DEALS
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Music AI company Boomy has announced a partnership with Warner Music's services division ADA. Under the alliance, select artists utilising the Boomy platform in their music-making will get distribution and marketing support from ADA.
APPOINTMENTS
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Venue operator ASM Global has appointed Anna Sjölund to the newly created role of European Programming Director. She will be based in the firm's Stockholm office with a particular focus on programming at ASM's Nordic venues, but also offering support across the rest of Europe.
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London’s Wembley Stadium has promoted its Head Of Event Operations Paul Smyth to the role of General Manager, responsible for overseeing events at the stadium as well as managing its day-to-day operations.
LABELS & PUBLISHERS
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As COP28 - the latest edition of the United Nations' climate change conference - kicks off today, the three major record companies have announced the launch of a Music Industry Climate Collective, described as a "new music industry alliance to address the pressing challenges and profound changes in global climate". US indie label trade group A2IM will also be an adviser to the collective. In Europe, indie label trade group IMPALA has been doing lots of work in this space for some time and has posted an update on that work ahead of COP28.
RELEASES
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MGMT have released new single ‘Bubblegum Dog’ from new album ‘Loos Of Life’, which is out on 23 Feb.
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Eels have released Christmas single ‘Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This’. “I mean, seriously”, says frontman Mark Everett. “Haven’t I always been good to you, Christmas? Enough with the coal in my stocking. For fuck’s sake”.
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The Jesus And Mary Chain have announced that they will release new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’ on 8 Mar. “Don’t expect ‘the Mary Chain goes jazz’”, says Jim Reid. “People should expect a Jesus And Mary Chain record, and that’s certainly what ‘Glasgow Eyes’ is. Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take its course”. Out now is new single ‘Jamcod’. UK tour dates are also set for March.
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Louis Culture has released new double A-side single ‘Grammar/No Love’. He will also be touring the UK in April, including a show at London’s Village Underground on 18 Apr.
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Unflirt has released new EP ‘April’s Nectar’, which includes new single ‘White Noise’. She is set to play her debut headline show at Laylow in London on 6 Dec.
AWARDS
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The Nordoff & Robbins Silver Clef Awards will return to Grosvenor House in London on 5 Jul 2024, it has been announced. Early bird and split payment offers are available upon tables booked before the end of January. More details here.