Robert Levine

2 days ago | billboard.com | Robert Levine

Shira Perlmutter Jay Premack/USPTO The Trump Administration fired U.S. Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter on Saturday (May 10), sparking concerns in the music business that the White House will take the side of technology companies in debates about AI and copyright.

5 days ago | billboard.com | Robert Levine

Tobias Forge of Ghost performs on stage at Afas Live on June 4, 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Paul Bergen/Getty Images Rock isn’t dead — it just dresses that way.

1 week ago | bachtrack.com | Robert Levine

When one first meets the eponymous heroine of Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, it is in medias res; the only thing we know is that the young captain Narraboth finds her particularly beautiful. Within ten minutes of her entrance, we realize that this 16-year old princess is morally corrupt, oversexed, cruel, spoiled and probably a sociopath. How could this have happened, even within the lascivious court of King Herod?

2 weeks ago | themoderatevoice.com | Robert Levine

For a man whose companies have been convicted on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud, for falsifying records to evade taxes, and found guilty on 17 counts, it seems preposterous for Trump to go after his enemies using the IRS to try and ferret out discrepancies in their tax returns. There were also civil cases of Trump defrauding banks where he was found guilty and ordered to pay $350 million, plus accrued interest of about $100 million.

2 weeks ago | billboard.com | Robert Levine

SGAE, the collective management organization in Spain, took in the most money in its history in 2024, 390 million euros, or $422 million based on the average 2024 Euro-dollar conversion rate, it announced. That’s up 41 million euros ($44.4 million), or 11.7%, from 2023. The organization distributed more than 349 million euros ($377.6 million) to rightsholders, up 6%, its second-highest distribution ever.