Chaka Khan, Cher, Whitney Houston, Fela Kuti get Grammys Life Achievement Awards

Chaka Khan, Cher, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, Fela Kuti, and Whitney Houston have received the Lifetime Achievement Award ...
American Songwriter

The Story Behind How Glenn Danzig Wrote a Song for Roy Orbison That Ended Up in the 1987 Film ‘Less Than Zero’

It wasn’t a Danzig song,” said Glenn Danzig in a 2019 interview. “I wrote him a Roy Orbison song because I’m writing for Roy Orbison." ...

A. G. Cook on Scoring Charli xcx's ‘The Moment,' Using ‘Brat' Songs Sparingly and Why ‘Mulholland Drive' Was a ‘Very Conscious Influence'

When it came to finding a composer for Charli xcx’s mockumentary “The Moment,” no one made more sense than her longtime producer and friend A. G. Cook. Though he’d never scored a feature before, his ...

Issiah Ross sentenced to 20 years for murder of Devin Clark, mistrial in death of Lyric Woods

After deliberating for almost four more hours, the jury told Judge Stephanie Reese that they reached a unanimous verdict for the death of Devin Clark, but failed to reach a verdict on the ...