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Downtown Music Holdings announced its acquisition of South Africa-based independent music publisher Sheer Music on Monday (May 18), expanding the company's footprint on the continent and providing Sheer’s African artists with new access to global markets.Under the deal, which builds on a longstanding relationship between Sheer and Downtown’s publishing division, Sheer will continue to operate as a standalone business within Downtown’s portfolio, maintaining its independent royalty platform to

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An Arkansas concert venue, which was scheduled to play host to an “intimate solo acoustic performance” by country-rock star Travis McCready on Friday, just postponed the controversial concert after it had its alcohol license pulled by state regulators who have said the venue was in defiance of the state’s ban on large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.

At a press conference on Thursday (May 14), TempleLive announced it was rescheduling its socially-distanced Travis McCready concert scheduled for Friday night in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The show was set to be one of the first shows hosted after mass gatherings were banned throughout the county due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers – Photo: Nadia Awad/Lambda Legal Digital.

If you’ve been looking for your next true crime fix then this documentary may be the answer.

< 1 min read A lesbian couple in the U.S state of South Carolina are heading to court to fight policy that enables discrimination against same-sex couples seeking to foster children. Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers were told that they failed to meet the criteria by a government-funded adoption agency simply because they are a lesbian couple.

A mum wanted in the US over a bizarre child kidnap plot has made a bid for freedom from a Scottish jail.

Anna Nicole Smith’s abusive ex-boyfriend has been killed in a shoot-out in South Carolina.

Select businesses across California may open as early as Friday as the state prepares to enter phase two of its COVID-19 recovery plan.California Gov.

HBO is diving deep into the mind of Michelle McNamara and the “Golden State Killer”.

Before her untimely death, writer Michelle McNamara obsessed over the search for the Golden State Killer, who terrorized California during the 1970s and ‘80s by murdering 12 people and raping 50 others. She channeled her energy and commitment to solving the mystery into a relentless and consuming investigation before she died tragically in her sleep after an accidental overdose. 

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