🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Ailsa Harper
This week, we caught up with Ailsa Harper; founder of Brightest Light, mentor for Help Musicians UK and Tinderbox Music and co-founder of Not The DJ’s Girlfriend…
Live Nation’s Wireless festival cancelled after British government withdraws Kanye West’s permission to travel to the UK
Live Nation has cancelled its Wireless festival after the government withdrew headliner Kanye West’s travel permit. Before the cancellation, with sponsors bailing, the company responded to the backlash over West headlining the event, with Melvin Benn putting out a statement defending the booking…
Bill Ackman wants to buy Universal Music and put “psychopath” Epstein associate Michael Ovitz in charge
Controversial hedge fund manager Bill Ackman wants to buy Universal Music. His plan: load UMG with debt, sell its Spotify stake, and put a man named in the Epstein files in as chair. Lucian Grainge could make tens of millions from the deal, but Universal’s superstar artists might have other ideas…
🎧 Approved: Alewya
Raised in West London with Ethiopian and Egyptian roots, alt-soul hyphenate Alewya treats heritage as something active rather than archival. She doesn’t move like a conventional artist, describing herself as a painter who makes music, which makes sense when you sit with her songs…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Alewya, Pigeon, Robyn, Lambrini Girls + Getdown Services…
Music industry trade bodies join forces with music publishers to defeat Anthropic’s “AI is fair use” defence
The music publishers suing Anthropic recently asked the judge to reject the AI company’s fair use defence. Now eight music industry organisations have filed an amicus brief also arguing that AI training can never be fair use, because the development of AI music models causes market dilution…
Universal CEO Lucian Grainge makes 764 times more than his employees - and female staff get 48% less than male counterparts
Universal Music published its annual report earlier this week. Buried in the 295 page document are a number of startling revelations about the “most successful music company in the world” - the most shocking being that women working for Universal make just half what their male counterparts are paid…
Judges keep overriding artist safeguards say Salt N Pepa in latest termination rights filing
Salt N Pepa have filed an appeal in their termination rights dispute with Universal. Not only was the judge wrong to dismiss their lawsuit seeking to reclaim ownership of 1980s recordings, but - they say - her decision continues a trend of judges overriding artist safeguards put in place by Congress…
Kanye West’s three night Wireless booking criticised by antisemitism campaigners
Kanye West headlining this year’s Wireless festival is proving controversial. Antisemitism campaigners have criticised the rapid rehabilitation of the rapper, noting that - while West apologised for past antisemitic statements in January - his “cycle of apology and relapse has become a routine”…
🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Victoria Parkey
This week, we caught up with freelance creative & cultural strategist Victoria Parkey.…
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