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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from The Drums and Genesis Owusu, bed, Shygirk, Fontaines D.C. + Snoh Aalegra…
Polydor President among the senior execs to depart as Universal completes its two year €250 million saving corporate “redesign”
Back in 2024 Universal Music said it would find €250 million in annual savings via a “strategic organisational redesign” that would be complete by the end of 2026. With that deadline looming, yesterday the major announced a series of structural changes with a number of senior execs departing…
🎧 Approved: Radie Peat
Radie Peat of Lankum releases her debut solo album in November, fifteen years in the making. Opening single ‘Hares On The Mountain’ is a beautifully wry and subversive folk song. If The Stranglers had been a folk outfit, this is how they might have done it…
Summer Walker legal drama doubles as she battles to dump management as well as her label
Following the news Universal’s Interscope label is suing Summer Walker after she used California’s seven year rule to exit a record deal early, it’s now come to light that Walker is suing her management firm LVRN in a bid to end her deal with that company too, which she says was onerous and unfair…
🌅 Horizon Leaders - Billy Young
This week we caught up with Billy Young, publicist at 4AD…
UK Copyright Tribunal ruling recognises “increased value of music in cinema” says PRS
A dispute over what royalties cinemas should pay PRS for music contained in the films they screen went before the UK Copyright Tribunal earlier this year. It has ruled in favour of a higher royalty rate which, PRS says, “recognises the increased value of music in the overall cinema experience”…
🎧 Approved: Ex:Re
Elena Tonra’s solo project Ex:Re returns with ‘Sleep’ - demoed alone in a Paris hotel room, acoustic guitar run through a vocoder, late-night and muffled. Second album ‘Save As’ is out 30 Oct. The in-store shows are already sold out…
Sara Landry’s legal battle with ex-managers over commissions, copyrights and trademarks now being fought out in US and UK
In August, London-based management firm The Night Department sued techno producer Sara Landry for breach of contract. She has now responded and countersued. The core dispute is over the management company’s involvement in her label, though there’s also some griping over a Coachella pissing incident…
Denmark’s new digital replica law should go into effect in early 2027, says Danish culture minister
Danish copyright law could provide new protections around voice and likeness in the context of AI-generated digital replicas by the start of next year. Building on previous proposals, culture minister Zenia Stampe presented proposed legislation to the Danish parliament yesterday…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Tooth, untitled (halo), Basht, Slayyyter + strongboi…
Major publishers tell US Supreme Court they must intervene in termination rights ruling that “threatens the licensing of copyrighted works throughout the world”
The major music publishers and BMG have submitted a new filing with the US Supreme Court in the ongoing termination rights legal battle involving songwriter Cyril Vetter. He recently told the Supreme Court to ignore the publishers’ doomsaying about this case - their new filing has plenty of that…
🎧 Approved: Sylvie
LA-based Ben Schwab started Sylvie after finding a box of his father’s 1970s band tapes. Country folk-rock with a soft-focus amber glow, new single ‘Not Looking Back Anymore’ glows with early Bonnie Raitt tenderness. A debut album is out 6 Nov…
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