BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld is wasting no time in implementing huge changes at the company. The company’s new boss recently announced that BMG will take control of its streaming business, following a long partnership with Warner Music’s ADA. While BMG is ending its association with Warner Music, it has now formed a significant new partnership…

Germany-headquartered music company BMG [915 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/bertelsmann/bmg/”>BMG and Universal Music Group [3,209 articles]” href=”https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/companies/universal-music-group/”>Universal Music Group (UMG) have formed a new alliance. The companies say that they will “explore a range of collaborative initiatives to further expand opportunities for BMG-signed artists around the world”. The first project under the new alliance will be moving the…

Late on a July evening in the Faroe Islands — a small enclave of around 50,000 people located in the North Atlantic between England, Iceland and Norway — the G! Fest, one of Europe’s more unusual music festivals, is well underway. The three-day event’s lineup consists primarily of Faroese and Scandinavian acts, but there are a few…

For 25 years, the violinist Viktoria Mullova and her cellist husband Matthew Barley have nurtured a dream to perform Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht together. The hiatus of the pandemic provided an opportunity for Barley to think of ways in which the couple might realise their ambition, and the result is Transfigured Night, in which…

Every week, Milwaukee Music Premiere connects the city’s artists with our listening audience. If you’re an artist with a track you’d like us to debut exclusively on Radio Milwaukee, head over to ourMusic Submission page to learn how. Read (or write) enough music-analysis-type things like this, and you start to notice certain words popping up…

If you’re a fan of Beyoncé, Drake, Adele, Harry Styles, Janet Jackson, Metallica, The Chicks, Pearl Jam, or Billy Joel, you have no choice but to leave Colorado for their current run of shows. Why is that? Especially when Colorado is getting concerts from undisputed heavyweights such as Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Madonna, Zac Brown…

Des Plaines to pay $1.9M settlement to teen shot by police The city of Des Plaines will by nearly $2 million to a Chicago teen who was shot by police inside a music school in Old Irving Park in 2019. Officers were pursing a bank robbery suspect when they opened fire in the music studio…

While booting up Zoom to talk to actor John Malkovich and classical-music humorist Aleksey Igudesman about “The Music Critic,” a musical-theatrical sendup of scowling, grumbling ink slingers everywhere, I was, in fact, scowling and grumbling. Through the smoke of a world already on fire, I and other music writers had just been shaken by the…