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ATLANTIC UNVEILS NEW LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE
The Elliot era begins. (9/24a)
DICKON STAINER
TO HEAD UMG U.K.
Changing of the guard (9/24a)
CALL MY AGENT:
SAMANTHA KIRBY YOH
The latest in a series of live-exec trading cards (9/27a)
TOP 20: FUTURISTIC
Score one for hip-hop. (9/26a)
NADEL MOVES FROM ELEKTRA TO WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE
WMG reorg hits Music City. (9/24a)
THE GRAMMY SHORT LIST
Who's already a lock?
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
ALL THE WAY LIVE
The players, the tours, the enormous beers.
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ATLANTIC UNVEILS NEW LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE
The Elliot era begins. (9/24a)
DICKON STAINER
TO HEAD UMG U.K.
Changing of the guard (9/24a)
CALL MY AGENT:
SAMANTHA KIRBY YOH
The latest in a series of live-exec trading cards (9/27a)
TOP 20: FUTURISTIC
Score one for hip-hop. (9/26a)
NADEL MOVES FROM ELEKTRA TO WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE
WMG reorg hits Music City. (9/24a)
THE GRAMMY SHORT LIST
Who's already a lock?
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
ALL THE WAY LIVE
The players, the tours, the enormous beers.
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Stevie Nicks, "The Lighthouse"
“I wrote this song a few months after Roe v. Wade was overturned," writes superstar Nicks of her new anthem (out via Warner). "It seemed like overnight, people were saying, 'What can we, as a collective force, do about this?' For me, it was to write a song. It took a while because I was on the road. Then early one morning, I was watching the news on TV and a certain newscaster said something that felt like she was talking to me, explaining what the loss of Roe v. Wade would come to mean. I wrote the song the next morning and recorded it that night." Nicks wrote this cautionary song with Magnus Birgersson, and Vincent Villuis; with a monumental election looming, we expect her to further mobilize listeners with her SNL appearance on 10/12. "Stand up and take it back," she sings. "Don't let them take your power."
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