Dan Wilson: Last News

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe music-publishing catalog of songwriter-producer Dan Wilson, known for his hits with Adele, the (Dixie) Chicks and his own band Semisonic, has been acquired by Primary Wave.Terms of the deal include some of Wilson’s biggest hits: three from Adele, including the smash “Someone Like You”; six from the (Dixie) Chicks, including their Grammy-winning hit “Not Ready to Make Nice”; and songs recorded by Taylor Swift, John Legend, Dierks Bentley, Pink, Josh Groban, Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges and Semisonic, including their 1998 hit “Closing Time.”“The musical art that Dan has created as a songwriter is undeniable,” says Justin Shukat, President of Primary Wave Music Publishing.

Semisonic’s Dan Wilson has opened up about how Liam Gallagher indirectly inspired the band to reunite to release new music.The Minneapolis band formed in 1995 and released three albums before they split in 2001. They reunited 16 years later to play a series of shows to mark the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Great Divide’.Frontman Wilson has also written songs for a host of big stars including Adele, The Chicks and James Bay.

Semisonic have returned with their first new music in 19 years – hear new single ‘You’re Not Alone’ below.The track is lifted from a brand new EP of the same name, which is set to come out in September.Last releasing an album in 2001 with ‘All About Chemistry’, the band reunited in 2017. In the years in between, frontman Dan Wilson went on to write for the likes of Adele, Weezer, Taylor Swift and John Legend.“I wrote ‘You’re Not Alone’ a couple of years ago at a time when a lot of people, including me, were feeling isolated and despairing about the state of the world and the direction our country was going.

Dixie Chicks unveiled another song from their upcoming Gaslighter album on Thursday (June 25) in the form of the urgent, topical "March March."Set to a spare, sonar-like pinging beat, the track written by the trio along with Dan Wilson, Jack Antonoff, Ross Golan and Ian Kirkpatrick takes on a raft of issues in the inimitable take-no-prisoners DC style."March, march to my own drum/ Hey, hey, I'm an army of one," the track opens, before digging into some of the kind of knotty topics polite country acts typically shy away from, from gun control to arming teachers, white men legislating abortion and climate change."Brenda's packing heat 'cause she don't like Mondays/ Underpaid teachers policing the hallways/ Print yourself a weapon and take it

James Patrick Herman Warner Records has signed in-demand songwriter Amy Allen to a recording contract. The deal was inked last July when Allen began cutting back on session work with other artists (her past collabs include Harry Styles, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello) and focusing on her forthcoming solo debut.