Jem Aswad

'Variety' senior music editor Jem Aswad breaks down the trend of big name artists selling their catalogs, and its implications for the music industry.

The Velvet Underground and Nico changed music history — and Mark Satlof has over 800 copies of its original pressing.

By now, three-fourths of the way through The Beatles' sort-of-official 50th anniversary year, Fab Four fatigue is understandable. The past eight months alone have seen the Emmy-nominated Night That Changed America TV special (based on the 50^th anniversary of the group's landmark Ed Sullivan appearances), the reissue of ...

Sheffield, England — the setting for The Full Monty and part of the British equivalent of the Rust Belt — seems an unlikely spawning ground for the wistful pop of this duo with a deceptively static name. But from the youthful, acoustic-and-harmony-based pop of their early material to the more ...

To say that 1974 was a year of change and challenge for David Bowie and his fans is an understatement as extreme as the lurid outfits he'd worn as his just-abandoned alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The incubator for the evolution was Bowie's U.S. tour that year, which began in Montreal ...

Do It Again, by the Scandinavian dream team of Röyksopp and Robyn, is neither act's official "new album," but rather a five-song mini-album from the group Röyksopp & Robyn — which, truth be told, is a catchier name than Röykbyn or Robsopp.

The set marks the next step in a ...

Soundcheck finds out what it's like to be a very young music fan in the U.S. and across the pond. First, we speak with Sam Killcoyne, the 15-year-old concert promoter behind London's inaugural Underage Festival. His event will bring 5000 teenagers -- and no adults -- to London's Victoria Park ...