Under president/CEO Ben Vaughn, Warner Chappell Nashville consistently dominated country music publishing. In 2024 alone, WCN was crowned publisher of the year at the SESAC Nashville Music Awards and at the BMI Country Music Awards (for the fifth time). But all those accolades aside, Vaughn, who died Jan. 30, stood out due to his respect for

It’s a Tuesday evening in May at Nightbird Studios, the recording complex nestled within L.A.’s Sunset Marquis. Within this infamous hotel rock and roller hotel, where Keith Richards once got behind the bar and poured drinks during the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, Anyma is tinkering away on a new album intended to end the current phase

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“Don’t I know you from somewhere?” a curious fan asks ­BigXthaPlug as the rapper and his entourage are escorted through Coachella’s artist entrance. BigX has probably heard that phrase a lot lately. From ­Beyoncé using the good-naturedly boastful “The Largest” as part of an interlude on the Cowboy Carter tour to earning a top five

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