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One Liners: Little Mix, Oliver Heldens, Capitol Music Group, more
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 6 November 2020
LABELS & PUBLISHERS
DJ and producer Oliver Heldens has announced a new record label, OH2, that will operate alongside his existing Heldeep Records, to focus on commercial dance music. “I haven’t really been able to focus on the more dance/pop side of things with [the more club-orientated] Heldeep, so my team and I decided to expand the Heldeep label group and launch OH2 Records, which will focus on the more melodic and dance/pop-leaning music”.
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APPOINTMENTS
The Chair and CEO of Universal’s Capitol Music Group in the US, Steve Barnett, has announced that he is retiring. Current President of Capitol Records, Jeff Vaughn, will become CMG Chair and CEO, while current CMG COO Michelle Jubelirer will take the extra title of President. “This has been an incredible journey, and I’ve been tremendously fortunate to work with such amazing people along the way”, says Barnett. Byeeeeeeee!
B2B streaming platform and service provider Tuned Global has appointed Andrew Stess to the newly created role of Head Of Sales And Business Development for the USA. “It’s an honour to join Tuned Global at such an exciting point in the company’s history”, says Stess. “I believe that they have a unique product to offer, and so I’m delighted to be playing a key role as they reshape the B2B music tech space in the USA and beyond”.
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RELEASES
Little Mix have released their brand new single ‘Confetti’. Oh, and also their brand new album ‘Confetti’, their first since crowbarring themselves away from the control of Simon Cowell.
Miley Cyrus has released a mashup of her recent single ‘Midnight Sky’ and Steve Nicks’s ‘Edge Of Seventeen’, featuring new vocals from Nicks, called ‘Edge Of Midnight’.
System Of A Down have released their first new music for fifteen year with two songs, ‘Protect The Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’. Proceeds from sales on Bandcamp will be donated to the Armenia Fund.
Gorillaz have released the video for ‘Song Machine’ track ‘The Valley Of The Pagans’, featuring Beck.
Bugzy Malone has released new single, ‘Doe’d Up’.
Sega Bodega and Låpsley have got together for new single ‘Make U Stay’. “We wrote this track together in my Tottenham studio the first time we ever met”, says Låpsley. “It came so quickly; he showed me the track and I was immediately hooked from the strings, and then within the hour the top line was recorded. I thought the bombastic strings needed some intense lyrics, so it’s all about jealousy”.
Jade Bird has released new single ‘Headstart’.
Larry The Pink Human have released a new single featuring Idles’ Joe Talbot, titled ‘Wasted Days (Inbetweens)’. “It’s a track about not knowing the magic til the magic is behind us”, says Talbot.
BiSH have released new single ‘Story Of Duty’, which ties in with the release of the new ‘Call Of Duty’ video game, ‘Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’. It’s worth knowing that before you watch the video, although even then it’s quite a thing.
Hello Cosmos have released new single ‘Dream Harder’.
Fable has released new single ‘Thirsty’, the first track taken from up debut album which is set for release next year.
Mallard The Wonderdog has released new album ‘Cookery Tips For The Apocalypse’. His first album since 2017, it was recorded in (and about) lockdown. “I wasn’t planning to make another album but then the old global pandemic hit and I did”, he explains.
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GIGS & TOURS
The Cribs will perform live from The Cavern Club in Liverpool on 21 Nov, and you will be able to watch them from your lockdown bunker on that internet thing. Tickets will cost you £10 and are available here.
Slipknot have announced Pulse Of The Maggots Fest – an online event featuring performances from 20 emerging bands. Taking place on 13 Nov, with an 8pm start UK time, the line-up will feature Hacktivist, October Ends, PRXJEK, Cerberus, Orbit Culture, Tallah, dEMOTIONAL, Vended, Scarlet, Year Of The Knife, Introtyl, Wargasm, Diamond Construct, VCTMS, Death Blooms, Death Tour, Thrown into Exile, Once Awake, 156 Silence and I Revolt. More information is a thing that you will find here.
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