🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Juliet Kennedy
This week, we caught up with Juliet Kennedy; founder and curator of Brick Lane Jazz Festival…
Mitch Winehouse loses legal battle over Amy Winehouse auction proceeds
Two friends of Amy Winehouse have defeated a lawsuit filed against them by her father, Mitch Winehouse. The dispute related to auctions of items connected to Amy, with Mitch claiming her friends “concealed” they were personally selling items alongside those put up for sale by his daughter’s estate…
Live Nation pays $9.9 million to settle yet another investigation into dodgy ticketing practices
Live Nation has reached a $9.9 million settlement with the Attorney General of Washington DC, who accused the company of employing dodgy ticket selling tactics. Its lawyers also want the damages part of last week’s antitrust ruling set aside based on a dispute over an expert witness’s maths…
🎧 Approved: Finn Askew
Finn Askew doesn’t sound like a Bieber knockoff, he just happens to be fishing in the same water, and pulling out something of his own. ‘BLUEBOY’, his new six track mixtape, is lush slow jams done right, built on minimalist trap drums and close-mic vocals…
Drake says judge in defamation case didn’t properly consider whether “reasonable people” might believe slur in Kendrick’s diss track
Drake still wants Universal Music held liable for defamation over its release of Kendrick Lamar’s “certified pedophile” lyric in diss track ‘Not Like Us’. With defamation cases, context is everything, but Drake now argues the judge who dismissed his defamation lawsuit considered the wrong context…
Kanye tour cancellations build, as Polish and Swiss shows are pulled
Kanye West’s upcoming tour continues to contract amid ongoing controversies over past antisemitic conduct. A concert in Poland, only announced last week, has already been cancelled after the country’s culture minister criticised the show. A stadium in Switzerland has also declined to host the rapper…
MPs call for the creation of a music fan association - and for the government to present new ticket touting laws in Parliament “without delay”
Parliament’s culture select committee has published a report based on the input of thousands of music fans. It calls for the creation of a new Music Fan Association, as well as urging the government to act on the agent of change principle and to hurry up with its promised new ticket touting laws…
Live Nation loses monopoly trial in “historic and resounding victory for artists and fans”: but what happens next?
Live Nation lost the big antitrust legal battle in the US, with a jury concluding that it operates an illegal monopoly that negatively impacts on artists and fans. It was a dramatic conclusion to a seven week trial - but how will it now impact on the operations of Live Nation, in the US and beyond?…
🎧 Approved: Kat Duma
Kat Duma crafts sound with dubby rhythms, ethereal pop textures, and moments that shimmer with recognition before slipping away again. New single 'Mirrored Water' has a quietly Madonna-esque quality, a bit like 'Frozen', but pulled somewhere a little more whimsical…
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