roomful of music industry insiders that “some of you care more about Pop Crave than Pitchfork.” Lana Del Rey confessed she didn’t submit her music for Grammy nominations early on because she didn’t know how. Olivia Rodrigo outed […]
Is Laufey a jazz artist, or a bona fide pop star? The qualified answer, with asterisks to spare, is “both.” And that’s part of the fun in discussing everyone’s favorite Icelandic-Asian-American singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist-cellist. Genre discussions can be a drag for artists and fans alike, but they’re suddenly a lot more fun when the overriding question is […]
At a time when watercooler moments are hard to come by, “Like That” — an explosive collaboration between hip-hop heavyweights Future, Metro Boomin and Kendrick Lamar — dominated the cultural conversation for weeks on end. While the chatter largely centered on Lamar’s incendiary verse and the very public beef it triggered among Drake, J. Cole […]
With no shade to anyone, there really is no other choice for Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Decade than Jack Antonoff. Yes, he’s won the Grammy producer of the year award for three consecutive trips around the sun, but that’s just one indication of his culture-shifting collaborations with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, […]
