Power of Law: Top Music Attorneys of 2020

Power of Law: Top Music Attorneys of 2020

Jul 14, 2020 3:31pm PT Power of Law: Top Music Attorneys of 2020 Rob Latour/Shutterstock As any music-business attorney will tell you, it’s not a job for the faint of heart — especially in 2020. These legal eagles made massive deals, litigated thorny disputes and...
The Best Music Books of 2019 (a Lot of Them, Anyway)

The Best Music Books of 2019 (a Lot of Them, Anyway)

DECEMBER 22, 2019 8:22AM PT

By JEM ASWAD

Reviewing music is a walk in the park compared with reviewing books, which must be the most time-consuming occupation in entertainment apart from being parents of budding baseball players. For a similar reason, this best-music-books-of-the-year list is hardly a definitive one — there was a veritable avalanche of them released this year, utterly hopeless to keep up with. So with apologies to some of these authors for tardiness (there are a couple of late 2018 titles in here) — and to Liz Phair, Hanif Abdurraqib and others whose books I’ve heard are great but have not read yet — here are The Best Music Books of 2019 That I Managed to Procure and Actually Finish Reading… 

“All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition” (by Donald Passman) — Ten editions in, this book, written by one of the industry’s most prominent and experienced attorneys, remains the single best one-stop for learning about the music business. Its very nature dictates that it’s hardly a page-turner, but Passman’s style is engaging and his expertise near-unimpeachable.