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CMU’s One Liners: Bucks Music Management, Sharon Van Etten, DJ Shadow, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 25 August 2016

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Bucks Music’s newish management unit has signed producer Dan Weller and production duo Artery Music. “Being able to add Dan Weller and Artery Music to the Bucks Music Management roster is a big step forward early on in the company’s history”, says Anthony Hippsley, who is leading the music publishing firm’s move into artist management.

• Sharon Van Etten has released new single ‘Not Myself’ in tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting earlier this year. Proceeds from the sale of the track on Bandcamp will go to the Everytown For Gun Safety Support Fund.

• DJ Shadow and Run The Jewels have released the video for ‘Nobody Speak’. It answers the question, ‘What if these lyrics were the basis of political debate?’

• Angel Olsen has released the video for ‘Sister’, taken from her new album ‘My Woman’, which is out next week.

• Enter Shikari will release a live album on 4 Nov featuring their Alexandra Palace show from earlier this year. From that very show, here’s ‘Redshift’.

• Thundercat has released a new single, ‘Bus In These Streets’, billed as “a comedic ode to our dependence on technology”.

• Kishi Bashi has released the video for new single ‘Hey Big Star’.

• Coinciding nicely with them being in the news this week, Sleigh Bells have announced that they will release their new album, ‘Jessica Rabbit’, on 11 Nov. From it, this is ‘Hyper Dark’.

• Akala will release new album ‘Ten Years Akala’ on 23 Sep. Here’s new single, ‘Giants’.

• MJ Hibbett And The Validators have put together a video for new single ‘The 1980s How It Was’ using the photographs taken by Chris Porsz that inspired it.

• Ela Orleans has released the video for this is ‘You Go Through Me’ from her seventh album ‘Circles Of Upper And Lower Hell’.

• The Kenneths are releasing a new EP called ‘Double N’ on 30 Sep. Here they are confirming that news, if you don’t believe me.

• The Comet Is Coming will be heading out on tour this winter, including a date at XOYO in London on 15 Nov. Here are all the dates.

• The full line-up of headliners for this year’s Apple Music Festival, which will take place at London’s Roundhouse next month, has been announced. Performing this year will be Elton John, The 1975, Alicia Keys, OneRepublic, Calvin Harris, Robbie Williams, Bastille, Britney Spears, Michael Buble and Chance The Rapper.