CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Venbee, LA Priest, Ledbyher, Steve Lacy + Tinashe…
Colorado creates new kind of limited company for artists and creators
A new kind of limited company has been created in Colorado that is specifically designed to suit and protect the interests of artists and creators. It’s based on a concept proposed last year by Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler, who says other US states are considering following Colorado’s lead…
CISAC sets out objectives for protecting human creativity amid “rapid advancements in AI”
CISAC used its General Assembly in Paris today to launch a new declaration - the Paris Commitment - via which creators call on policymakers and the industry to ensure “human creativity” is “protected, respected and sustained” as “rapid advancements in AI risk undermining the value of creative work”…
🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos
You can tell Charlotte Dos Santos relishes following her own creative intuition, which is why she’s had comparisons to Solange. New single ‘Roses’ is a good place to start, richly textured lush, cinematic chamber soul, with a slightly psychedelic-jazz arrangement…
Streaming services celebrate as Canadian government scraps streaming levy plan and announces alternative $600 million cultural funding package
The Canadian government seems to have scrapped the controversial streaming levy which would have seen a 5% levy charged on music and video streaming services. Instead it is committing to introduce “federal investments” of $600 million a year to support Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors…
Directors of DEAG subsidiary tickets.ie will appoint liquidators
Irish ticketing platform Tickets.ie is calling in the liquidators. DEAG became a majority shareholder in the company in 2022 after the ticket seller restructured to meet financial challenges caused by the COVID shutdown. It’s not clear how many promoters will be impacted by the company’s collapse…
First Scottish edition of WOMAD cancelled due to low ticket sales
The first ever Scottish edition of WOMAD was due to take place in Glasgow next month via a partnership with Celtic Connections and Glasgow Life. However, organisers have cancelled the event because ticket sales “did not reach the level required” to “deliver” the festival “in its inaugural year”…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Lucius Yeo
This week, we caught up with Lucius Yeo; founder of Copacetic PR…
US court overturns 2 Live Crew’s successful termination rights claim, but on a bankruptcy technicality
In 2024 members of 2 Live Crew successfully reclaimed rights in their 1980s recordings by exercising the termination right in US copyright law. However, an appeals court has stopped the rights reversion because one of those members, Mark Ross, lost his termination right when he went bankrupt in 2000…
Suno really doesn’t want you to know how many audio files it copied when training its music AI model
Universal and Sony are still suing Suno, and have accessed lots of info about the AI company in the process. Suno is very keen for one bit of data, the total number of audio files it used when training its AI, to stay confidential, despite a New York journalist’s efforts to force full transparency…
IMPALA backs French indie sector’s CD and vinyl recycling programme as it expands to consumers
It’s EU Green Week, which has prompted pan-European indie label trade group IMPALA to put the spotlight on its French member’s CD and vinyl recycling programme. That scheme, called ReDisco, is being extended this month so that consumers as well as labels can recycle unwanted records…
🎧 Approved: Girls In Hawaii
Despite their name, Girls In Hawaii are neither from Hawaii nor girls; they’re two pairs of brothers from Belgium who make very good melancholic and slightly unsettling indie pop/rock. New single ‘Eldorado’ is no exception…
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