Geffen Records News

fter one of the most successful PBS pledge runs to date, Il Volo returns with their newly recorded PBS special, We Are Love: Live from The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater. Available today, August 6 th, We Are Love: Live from The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater comes as the second live CD and DVD from the young Italian trio and is available exclusively as a CD from Amazon's CreateSpace service (http://www.amazon.com/Fillmore-Miami-Jackie-Gleason-Theater/dp/B00DUZDMBG) and exclusively as a DVD from Barnes & Noble .

Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today that it has partnered with Russell Simmons, Brian Robbins and Steve Rifkind to launch All Def Music

Universal Music Group's Island Def Jam & Republic Records Label Group today announced the appointment of Sara Connally to Vice President, Film & Television.

Following his #1 iTunes Rock Single “Pictures,” singer, songwriter, musician TERRY McDERMOTT has just released a new song, “In Your Eyes,” available now at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/in-your-eyes-single/id651702648. A snippet of the track can be heard here: http://youtu.be/6U5YgFRKSI8.

Today, one week before Donna Summer's posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) releases Donna Summer ICON, a new single-disc collection featuring 11 of the legendary singer's biggest hits and fan favorites.

Universal Music Group (UMG),the world's leading music company, and Roc Nation, the renowned entertainment company founded by Shawn 'JAY Z' Carter, announced today that they have entered into a multi-year, worldwide partnership under which the Roc Nation music label

Acoustic folk-rock trio THE SWEET REMAINS will release their new CD 'North & Prospect' today, February 19th.

Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Parlophone Label Group (PLG) to Warner Music Group for £487 million.

Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's leading music company, has signed new long-term agreements with Republic Records founders Monte Lipman and Avery Lipman as they become Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and President & Chief Operating Officer

Acoustic folk-rock trio THE SWEET REMAINS will release their new CD 'North & Prospect' on February 19th.

Broadcast from Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE! will feature performances from rock group Lifehouse, AMERICAN IDOL Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips and entertainer Carmen Electra.

FOX OPERATOR BILL MALONE OF FX ARTS will present the second production of its 2012-2013 BROADWAY SERIES of shows with the Tony Award-winning masterwork, DREAMGIRLS. DREAMGIRLS will dazzle audiences on Thursday, January 10 at the Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

Gee Roberson, Chairman of Geffen Records, will transition to create and own a full service record company to be distributed by Interscope Geffen A&M, it was announced today by Interscope Geffen A&M Chairman and CEO Jimmy Iovine and President and COO John Janick . This move is consistent and in further consolidation of his other highly successful entertainment interests including managerial and artist development company Blueprint Group.

Entertainment executive and philanthropist David Geffen has established an unprecedented $100 million scholarship fund that will cover the entire cost of education for the very best medical students attending the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (DGSOM). The school was named in his honor after his $200 million unrestricted gift in 2002. With this recent gift, Geffen's total philanthropic support to UCLA exceeds $300 million, making him the largest individual donor to UCLA and to any single UC campus.

Broadcast from Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, NEW YEAR'S EVE LIVE! will feature performances from rock group Lifehouse, AMERICAN IDOL Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips and entertainer Carmen Electra.

THIRTEEN's American Masters presents the first film biography of media mogul David Geffen. The Emmy-winning filmmaker Susan Lacy's new documentary features candid interviews with Geffen, Cher, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Elton John, Don Henley, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Nora Ephron, Mike Nichols, Clive Davis, Irving Azo

David Geffen's far-reaching influence - as agent, manager, record industry mogul, Hollywood and Broadway producer, and philanthropist - has helped shape American popular culture for the past four decades. Notoriously press and camera-shy, Geffen reveals himself for the first time in the new two-hour documentary American Masters Inventing David Geffen, premiering nationally Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 8 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Two-time Emmy®-winning filmmaker, American Masters creator and executive producer Susan Lacy paints an unflinching portrait of Geffen, who narrates his unorthodox rise from working class Brooklyn boy to billionaire entertainment power broker in extensive interviews.

Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) and Milyoni, the leader in social entertainment, today announced the availability of LEGENDS IN THE CLOUDS offerings which will allow Facebook users to stream a variety of documentaries, films and concerts on a pay-per-view basis as well as purchase music and merchandise.

Platinum selling R&B singer Keyshia Cole has announced plans to release her highly anticipated 5th studio album, WOMAN TO WOMAN, on Monday, November 19th (Geffen Records). Recorded in multiple cities including Los Angeles, New York and Cleveland with producers including Rodney Jerkins (Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson, The Black Eyed Peas), T- minus (Drake, Nicki Minaj, T.I.), Darhyl 'DJ' Camper, Jr. (Corrine Bailey Rae, John Legend, R.Kelly) and Carlos McKinney (The-Dream, Usher, Trey Songz), this album continues to display Keyshia's distinct and extraordinary voice while showcasing the songstress at the top of her game both musically and lyrically. The album's current single 'Trust & Believe,' just claimed the #1 spot for most added song at Urban Radio this week, just one day after its impact date.