🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Brad Bushby
This week, we caught up with Brad Bushby, freelance events and tour representative and founder of the Brighton Music Cup.…
Primary Wave in talks to buy Kobalt
More mergers are incoming in the world of music rights. Following the news that BMG is in talks to buy Concord, it’s now looking likely Kobalt will be bought by Primary Wave. It means both the bigger independent music publishers will likely get even bigger in 2026…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Angèle, Justice, Shelf Lives, Nanasenda, Underscores + Lime Garden…
Judge looks set to tell Live Nation to quit dilly dallying as DoJ gears up for its day in court
The big US antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation is due to get to trial next week. However, Live Nation wants to delay the proceedings by appealing a recent ruling made in the case. But the judge overseeing the legal battle, Arun Subramanian, says he’s inclined to deny Live Nation’s request…
Ador founder Min Hee-Jin tells HYBE to grow up and leave her and NewJeans alone
Ador founder Min Hee-Jin has offered her former business partner HYBE a $17.9 million truce. A Korean court recently ordered HYBE to pay Min $17.9 million to buy back her Ador shares. But she says she’ll give that payment up if HYBE calls off all the other litigation relating to her and NewJeans…
🎧 Approved: Kerala Dust
Kerela Dust’s sound is able to exist in a liminal space: loose-limbed synths, stretched transitions, but with that undeniable nocturnal mood that is fit for the club but still able to comfort in the comedown hours. However, unlike the others, new single ‘WHITE NOISE’ has no interest in slowing down…
Lambeth Council gives go ahead for Brockwell Live, but councillor says “the local community don’t feel like they’ve been heard”
Members of Lambeth Council’s planning committee have unanimously approved plans for Brockwell Live to be staged in the London borough’s Brockwell Park again this summer. That’s despite high profile opposition from local residents who, according to one councillor, “don’t feel like they’ve been heard”…
Suno is a feral pig rampaging through a well-tended garden, say creator orgs
A coalition of creator organisations has published a scathing open letter comparing Suno to jewel thieves, arguing the AI platform built its $2.45bn valuation on unlicensed scraping, pays almost nothing to creators, and has become a fraud-fodder factory on an industrial scale…
Why did Live Nation delete a bombastic article written by its top lawyer attacking the DOJ?
Live Nation’s top lawyer Dan Wall wrote a rant about the DoJ’s big antitrust lawsuit against the company last week. It was published on Live Nation’s investor portal, only to be yanked down shortly after. Live Nation didn’t want people to see it - but why?…
Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota said “independent music is not raw material for tech companies to exploit without consent” before quitting to join AI music scraper-in-chief Suno
No more TED talks, daddy! Ex-Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota has moved to the dark side and joined one of the very companies he railed against. Having defended Merlin members against the predations of big tech, Sirota has signed up as big cheese of all things commercial at music scraping slop factory Suno…
🎧 Approved: Cinema Stereo
Nashville’s Cinema Stereo deal in widescreen rock that feels rooted rather than retro - big melodic instincts, 70s barnets, songs built to carry. New single 'So Sorry, My Dear' is all driving and open-hearted, complete with guitar solos built for being played on their knees…
Lambeth Council set to rubberstamp Brockwell Live for 2026, despite best efforts of local NIMBYs
Lambeth Council will tomorrow decide whether to allow the Brockwell Live festivals to take place in Brockwell Park this summer. This year the events are going through a full planning permission process after local residents successfully challenged the way the council previously fast-tracked approval…
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