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One Liners: Downtown, Florence And The Machine, Jonas Brothers, more
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 23 April 2019
Other notable announcements and developments today…
• Downtown Music Publishing has launched a joint venture with independent publisher Cowboys & Pirates. “We are running the marathon with our songwriters”, says the latter’s Ty Baisden. Actually, they’re going to develop new songwriting talent in R&B and hip hop. No marathons will be run. The first two signings are instrumentalist John Key and songwriter James ‘SuperChilly’ Carver, who may or may not also enjoy long distance running.
• Kobalt has signed a worldwide publishing deal with producer duo Loud Luxury, aka Andrew Fedyk and Joe Depace. “We are THRILLED”, says Fedyk.
• BMG has signed The Allman Betts Band to release their debut album, ‘Down To The River’, across the globe. The band is led by Devon Allman and Duane Betts, sons of the Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts. “We’re really psyched”, says Allman. “We are very happy”, says Betts. “We are extremely grateful”, says BMG’s John Loeffler.
• The dance and electronic music focused Brighton Music Conference takes place this Friday and has published its full schedule online. CMU insights will be there to explain what exactly all that copyright directive and article thirteen shouting was all about.
• Florence And The Machine have released ‘Jenny Of Oldstones’, which featured in episode two of the new series of ‘Game Of Thrones’. Played over the credits, it is a version of a song performed by character Podrick Payne earlier in the episode. Listen here.
• Those Jonas Brothers have announced that they will release a whole new album, titled ‘Happiness Begins’, on 7 Jun. Imagine that.
• IMPALA has awarded its European Album Of The Year award to Viagra Boys for their album ‘Street Worms’.
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