CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Together For Palestine, Sasha Keable, Sean Trelford, Deca OTA + Sex Mask…
MIT study “marks a new anchor for meaningful actions” to make live music more environmentally sustainable
MIT has published the results of its study into the carbon emissions of live music in the US and UK, part of an initiative backed by Coldplay. The academics behind the study say their stats and report should be used to inform “a new era of sustainability practices across all of live music”…
Pro Music Rights threatens litigation over Congressman’s letter and BMI’s criticisms
Earlier this week US Congress member Scott Fitzgerald asked the FTC to investigate if collecting society Pro Music Rights was guilty of “deceptive practices”. The rights organisation says it is now considering legal action in relation to that letter and documents it cited, including one from BMI…
Recording studios and music venues face closure if government doesn’t revise business rates, industry tells ministers
The UK music industry wants reforms to business rates to protect studios and venues. In two letters to the government, the industry says studios should be eligible for rates relief, while ministers need to mitigate the negative impact of recent changes made to business rates on venues big and small…
Indie publishers make demands of collecting societies as they start to negotiate AI deals
Indie music publishers are becoming more vocal about AI licensing as the majors start to announce their big AI deals. With collecting societies set to do the deal-making for many song repertories, the IMPF has distributed key principles that it says those societies should adopt when doing the deals…
🎧 Approved: PVA
PVA make music that feels bodily and obsessive. They tap into something potent - close to the shoddy, shady spirit of early Chicago house but sharpened into something visceral and contemporary.
New single ‘Send’ is a glimpse into their upcoming album’s core fixations: physicality and desire…
With US radio stations making $14 billion, it’s time for them to stop robbing musicians, says Gene Simmons
The fact AM/FM radio stations in the US do not have to pay royalties to artists and labels was back in the spotlight in Washington yesterday. Gene Simmons told Congress members that a $14 billion radio industry not paying artists who make the recordings its stations play is basically “robbery”…
Bob Vylan sue RTÉ over claims they instigated “antisemitic chant” during Glastonbury set
Bob Vylan have filed a defamation lawsuit in Ireland against Irish broadcaster RTÉ over a news report in June that said the duo’s Glastonbury performance included an “antisemitic chant”. The band’s lawyers say that claim is “categorically denied by our clients” and “entirely untrue”…
US collecting societies AllTrack and Pro Music Rights “feign legitimacy” says congressman, calls for FTC investigation
Earlier this year the US Copyright Office undertook an inquiry into why there are so many songwriter performing rights organisations in the US. One of the Congress members who prompted that inquiry now wants the FTC to investigate if two of the smaller PROs are employing illegal deceptive practices…
EU report says statutory licensing is the best way to balance copyright and AI
A report on copyright and AI, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, concludes that the best approach to balance the interests of AI firms and rightsholders would be a statutory licence for AI training, something neither big tech nor rights owners are likely to support…
After King Gizzard boycotted Spotify, tracks by an AI-clone of the band started streaming
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are among the artists boycotting Spotify, though that didn’t stop AI-generated covers of their songs appearing under the artist name King Lizard Wizard. Those have now been removed, but have prompted more debate over how streaming services deal with AI clones…
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