Sony/ATV Buys Leiber/Stroller Music Catalog

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has acquired the music catalog of songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for an undisclosed sum. The catalogue contains more than 40 Top 40 hits, including “Stand By Me,” “Love Potion #9” and and “Jailhouse Rock.” Sony/ATV Music Publishing is a venture between Sony Corp. and Michael Jackson.

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Chemical Brothers Ready “We are the Night”

The sixth studio album from the Chemical Brothers, “We Are the Night”, will drop in June with a festival and US tour to follow. Recorded in a bomb shelter in South London, the album promises to “evoke the dancefloors of Manchester and Minneapolis in the early eighties and London of 2007.” The new release, of course, features guest vocalists and players, including nu-ravers Klaxons on All Nights Reserved,...

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