Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow accused of sexual assault
Former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow has been sued by an unnamed woman who says that he drugged and sexually assaulted her in a New York hotel room in 2018…
Spotify brings audiobook listening to US Premium accounts
Spotify is bringing audiobook listening to premium accounts in the US. Lucky Americans. They join users in the UK and Australia, who had the fifteen hours of audiobook access dumped on them last month…
Approved: Clarissa Connelly
Experimental folk musician Clarissa Connelly returns with her first track for Warp Records, ‘Wee Rosebud’…
Sony Music has a new logo, Deezer and SiriusXM have a brandwank
Sony Music, Deezer and SiriusXM have all unveiled new logos. Sony’s delves into its brand heritage, Deezer’s aims to “recharge people's emotional connection to the brand”, and SiriusXM’s “gives a nod to the service’s consumer value proposition”…
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to star in Abba zombie movie
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is set to star in a new movie about an Abba tribute act caught up in the zombie apocalypse, co-written by his son Austin…
Hipgnosis Songs Fund headhunts the former Chair of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund to head up its board
The Hipgnosis Songs Fund has appointed former head of the Round Hill Music Royalty Fund, Robert Naylor, as its new Chair. This comes after investors declined to reappoint Andrew Sutch to that role following the recent continuation vote…
Travis Scott and Live Nation sued by Astroworld business partner
Travis Scott and Live Nation have been sued by the Sony-allied Ceremony Of Roses, which ran the amusements at the ill-fated 2021 Astroworld festival…
Campaign launches to support introduction of US radio royalties
The musicFIRST Coalition has launched a new Dionne Warwick-fronted campaign to garner support for the American Music Fairness Act, which would introduce a royalty for the use of sound recordings by AM and FM radio stations in the US for the first time…
Parliament's culture select committee to win Industry Champion prize at Artist & Manager Awards
The final winners for this year’s Artist & Manager Awards have been announced, and they include MPs on Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee, who will be named Industry Champions…
One Liners: Aurora, Marika Hackman, Julia Holter + more
Barbican appoints new Head Of Music; Sony A&R internships; new round of MEGS funding; new music from Aurora, Marika Hackman, Julia Holter, Fucked Up, Heartworms and Chemtrails…
TikTok to close Creator Fund
TikTok is closing the billion dollar Creator Fund it launched three years ago, stating that creators will instead be able to earn money from their content via the Creativity Program it began piloting earlier this year…
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