Monday 31 July 2017, 20:39 | By Andy Malt

Approved: San Jua

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San Jua

Split between Sweden and England, dream pop duo San Jua began putting tracks up on SoundCloud earlier this year. They are somewhat cagey about their identities and there is little biographical information about them available, meaning pretty much all that’s left is the music. And there we have three perfectly formed songs that say everything you need.

Early releases ‘Laid To Waste’ and ‘Break Your Fall’ provide a great introduction to the duo’s lush sound, washed in layered production that brings depth to the recordings. Latest track ‘Swirls In The Swimming Pool’ steps things up another level, filled with a quiet drama and soaring atmosphere.

San Jua are currently preparing to play their debut live shows later this year. For now, here’s ‘Swirls In The Swimming Pool’:

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Dr Luke wants to question Lady Gaga over Kesha case

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Dr Luke

Lady Gaga is pushing back against attempts by producer Dr Luke to force her to provide a deposition in relation to his defamation lawsuit against Kesha.

As much previously reported, Kesha Sebert and her one time collaborator Lukasz Gottwald have been involved in a long-running multi-layered legal battle that at one point involved litigation in three separate US states. She accuses him of rape, while he claims she made up those allegations in a bid to force his hand in a contract dispute. Among the various lawsuits, Gottwald has sued Sebert for defamation.

It’s in relation to that lawsuit that lawyers working for Gottwald want to question Lady Gaga. Because, they argue, Kesha has spoken to her fellow pop star about her allegations, in particular during a text message conversation in 2013. Lady Gaga has already provided a copy of that text message back and forth, but heavily redacted.

Lawyers working for the producer say that they have been trying to arrange a deposition – where they could question Lady Gaga about Kesha’s allegations under oath – for some time, but that she has so far resisted taking part voluntarily citing her busy schedule. To this end, they are now seeking a court order to force the star to comply.

A spokesperson for Dr Luke told CMU on Saturday: “In connection with Dr Luke’s defamation claims against Kesha, various third parties are being deposed by both sides, including celebrities. Dr Luke’s counsel served a subpoena on Lady Gaga because she has relevant information regarding, among other things, false statements about Dr Luke made to her by Kesha. This motion has become necessary because Dr Luke’s counsel has not been able to obtain, despite repeated request, a deposition date from Lady Gaga”.

But reps for Gaga have hit back, arguing that she has already shared everything she knows in relation to this case. A spokesperson told Variety: “As Lady Gaga’s legal team will present to the court, she has provided all of the relevant information in her possession and is at most an ancillary witness in this process. Dr Luke’s team is attempting to manipulate the truth and draw press attention to their case by exaggerating Lady Gaga’s role and falsely accusing her of dodging reasonable requests”.

It’s not the first time Gaga has been caught up in the Kesha v Dr Luke story. In 2014 she told Howard Stern in an interview that she had been raped when she was nineteen. She did not name the perpetrator, but Kesha’s then lawyer Mark Geragos suggested that it was Dr Luke. Gaga denied that this was the case, and the producer then sued the lawyer for defamation. Gaga subsequently spoke out in support of Kesha as her legal battle with Gottwald got more media attention.

Fyre Festival co-founder to defend himself in investor lawsuit

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Fyre Festival

As expected, a lawyer working for Fyre Festival co-founder Billy McFarland formally resigned on Friday.

As previously reported, lawyer Michael Levine was defending McFarland in the lawsuit filed against him by investor Oleg Itkin. But the attorney told the court last week that he planned to drop the case because McFarland couldn’t afford to pay his legal bills.

McFarland set up the disastrous Fyre Festival and an accompanying talent booking app with Ja Rule. Since the festival collapsed before it had even started in April, McFarland and his companies have been sued by an assortment of ticket-buyers, suppliers and financial backers. He also faces criminal charges for fraud.

In a formal filing with the court on Friday, attorney Levine wrote: “Although Mr McFarland executed a retainer agreement in this case, he never funded the same as required, and he has advised me that there is no reasonable prospect of funding the same in the future. As such, Mr McFarland has consented to our motion for leave to withdraw”.

The lawyer added that McFarland now planned to defend himself in the case, in which Itkin is seeking to reclaim $700,000 he says he loaned the failed Fyre venture. The lawyer wrote: “At the present time, defendant McFarland does not have substitute counsel. Defendant McFarland intends to represent himself during the remainder of the pre-trial stage of this case, with hopes of securing counsel for the trial”.

It’s not clear if McFarland currently has formal legal representation in any of the other lawsuits filed against him and his companies, though in the criminal proceedings he is being repped by a public defender.

FatCat launches new imprint to release dance 12″s

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Fat Cat Records
Independent label FatCat is launching a new electronic music focused imprint called FCR, in part acknowledging the company’s dance music roots, the parent label having grown out of a London record shop that specialised in techno and house.

Confirming the new imprint, FatCat co-founder Dave Cawley said: “When we started the label we didn’t want to be pigeonholed into one style, sound or genre; it was this freedom to move freely that we sought. We had spent so many years surrounded by dance music that we needed to explore other threads – whilst still maintaining an electronic and experimental element to much of FatCat’s output over the years”.

He goes on: “FCR is going to be our label releasing club records that we like. I listen to what we have coming up and although it’s all over the shop – from the driving house of Cottam, to the two step vocal cuts of E&D – it’s all FatCat”.

The first release on FCR will be ‘I Can’t Carry On’ by the there mentioned Cottam, complete with a remix by Detroit’s Todd Modes on the b-side. Meanwhile 12″ releases are also planned from the likes of Mall Grab, DJJ, Ali Berger, Grain, E&D, Lee Grainge and Steve Bicknell.

Final day of a wash out Y Not festival cancelled

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By the time organisers of the Y Not festival called off their Sunday festivities this weekend, attendees had pretty much got an answer to the event’s titular question. Heavy rainfall turned the site into a mud bath and led to some sets on previous days also being cancelled.

With the social networks already busy with festival-goers bemoaning the conditions on the Y Not site, promoters announced that: “Unfortunately we’ve had to take the difficult decision to cancel Sunday due to the adverse weather conditions across the weekend, after consulting all the relevant authorities. The safety of our guests, performers and crew is our primary concern and the potential risk was too severe for Sunday to go ahead”.

The statement added: “We are very sorry for the disappointment and disruption caused to everyone who was looking forward to the final day of the festival. We understand that people will have questions about refunds. We will be giving all our guests further information about this over the coming days”.

Some festival-goers have hit out at the way the festival dealt with the bad weather, claiming that management didn’t seem to have sufficient measures in place to deal with heavy rainfall, and that communication onsite was particularly poor. Wash out years obviously create a number of challenges for festival promoters, though heavy rainfall during the summer months is hardly unknown in the UK, and critics have said Y Not’s management should have been better prepared to deal with the swampy conditions.

Though the MD of Ground Control, which was overseeing the production of the event, has denied those allegations. John Drape told the BBC that they had 80 tonnes of woodchip on site to firm up the waterlogged ground, while adding: “We have meetings every six hours to discuss things like weather conditions and ground conditions. On Saturday night it became increasingly clear conditions were deteriorating and at midnight there was not one agency which felt it was safe to continue”.

Either way, giving the backlash online, it’s not a great start to the next phase of Y Not’s evolution, the festival having been acquired by Global’s Broadwick Live venture last year.

Festival-goers evacuated after stage catches fire at Tomorrowland Barcelona

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More than 22,000 festival-goers were evacuated from the Spanish offshoot of the Tomorrowland festival this weekend after the event’s main stage caught fire.

Belgian dance music festival Tomorrowland this year set up stages in a bunch of other cities around the world, live streaming what was happening on its main stage in Belgium onto large screens in those other cities, with special effects synchronised locally and the promise of a few DJs actually playing records in person.

It was the Barcelona edition of Tomorrowland Unite where the drama occurred. Staging caught fire mid-show on Saturday evening, with local fire officials saying that the stage area was “completely destroyed” and now “runs the risk of collapse”.

But the audience was successfully evacuated as soon as the fire began, so that there were no serious injuries, with about 20 people being treated for minor injuries or anxiety, according to the Associated Press.

A statement from Tomorrowland’s organisers confirmed: “Tonight, July 29th 2017, the Unite Barcelona stage caught fire due to a technical malfunction. Thanks to the professional intervention of the authorities all 22,000 visitors were evacuated safely and without reports of injuries. Authorities will follow up and continue the investigation with the local Spanish organiser of Unite”.

The Tomorrowland Unite show in Taiwan was also cancelled because of a typhoon which prompted local officials to cancel all outdoor activities taking place on Saturday. However, the spin-off proceedings went ahead in places like Germany, Dubai, Israel and South Korea.

Private equity backers could buy SoundCloud some extra time

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SoundCloud

Bad news if you’d put a SoundCloud wake in your diary for October. According to Bloomberg, two private equity outfits are close to pumping a chunk of change into the flagging digital music company, assuring its survival for the near future at least.

While the long-term future of SoundCloud has been far from assured for sometime now – as it tries to pivot its business away from primarily selling services to content creators and into the crowded marketplace of subscription streaming – the doom and gloom really set in after the company made 40% of its staff redundant. Talk of only having funding in place to take the firm into quarter four this year added to the predictions that SoundCloud could soon fold, but for a fire-sale acquisition by another major player in digital music.

However, SoundCloud has insisted throughout that it had a long-term future as an independent company. And if the two deals rumoured by Bloomberg do come through, then its near-term future is probably assured. Though, in the expensive business of streaming, long-term futures are rarely assured.

It’s thought the two private equity backers will buy into the SoundCloud company through separate deals, and will control more than half of the firm’s shares between them.

Apple discontinues iPod Nano and Shuffle

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Apple

It’s good that Apple discontinues iPod ranges from time to time, it reminds us that they still make standalone music players in the age of the smart phone. And aren’t you glad to be reminded of that? I know I am.

Apple last week announced that it was discontinuing the two economy versions of its once iconic digital music player, the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle. Both have already been removed from the Apple website and they will be dropping off the shelves on the high street too. If you want to carry on iPodding you’re going to have to do it via an iPod Touch. Which is just an iPhone without the useful bits. What a shame.

The tech giant said: “Today, we are simplifying our iPod line-up with two models of iPod Touch now with double the capacity starting at just $199 and we are discontinuing the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano”.

Presumably Apple will pension off the iPod Touch in a few years, just in time for the MP3 Revival, when all the cool kids start insisting that low bit rates, clunky devices and annoying DRM is the only way to properly experience music. Of course, technically it will be an AAC Revival. Unless the real hipsters push for an ATRAC Revival. Sony Connect anyone?

PC Music make album out of May’s Month Of Mayhem

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The PC Music collective decided that May just gone should be a Month Of Mayhem, and to that end put out new tracks, remixes and content each day of said month. Why am I telling you this now, in July? Because they have just put out a compilation containing the best bits from that mayhemic month of Mayness

The record also includes PC Music founder AG Cook’s cover of Aphex Twin’s ‘Windowlicker’, which he unveiled at the recent Field Day festival that came just after the Month Of Mayhem.

On that cover, Cook says: “My set at Field Day directly clashed with Aphex Twin’s headline show, so I thought it would be nice to do a full-length, note-for-note cover of ‘Windowlicker'”. Preparing for that, he added, required “a very intense 48 hours inside a windowless room – somewhere between a Braindance rehearsal and a labour of love”.

Here is the full track list. Listen to the ‘Windowlicker’ cover here.

Danny L Harle – Me4U (AG Cook Remix)
Danny Sunshine – Never Thought
Life Sim – Lightning Lipgloss Life
GFOTY – Month Of Mayhem
Spinee – Distant Promise
EASYFUN – Blink
AG Cook – Money On A Gold Plate
AG Cook – Cos I Love U
MC Boing – Dance Floor
Danny L Harle – 1UL
Lil Data – Casey Asked Me Am I Angry
Pobbles – Pobbles
DJ Warlord – Droom
Guys Next Door – Behind The Wall
Chris Lee – Real Love (Et Aliae Remix)
Chris Lee 0 Only You (Clark Remix)
AG Cook – Windowlicker
Lil Data – Temple (TidalCycles Edit)
Tonight.burns.red – Hi.tech

Bieber didn’t quit tour to spend more time with his God

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Justin Bieber

Look everybody, will you all stop blaming God for the cancellation of the remaining dates of Justin Bieber’s ‘Purpose’ world tour? It clearly had nothing to do with God. Nothing at all. And before you think, aha, that means it was Jesus. Nope. Not even the Holy Spirit had anything to do with this.

“The recent announcement by Justin Bieber about his tour does not involve Hillsong Church”, said a spokesperson for said church to the Daily Mail, after some chit chat to the effect that the pop star had bailed on his scheduled shows in North America and Asia in order to spend more time with his churchy buddies.

As previously reported, reps for the singer announced last week that: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber will cancel the remainder of the Purpose World Tour concerts. Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them. He thanks his fans for the incredible experience of the Purpose World Tour over last eighteen months”.

It was presumably the slightly vague official reason for the tour’s cancellation that led to rumour Bieber’s membership of the Hillsong Church was somehow relevant.

CMU Podcast: Music sales, mental health in music, and the Mercury Prize

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Entertainment Retailers Association

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including figures showing that UK music retail sales were up 11.2% in the first half of 2017 (all thanks to streaming), Help Musicians’ latest initiative to improve mental health in the music industry and this year’s Mercury Prize shortlist. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

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Stories discussed this week:

• Quincy Jones wins $9.4 million in royalties battle with Michael Jackson estate
• Streaming fuels 11.2% growth in music retail
• Help Musicians UK puts £100k into new mental health initiative
• Mercury Prize shortlist sticks to classic listing format

In brief:

• Facebook buys rights management start-up Source3
• Music education and grassroots venues must be better supported, or the music industry faces a “perfect storm”
• BBC to fill 2018’s Glasto gap with its own music festival

Also mentioned:

• The TW:TALKS podcast featuring comedian Phil Wang

Beatles company win in copyright battle of Shea Stadium concert footage

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The Beatles

A New York court has dismissed the legal action being pursued by Sid Bernstein Presents against Beatles company Apple Corps. The former sued the latter over who owns the copyright in footage of the band’s famous 1965 concert at the city’s Shea Stadium.

As previously reported, this dispute came off the back of the recent documentary film ‘The Beatles: Eight Days A Week’ which featured 30 minutes of footage of the 1965 show. Sid Bernstein Presents argued that it owned the rights in that footage because the company’s late founder – concert promoter Sid Bernstein – had instigated the concert and paid for the show to take place.

Apple Corps countered that the actual recording of the gig had been undertaken by Ed Sullivan’s Sullivan Productions and NEMS Enterprises, the company of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. The rights in the footage, it added, had then subsequently been acquired by Apple Corps and its sister company Subafilms.

When applying to the courts last year to have the case launched by Sid Bernstein Presents dismissed, Apple Corps dubbed the litigation “frivolous” and also noted that Bernstein himself never claimed to have ownership of the Shea Stadium footage in the nearly fifty years that lapsed between the show and his death in 2013.

According to Reuters, in siding with Apple Corp earlier this week, judge George Daniels wrote: “The relevant legal question is not the extent to which Bernstein contributed to or financed the 1965 concert; rather, it is the extent to which he ‘provided the impetus for’ and invested in a copyrightable work – eg the concert film. The complaint and relevant contracts clearly refute any such claim by Bernstein”.

To that end, Daniels granted the Beatles company its motion to have the case against it dismissed. Though it’s thought Sid Bernstein Presents could as yet appeal.

Madonna wins damages over MailOnline story about her adopted daughters

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Madonna

Madonna has accepted undisclosed damages from Daily Mail owner Associated Newspapers over a report on the two young sisters the singer adopted earlier this year.

Twin sisters Stella and Estere brought the number of Malawian children adopted by Madonna to four. The popstar objected to a MailOnline report from January, before the adoption of the two four year olds had been completed, which revealed their names, race and age.

This, Madonna argued, was a “serious invasion of privacy” that caused her “considerable personal distress”, and which could have jeopardised both the adoption process and the two children’s safety.

The singer took the matter to the High Court in London on the basis her privacy rights had been breached by the newspaper. According to the BBC, her legal rep told the court: “MailOnline published [its story] at a time when, as the journalist ought to have appreciated, Madonna would be powerless to protect the girls from harm”.

Lawyer Jenny Afia added: “Their actions could, in her view, have threatened the integrity and/or outcome of the adoption process which would have had potentially life-changing implications for the girls, as well as for Madonna and her family. In the circumstances, Madonna believes that it would – and should – have been self-evident to the reporter that the protection of the girls’ identities pending the decision about their potential adoption was likely to be vital for their safety and welfare”.

After the court hearing, Afia told reporters: “Madonna brought this litigation because the newspaper threatened her girls’ safety by naming them before they were adopted. She will always take all possible steps to protect her family’s well-being”.

The lawyer then confirmed that Associated Newspaper had agreed to settle, adding that the damages her client was now set to receive would be donated to a newly opened children’s hospital in Malawi.

Meanwhile, a MailOnline spokesperson was quoted by the Press Association as saying: “We had no intention whatsoever of exposing the girls to any harm and no reason to believe that they were in fact exposed to harm”.

WSTRN’s Akelle Charles sentenced to four years in prison

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WSTRN

Singer Akelle Charles, a member of R&B trio WSTRN, has been jailed for four years after being convicted of violent disorder.

Charles and his brother Naeem Phillip-Charles were accused of being part of a group of five men who stormed a flat in West London in January last year, attacking the occupants. Police believe the attack was related to a street robbery that had taken place earlier the same day. However, the 40 year old man and 60 year old woman in the flat had no connection to this incident.

Both brothers were found guilty of violent disorder, though were acquitted of aggravated burglary and possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. Charles was sentenced to four years in prison, and his brother three and a half years. The other three men involved in the attack have never been identified.

In a statement, Detective Constable Christopher McShane, from the Metropolitan Police’s Trident and Area Crime Command, said: “This was a shocking ordeal for the two innocent victims, one of whom is a grandmother and who was punched in the face. I am pleased that both men will now have to reflect on their actions in prison”.

WSTRN have not commented on the conviction. Their latest single, ‘Txtin’, was released last week.

Sony/ATV partners with social media-powered record label Heard Well

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Sony/ATV

Sony/ATV has announced a new music publishing partnership with social media powered label Heard Well.

Heard Well bills itself as “the first music label entirely powered by social tastemakers and their communities”. It basically gets ‘social media influencers’ to put together playlists. Then it releases those playlists as compilation albums. No, I’m not sure it’s quite as innovative as they make out either.

Anyway, this new deal will see Sony/ATV work with those playlist makers to identify acts to sign up to publishing deals. Which kind of sounds like the publisher is outsourcing its A&R. Some of the ‘influencers’ that Heard Well already works with are YouTubers Tyler Oakley, JC Caylen and The Dolan Twins, and Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas.

Sony/ATV’s US co-President Danny Strick says: “We’re excited to be working with Heard Well whose ground-breaking approach to music discovery in the world of social media is uncovering and promoting great new artists even before the usual research stage. With the launch of this A&R partnership we are looking forward to discovering some amazing new talent with them”.

Heard Well co-founder Connor Franta adds: “I am absolutely beside myself with how far Heard Well has come in just two years. From the compilations to the radio station to publishing, I’m THRILLED to see what Heard Well will tackle next. For now, we’re diving deep into the search for our first artist project and can’t wait to shed that spotlight sooner than you think”.

Heard Well already has an alliance with the Sony Music record company, having signed up to the label’s Red distribution business in March last year – and it now works with the consolidated Orchard.

Final Gregg Allman album to be released in September

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Gregg Allman

Rounder Recorders has announced that it will release the final Gregg Allman album, ‘Southern Blood’, on 8 Sep. The record was completed shortly before the musician’s death in May.

“As his producer, I was dedicated to helping Gregg crystallise his vision for the record and to help make sure that this vision made it to the tape”, says the album’s producer Don Was. “He was a musical hero of mine and, in later years, had become a good friend. The gravitas of this particular situation was not lost on me. Gregg was a sweet, humble man with a good heart and good intentions and it was a great honour to help him put his musical affairs in order and say a proper farewell”.

Recorded at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, where Allman’s brother Duane first began building his career, the album sees him perform songs by friends and some of his favourite artists, including Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Jackson Browne, Willie Dixon, Jerry Garcia Lowell George and Spooner Oldham.

Allman’s manager Michael Lehman says: “A constant discussion during all of my nearly fifteen years working with Gregg was his desire to return to Muscle Shoals. He always would talk about how he needed to get back to Fame Studios to bring him full circle”.

Here’s a brief clip from a behind-the-scenes documentary that will feature on the deluxe release of the album:

And here’s the record’s opening song, ‘My Only True Friend’, written by Allman himself:

The full tracklist is as follows:

1. My Only True Friend (Gregg Allman and Scott Sharrard)
2. Once I Was (Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett)
3. Going Going Gone (Bob Dylan)
4. Black Muddy River (Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter)
5. I Love The Life I Live (Willie Dixon)
6. Willin’ (Lowell George)
7. Blind Bats And Swamp Rats (Jack Avery)
8. Out Of Left Field (Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn)
9. Love Like Kerosene (Scot Sharrard)
10. Song For Adam (Jackson Browne)

Hamilton Leithauser covers Shaun MacGowan for anti-Islamophobia compilation

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Hamilton Leithauser

Former Walkmen vocalist Hamilton Leithauser has released his contribution to an upcoming anti-Islamophobia compilation, ‘Philia: Artists Rise Against Islamophobia’.

Leithauser has recorded a cover of Shaun MacGowan’s ‘Song With No Name’, and tells Consequence Of Sound of his desire to get involved: “With so many real problems in the world, it is disheartening that the President of the United States continues to preach base xenophobia, dim-witted anger and hate. His signature accomplishment thus far is the amplification of irrational fear and prejudice”.

The album is due for release on 19 Aug. Listen to Leithauser’s version of ‘Song With No Name’ here:

Here’s the full tracklist:

1. Mac DeMarco – Don Juan
2. Drop Electric – Aisha And The Knife
3. Heems – Blades
4. Hamilton Leithauser – Song With No Name (Shane MacGowan And The Popes cover)
5. Khruangbin – Ma Be Ham Nemiresim (Googoosh cover)
6. Fruit Bats – Salamander
7. Small Leaks Sink Ships – Sympathetic Resonance
8. Emel Mathlouthi – Insanity
9. The Dodos – Mirror Fake
10. Vetiver – Lumiere
11. John Vanderslice – Karma Police (Radiohead cover)

Mercury Prize shortlist sticks to classic listing format

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize shortlist for 2017 has been announced. You probably know that already. But what a list it is! Lovely formatting, bullet points and everything. Can’t fault it on its adherence to the rules of listing things. If I had to nit-pick, it would only be that some of the names on it are wrong. Otherwise, great job guys!

Commenting on the handiwork, the judging panel harmonised this statement: “This year’s Hyundai Mercury Prize shortlist celebrates the remarkable power of British music. What these artists have in common is an infectious pleasure in music making and an arresting sense of urgency about the music they make. They delight in exploring musical possibilities and refusing to be pinned down by genre conventions”.

They’re being all coy about the actual formatting of the list. No need to be modest, judges! The formatting really is impeccable. Let’s take a look:

• Alt-J – Relaxer
• Blossoms – Blossoms
• Dinosaur – Together, As One
• Ed Sheeran – Divide
• Glass Animals – How To Be A Human Being
• J Hus – Common Sense
• Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
• Loyle Carner – Yesterday’s Gone
• Sampha – Process
• Stormzy – Gang Signs & Prayer
• The Big Moon – Love In The Fourth Dimension
• The xx – I See You

Alphabetised by artist name too. Just wonderful. If there was a prize for formatting lists, I reckon this would win it. Simple and to the point. Love it. Great job.

As is tradition, the list will be edited further by controversially cutting it down to just one bullet at the Hammersmith Apollo on 14 Sep.

One Liners: Vevo, Kesha, Mick Jagger, more

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Kesha

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Vevo has promoted Claudia De Wolff to the role of Vice President, Creative Content And Programming. Her new boss Tom Connaughton reckons that she is “the right person” to do the job, which is handy.

• Kesha has released another new song, ‘Learn To Let Go’.

• Mick Jagger collaborated with Skepta and the results were… passable. Here’s ‘England Lost’.

• Tori Amos has announced that she will release new album, ‘Native Invaders’, on 8 Sep. From it, this is ‘Cloud Raiders’. She’ll also play three UK shows this autumn, starting with London’s Royal Albert Hall on 4 Oct.

• Major Lazer have released an interactive video for new single ‘Know No Better’, featuring Travis Scott, Camila Cabello and Quavo.

• Steve Aoki has released the video for ‘Night Call’, featuring Lil Yachty and Migos, from his latest album ‘Kolony’.

• Belle & Sebastian have released new single ‘We Were Beautiful’.

• Myrkur has released the second single from her upcoming second album ‘Mareridt’, which is out in September. This is ‘Ulvinde’.

• Sleep Party People have released new song ‘Fainting Spell’, and also announced that they will play The Lexington in London on 27 Nov.

• Katy Perry is hosting this year’s MTV VMAs in August. So now you know.

• Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily – updated every Friday.

Beef Of The Week #365: Arcade Fire v Arcade Fire

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Arcade Fire

In the 24 hour, on-demand, me-first culture of the modern world, in order to stand out a band needs a sustained gimmick. Arcade Fire’s gimmick has been to point out that this is the case. Over and over again. For weeks. With their new album, ‘Everything Now’, officially out today, this brings to an end (hopefully) a gruelling promotional campaign.

The conceit was this: The band signed a ‘360° agreement’ with fictional company Everything Now Corp. The made-up company adopted an aggressive marketing strategy, which saw it push the band into everything from giving away promotional cigarettes to entering a brand partnership with Ben & Jerry’s, resulting in a new Arcade Fire-themed ice cream flavour ‘My Body Is A Cone’.

In June, a fall out between the band and the company was staged, suggesting that Arcade Fire had been unwilling to engage with the campaign. “Everything Now Corp doesn’t want to work with a band that’s content to be the ninth biggest in the world (current rankings)”, said a statement. “We want to work with those who strive to be number one, and who will do what it takes to get there”.

That was five weeks ago, and the whole charade has been no less exhausting since then. In part, the problem is that the band seem keen to skewer every part of modern culture they can think of via their spoof marketing campaign marketing campaign. And they can think of a lot.

A significant part of this was publishing various bits of ‘fake news’, from an article on Win Butler’s exercise regime, to claims about the band’s links to extremist groups, another purporting that Terry Gilliam had been making a massively over-budget music video for the band since 2005, and another revealing that they had launched a number of lawsuits claiming ownership of the ‘Millennial Whoop’.

Then last week, they published an article on a site designed to look like Stereogum, called Stereoyum, mocking the music blog’s ‘Premature Evaluation’ feature, in which it publishes early reviews of new albums. Titling their feature ‘Premature Premature Evaluation’, the band predicted what the real site might say when they actually came to review the record. Stereogum responded by posting a review roughly confirming those predictions.

To say this joke has been laboured is an understatement. Particularly as the pay off doesn’t match the effort that’s gone into the set up. For the most part, the punchline is basically ‘we are pretending to do a thing that already happens for real’ without offering any real comment on it, humorous or otherwise.

This week, it all reached a strange climax, when a statement was published claiming that there would be a strict dress code for Arcade Fire’s album launch show in Brooklyn tonight. Ticketholders were emailed and told that they would have to arrive looking “hip and trendy”, with a long list of clothing items that would not be tolerated.

“Our dress code is HIP & TRENDY as if you are going to a concert or night out with friends”, said the email. “The event is standing-room-only so please plan accordingly. PLEASE DO NOT WEAR shorts, large logos, flip flops, tank tops, crop tops, baseball hats, solid white or red clothing. We reserve the right to deny entry to anyone dressed inappropriately”.

News of the dress code was reported (largely negatively) around the internet, only to be followed by a statement from the band saying that it wasn’t true and that fans could “wear whatever you want to any show”.

Win Butler replied to a tweet by Brooklyn Vegan directing readers to its report on the dress code by saying, “Hi. Not sure who drafted this email, but it 100% did not come from the band in any form. Not that it matters! Enjoy the clicks”.

At this point, it’s hard to know what the band were even lampooning. Was it the media for reporting on things that appear in apparently official announcements? Or people who make sure they look good for their Instagram selfie at every social event? Or were they mocking themselves, having previously announced and retracted a live show dress code back in 2014 when they weren’t in prankster mode?

The album launch email also announced that fans would have to lock their phones in a secure pouch before the performance, in order to stop them taking Instagram selfies or filming the show. Though this seems like such a thing that Arcade Fire would do, I’m still not entirely sure if that was part of the joke or not.

Who has time to even think about all this, when Everything Now Corp has already capitalised on the controversy of #dresscodegate by launching a competition asking fans to tweet photos of themselves in their least trendy outfits?

Over time, this whole promotional campaign will become a distant memory as it gets buried under the weight of the internet. Maybe that’s the point. Ultimately, of course, it will be the album that lives on. But at the end of this arduous campaign, who could really be enthused about listening to a collection of songs that explore the same themes?

Vigsy’s Club Tip: DJ Harvey at Ministry Of Sound

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Ministry Of Sound hosts DJ Harvey for the second edition of his four night residency at the South London superclub this Saturday. He’ll be playing all night long in The Box, as well as curating the entire line-up for the rest of the venue, which includes Bill Brewster, Terry Farley and Dave Jarvis.

As a teen, Harvey Bassett played drums in a punk band, before going on to find house and techno fame in the mid 90s. Along the way he released a rather well received ‘Late Night Sessions’ for MoS back in 1998.

DJ Harvey now apparently “tours the world at his own pace leaving plenty of time off for his other hobbies, surfing, collecting hi-fi, vinyl and riding vintage motorcycles”.

Rock on Harv, Rock on.

Saturday 29 Jul, Ministry Of Sound, 103 Gaunt Street, Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6DP, 11pm-6am, £26. More info here.

After a statutory music rights database is proposed in the US, ASCAP and BMI reveal their existing data initiative

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US collecting societies ASCAP and BMI yesterday announced that they are working on a combined music rights database that will be publicly available and which – the two organisations say – will “deliver an authoritative view of ownership shares in the vast majority of music licensed in the United States”.

The two societies say that they have been working on developing the combined database for over a year now and that they hope to launch it late next year. The new data platform will bring together the two societies’ existing databases and therefore list every song in which an ASCAP or BMI member has a stake. It will reveal what percentage of each song copyright each society represents, and also whether another collecting society in addition to ASCAP and BMI controls a portion of the work.

The lack of a decent music rights database providing information on the artists and writers behind each track and song – and the labels, distributors, publishers and collecting societies which exert some control over any one track or song – has been much discussed over the years, of course, and was a topic of conversation on the latest edition of the CMU Podcast.

There are plenty of bodies of music rights data around the world, with most of the collecting societies having a database of one description or another, though none of those databases are complete, and many aren’t publicly accessible. Though, since the music publishing sector’s attempt at building a one-stop Global Repertoire Database failed, various societies have been involved in initiatives to join their databases up, and to make some key information more widely available.

In the US, of course, there are four collecting societies just representing the performing rights in songs – whereas in many other countries there is just one – which has further fragmented the data. Hence the move by rivals ASCAP and BMI to more closely align their databases. That won’t be a complete database even for the US market though, because it doesn’t involve the other two performing rights organisations SESAC and GMR. But because co-ownership is so common with song copyrights, there will be quite a lot of crossover between the repertoires of the big two societies and the two smaller ones.

All that said, even if BMI, ASCAP, SESAC and GMR were all to pool their data, that would still only cover song copyrights, not recording copyrights. And for many licensees, one of the key bits of information required is confirmation of what songs are contained within what recordings. That’s something which requires the record industry’s collecting societies to collaborate with the music publishing sector’s societies – which is happening in some parts of the world, not least the UK.

ASCAP and BMI also have ambitions for their data project to widen its scope. While confirming that their data venture is initially about “aggregated information from BMI’s and ASCAP’s repertoire”, they added that: “The joint database will serve as a foundation that can evolve to include a broader range of music information across the entire industry”.

Confirming the data project yesterday, ASCAP chief Elizabeth Matthews said: “ASCAP and BMI are proactively and voluntarily moving the entire industry a step forward to more accurate, reliable and user-friendly data. We believe in a free market with more industry cooperation and alignment on data issues. Together, ASCAP and BMI have the most expertise in building and managing complex copyright ownership databases. With our combined experience, we are best positioned to make faster headway in creating a robust, cost effective market solution to meet the needs of the licensing marketplace”.

Meanwhile BMI boss Mike O’Neill said: “This is an important solution for the marketplace created by the experts who know their data best. We have always advocated for data transparency and supported the need for a user-friendly and comprehensive solution that would benefit music users and music creators alike. While BMI and ASCAP remain fierce competitors in all other regards, we recognise that our combined expertise allows us to create the best solution for our members and the marketplace. We’re excited by our momentum and the promise of what this database can become in the future”.

The timing of ASCAP and BMI’s announcement – about a database already a year into development but more than a year off completion – is telling. It follows the filing of a proposal in US Congress last week by Republican Jim Sensenbrenner that the US Copyright Office set up a one-stop publicly accessible music rights database, with copyright owners forced to provide their data. Music companies which did not would lose some of the remedies available to them if a third party then infringes their copyrights.

Although Sensenbrenner’s proposals do attempt to address the music rights data problem that has been identified by the music industry itself, many within the industry don’t see a government-led solution as a desirable option. Especially when accompanied by the ‘lose your remedies’ stick to force participation. To that end, ASCAP and BMI’s announcement yesterday could be translated into “hey lawmakers, we’re already fixing this problem”.

Hence the conclusion of yesterday’s statement, which reads: “ASCAP and BMI have proven their commitment to industry-wide data transparency by making public aggregated song share ownership through their respective online, searchable repertory databases – ASCAP’s ACE Repertory and BMI’s Repertoire Search. ASCAP’s and BMI’s respective databases will continue to be available on each organisation’s respective website during the creation and initial launch of the joint database”.

Though Sensenbrenner’s proposals already acknowledged and criticised the collecting societies’ existing databases. And yesterday the MIC Coalition – the group lobbying for the tech and radio sector, which has been busy of late championing Sensenbrenner’s proposals – has already declared that the ASCAP/BMI data venture “misses the mark”.

The lobbying group said: “We appreciate that ASCAP and BMI recognise that there is a problem in the current music licensing system, but what they are proposing is not a complete solution. Only Congress has the ability to create a neutral, reliable and comprehensive database”.

Quincy Jones wins $9.4 million in royalties battle with Michael Jackson estate

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Legendary record producer Quincy Jones was awarded $9.4 million yesterday at the conclusion of his legal battle over unpaid royalties against the Michael Jackson estate.

As previously reported, Jones accused Sony Music and MJJ Productions – one of Michael Jackson’s companies, now controlled by the Jackson estate – of screwing him out of $30 million in royalties. Mainly in relation to projects and deals done since the late king of pop’s death in 2009 which exploited the famous Jackson recordings that Jones produced.

MJJ countered that Jones was incorrectly interpreting contracts he signed with Jackson in 1978 and 1985, on which the royalty claims were based.

Although the $9.4 million the jury awarded Jones is considerably less than he thought he was due, it is also a whole lot more than the Jackson estate wanted to pay. Reps for the estate conceded that, as a result of accounting errors, the producer had been underpaid on some royalties, but they argued that the unpaid sums came to less than $400,000. Meaning, all in all, yesterday’s result was seen very much as victory for Jones.

He said in a statement: “As an artist, maintaining the vision and integrity of one’s creation is of paramount importance. I, along with the team I assembled with Michael, took great care and purpose in creating these albums, and it has always given me a great sense of pride and comfort that three decades after they were originally recorded, these songs are still being played in every corner of the world”.

The statement went on: “This lawsuit was never about Michael, it was about protecting the integrity of the work we all did in the recording studio and the legacy of what we created. Although this judgement is not the full amount that I was seeking, I am very grateful that the jury decided in our favour in this matter. I view it not only as a victory for myself personally, but for artists’ rights overall”.

Lawyers for the Jackson estate said they were both disappointed and surprised by the ruling, though conceded that jury-based judgements are always harder to predict. They told reporters: “While the jury denied Quincy Jones $21 million – or more than two-thirds of what he demanded – from the estate of Michael Jackson, we still believe that giving him millions of dollars that he has no right to receive under his contracts is wrong”.

They added that the ruling effectively rewrote “contracts that Mr Jones lived under for more than three decades, admitted he never read, referred to as ‘contract, montract’, and told the jurors he didn’t ‘give a damn’ about”. They concluded: “Any amount above and beyond what is called for in his contracts is too much and unfair to Michael’s heirs. Although Mr Jones is portraying this is a victory for artists’ rights, the real artist is Michael Jackson and it is his money Mr Jones is seeking”.

The estate is expected to appeal the decision.

Lawyer working for Fyre Festival founder steps down over unpaid bills

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A lawyer working for the co-founder of that Fyre Festival shambles has announced his plans to become a lawyer not working for the co-founder of that Fyre Festival shambles. Because, you see, Billy is broke.

As much previously reported, Billy McFarland co-founded the Fyre Festival, and an accompanying talent booking app, with Ja Rule. The festival was meant to be a luxury experience on an island in the Bahamas, but collapsed before it had even started as it became clear the required infrastructure for such an event had not been put in place and too many artists and suppliers hadn’t been paid.

McFarland and his companies are now on the receiving end of a plethora of lawsuits from angry ticket-buyers, suppliers and financial backers. He also faces criminal charges of fraud over allegations he misled investors about the finances of his enterprise.

It was after his arrest on the fraud charges that McFarland told the court he was broke – so much so he was being represented by a public defender in the criminal case. Now a lawyer hired by McFarland to defend one of the lawsuits filed by an investor, Oleg Itkin, has announced he is stepping down due to unpaid bills.

According to Law 360, Michael Levine of Levine And Associates told the New York courts yesterday that he would no longer be working on the case, and that he would file the formal paperwork to that effect by tomorrow. Levine said he simply couldn’t represent a client who wasn’t paying him for his time.

The Itkin litigation has been put on hold until September pending the appointment of a new attorney to represent the defendants. Yeah, good luck with that.

Lyor Cohen confirms more integration planned for Google Play and YouTube music apps

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So, you all remember that Google has a streaming music service, right? Of course you do. But no, I don’t mean YouTube. I mean the Google Play streaming music service. Oh yeah, Google Play has a streaming music service!

YouTube music chief Lyon Cohen has seemingly confirmed plans at Google to bring together the web giant’s two music offers – the Google Play service and YouTube’s music app – while speaking at the New Music Seminar conference in New York.

According to The Verge, Cohen talked about aligning the music elements of Google Play and YouTube after being asked why the latter’s subscription service Red isn’t more popular with music fans. “The important thing is combining YouTube Red and Google Play Music, and having one offering”, he said.

YouTube Red subscribers already get access to Google Play Music as part of their subscription, though the tie-up is somewhat confusing, and all the more so because of the standalone YouTube Music app that is available in some markets.

There has been chatter for some time about the two Google music services being better integrated, and that was further fuelled when the web firm combined its Google Play and YouTube music teams earlier this year. Cohen’s comments seem to confirm such product integration is now underway, but it’s still not clear whether that will actually involve abandoning one of the brands or apps down the line.

Following Cohen’s remarks, Google seemed most concerned about telling everyone that, whatever happens, it’s not going to happen overnight. It told The Verge: “Music is very important to Google and we’re evaluating how to bring together our music offerings to deliver the best possible product for our users, music partners and artists. Nothing will change for users today and we’ll provide plenty of notice before any changes are made”.

WeTransfer offers $10,000 grants to ex-SoundCloud employees

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WeTransfer President Damian Bradfield is offering $10,000 grants to the 173 SoundCloud employees who found themselves laid off when the company downsized earlier this month.

“Hidden at the core of this crazy notion is a very serious idea”, he writes in a post on Medium. “We need to keep innovating. Everyone – the folks at SoundCloud included – would love to see these former employees go on to develop great things. $10,000 isn’t enough to build an entirely new company, but it is enough to get an idea going, to design something, or have it designed. It’s enough to get an iOS developer friend to build an MVP that we could introduce or shine a spotlight on. That is, after all, how WeTransfer started”.

The funding comes with a few caveats and in a more detailed document some ground rules are laid out. Recipients of the grant must have been employed by SoundCloud up to July this year and must not have already accepted a new job. They will also have to prove that they intend to spend the money on innovation in music and have a plan to do so.

“We want people to create”, says Bradfield. “What could be better? We want to see amazing proposals. Start something – that’s what we’re saying. We’ll do whatever we can to help, but we aren’t VC’s. This isn’t an investment. It’s not a loan. It’s an opportunity. We aren’t trying to compete and don’t want to own anything. It’s a chance to have some fun”.

The deadline for applications is 21 Aug.

Radio 1 announces Live Lounge Month line-up

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Radio 1 has announced the full line-up for this year’s Live Lounge Month, which will run throughout September as part of the station’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

Joining previously announced acts like Foo Fighters and Royal Blood are Jay-Z, Chris Martin, Harry Styles, Rita Ora, Pink, Lorde and more. The final night of the series on 29 Sep will feature a special studio concert from an as-yet-unnamed act.

“This year’s Live Lounge Month has me more excited for our listeners than ever”, says Live Lounge host Clara Amfo. “From LA back to our studios in the UK, there are 50 great years of Radio 1 to celebrate with all of the artists and I can’t wait for it to kick off!”

Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper adds: “I love Live Lounge Month – the world’s biggest artists, in the world famous Radio 1 studio, playing the best music in the world”.

Here’s the full schedule:

1 Sep: Foo Fighters
4 Sep: Chris Martin
5 Sep: The Script
6 Sep: The xx
7 Sep: 30 Seconds To Mars
8 Sep: Pink
11 Sep: The Killers
12 Sep: London Grammar
13 Sep: Harry Styles
14 Sep: Stormzy
15 Sep: Miley Cyrus
18 Sep: Rita Ora
19 Sep: Wolf Alice
20 Sep: George Ezra
21 Sep: Rag N Bone Man
22 Sep: Jay-Z
25 Sep: Craig David
26 Sep: Royal Blood
27 Sep: Rudimental with James Arthur
28 Sep: Lorde
29 Sep: TBA

Vinyl Festival cancelled

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An event claiming to be the UK’s “first vinyl festival” has been cancelled. The Vinyl Festival was due to take place in September, but has been pulled “due to unforeseen circumstances”.

Billed as an “immersive vinyl experience”, the event was to take over London’s Printworks venue with 100 stalls for indie labels and other record sellers to sell records, plus a team of vinyl evaluation experts on hand. Huey Morgan, Tim Burgess, Edith Bowman and Steve Lamacq were also booked to do live Q&As and DJ sets. This opportunity to go into a room and mainly buy vinyl would only have set you back £40. Bargain.

In a statement yesterday, organisers said: “Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to make the difficult decision to cancel the Vinyl Festival due to take place on 23 and 24 Sep. It’s been a tough decision to make but sometimes even with the best laid plans these things happen”.

Maybe they can have another go next year and bill it as the ‘Vinyl Festival revival’.

Charli XCX releases Boys

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Charli XCX is back with another single from her still to be released third album. New song ‘Boys’ joins last year’s ‘After The Afterparty’ on the LP’s tracklist.

With the song produced by Jerker Hansson and Cass Lowe, Charli XCX co-directed the video with Sarah McColgan. Of the visuals, she says: “‘Boys’ is my favourite music video I’ve ever made. I just wanna say a big thanks to all the boys involved, for totally embracing and understanding my vision and being excited by the concept”.

Watch the video here:

One Liners: Emily Haines, Converge, Chelsea Wolfe, more

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Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Metric’s Emily Haines has released another track off her upcoming new solo album. Here’s ‘Planets’.

• Converge are back with two new songs, ‘I Can Tell You About Pain’ and ‘Eve’.

• Chelsea Wolfe has released new song ‘Vex’. Her new album, ‘Hiss Spun’, is out on 22 Sep.

• Field Music affiliates The Cornshed Sisters have released their debut single, ‘The Message’. Their debut album, ‘Honey & Tar’, is out on Memphis Industries on 3 Nov.

• Corbin – the artist fka Spooky Black – has released new single ‘Ice Baby’.

• Anna Straker is back with new single ‘Ignite Me’.

• Producer Benedikt Frey is set to release new album ‘Artificial’ on 15 Sep. From it, this is first single ‘H For Hysteria’.

• All Them Witches have released the video for new single ‘Bull’, taken from their latest album ‘Sleeping Through The War’.

• Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily – updated every Friday.

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