🌅 Horizon Leaders - Dominic Athanassiou
This week we caught up with Dominic Athanassiou, founder of PR agency 3nation…
Bidders in £1.6 million Oasis tapes auction may be disappointed
The son of a former Oasis sound engineer is auctioning off tapes containing recordings of the band’s 1990s gigs, soundchecks and rehearsals. The auctioneer says Oasis themselves are “concerned” about the auction, though the buyer of the tapes probably won’t be able to do much with the audio on them…
🎧 Approved: Paerish
Parisian four-piece Paerish make shoegazy, melodic alt-emo with a deep obsession with film and pop culture. New single ‘Vapor Cloud’ is riff-heavy and comes with a nocturnal, anime-inspired drift video. Album ‘Rita’, produced by Will Yip, is out 16 Oct…
No “tangible progress” on Brexit touring barriers, say “alarmed” MPs
Earlier this year the UK Parliament’s culture committee published a report on issues British artists face touring Europe post-Brexit. The government has now responded, insisting it wants “tangible progress” to be made on addressing these issues, but with no real tangible progress to report on…
AEG tells judge Live Nation must sell Ticketmaster to “restore competition” in the live music market
The deadline to formally comment on Live Nation’s antitrust deal with the US Department Of Justice is today. Main rival AEG says the deal is no good and Live Nation should be forced to sell Ticketmaster. Elsewhere in ticketing news this week, touting developments in the US, Brazil and South Korea…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Willie J Healey, Ceebo & Blanco, RIO KOSTA, DIIV, Shay Lia + KAYTRANADA…
Donald Trump’s DoJ says OpenAI should be able to do whatever it wants with copyright protected works
The US Department Of Justice has intervened in a legal battle between the New York Times and OpenAI, arguing that AI training is ‘fair use’ under American copyright law. Whether or not AI training is fair use is at the centre of dozens of AI lawsuits, including those filed by the music industry…
🎧 Approved: Girl Ultra
Mexico City’s Girl Ultra makes chrome-plated synth-funk with an 80s new-wave edge, co-produced with Chromeo. New single ‘Te Caigo’ is a manifesto for acting on desire rather than waiting around. The video involves a pink thong, a ballet fight and a Mexican lawyer…
Latest Suno lawsuit accuses AI company of violating the publicity rights of musicians rather than infringing their copyrights
Suno is facing another lawsuit from the music industry. But this time it’s not a copyright lawsuit. A group of musicians claim Suno has violated their US publicity rights by “encoding musicians’ identities into its AI model” and then “exploiting those identities by publicly using musicians’ names”…
The Sony and Warner music publishers finally get round to suing Anthropic
The Sony and Warner music publishing companies are the latest publishers to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement. They also name Anthropic founders Ben Mann and Dario Amodei as defendants, arguing they were personally involved in the illegal downloading of pirated sheet music and lyrics…
🎧 Approved: Venus Grrrls
Northern four-piece Venus Grrrls make goth-grunge with a Nineteenth Century literary obsession and have a slightly coven-like fanbase. New single ‘Mother Knows’ is written about the myth of Mary Shelley having sex on her mother’s grave…
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