Jonathan Eshak News Today

Just a few months ago, no one knew his name. Now, with a new album, he's a step away from superstardom.

Block has acquired HIFI, a music-focused financial services startup.

In a guest column, "The New Music Business" podcast host Ari Herstand opines on why venues need to stop shaking down artists for every last dollar.

One thing he learned at TCC was how to play guitar. A classmate named Kyree let him borrow hers one day, taught him a few chords, nothing fancy. He’d been secretly writing songs for a while by then, and the songs were nothing fancy either. Nothing vulgar, nothing sexual, nothing worldly. At eighteen, the young man had given his life to Christ. Joined a Reformed church of his own choosing. He liked that the church’s music featured some piano, some percussion, a guitar, but “nothing crazy....