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Newport Beach News By Simone Goldstone | NB Indy Soundcheck Columnist Performances by the Go-Go’s and Cherie Currie? A look at Gibson Guitar’s Coachella house complete with a guitar-shaped pool? Exclusive interviews with Jackson Browne, Mel Brooks, and Peter Frampton? It could only mean one thing: The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and their virtual take on the traditional convention (held in Anaheim every January) with their Believe in Music Week. This free Believe in Music Week 2021 boasted an attendance of over 90,000. Industry professionals and music lovers alike gathe...

Sun Records, Storied Early Rock Label, Sells Its High-Wattage Catalog The independent company Primary Wave Music acquired recordings by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and other pioneers — but not the music of one of Sun’s biggest stars, Elvis Presley. Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” and “I Walk the Line” are included in the sale of Sun Records’ catalog to Primary Wave Music.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Jan. 28, 2021 In the 1950s, Sun Records in Memphis became one of the most dynamic forces in American music, releasing the first recordings by Elvis Presley, Joh...

Per a Ed Bruce, the singer-songwriter best known for "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," passed away Friday (Jan. 8) in Clarksville, Tennessee from natural causes. He was 81 years old. William Edwin Bruce Jr. was born on December 29, 1939 in Keiser, Arkansas. He grew up in Memphis, where he caught his first break as the teenage singer-songwriter behind In the '60s, he became a songwriter for the stars after Charlie Louvin("See the Big Man Cry") found success with Bruce compositions. Around this same time, Bruce cut rockabilly sides for RCA, Wand and Scepter, including a c...