The newly launched independent music publishing, rights management, and catalog marketing company AMR Songs has acquired the catalogs of former Lovin’ Spoonful frontman John Sebastian — including such ...

Motown was a significant influence on a number of classic rock bands. For example, two Supremes songs inspired The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Daydream.” Notably, it was difficult to put the latter song ...

“I’m a happy idiot. What can I tell you?” This was John Sebastian, leaving the Alex Theatre in Glendale early Sunday morning after an epic Lovin’ Spoonful tribute show that lasted four hours, with the ...

“That good-time music…now it‘s back on the radio!” sang John Sebastian last summer. He was ahead of his time. But what was wishful thinking in June has become fact in February: good-time music is back ...

In the mid-1960s, with protests over the Vietnam War and racial discord roiling, The Lovin’ Spoonful song “Summer in the City” became an anthem of a society in turmoil. When the hippie and drug ...