Nov 29, 2017 • 1 min read

One Liners: Lovebox, Metallica, Eminem, more

ASCAP has hired Stephanie Ruyle as Executive Vice President of Licensing, Columbia UK has two new MDs, and Lovebox and Citadel are moving to Brockwell Park.

Other notable announcements and developments today... • ASCAP has hired Stephanie Ruyle as its new Executive Vice President Of Licensing. She replaces Vincent Candilora, who is retiring. • Sony's Columbia UK label has not one but two new Managing Directors. Stacey Tang has been promoted into the role, while Manish Arora has been brought in from Universal's Polydor. • The Lovebox and Citadel festivals have announced that they are following Field Day in moving from East London's Victoria Park to South London's Brockwell Park. • Metallica have launched a website for their All Within My Hands Foundation. The charity has also been announced as a recipient of funding from a new initiative from Spotify and Starbucks, which is dishing out $1 million to charitable ventures. Part of that money will also go to Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation and Chance The Rapper's Social Works. • Eminem's new album 'Revival' will be released on 15 Dec. So now you know. • Billy Corgan's silent film, 'Pillbox', is out. "I thought it was a different approach to listening to an album, to watch it in essence with a related, albeit non-linear, silent movie", he says. • US Girls, aka Meg Remy, has announced that she will release new album, 'In A Poem Unlimited', on 16 Feb. Out now is new single 'Velvet 4 Sale', of which she says: "Men are lucky women (and children) have yet to take up arms. And although I hope this never happens, and I completely disagree that violence is ever effective, this very idea was ripe for a song". • Juanita Stein has released the video for 'Black Winds' from her 'America' album. She'll headline a show at the Shacklewell Arms in London tonight. • Nightwave has released new track, 'Limelight', taken from new EP 'Sanctuary', which is out on 2 Feb. • All Points East has announced that Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds will headline one of the new East London festival's standalone shows on 3 Jun. Support will come from Patti Smith, St Vincent and Courtney Barnett. I mean, fucking hell, we've all got to go to that, haven't we? Tickets on sale on Friday. • Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily - updated every Friday.

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