⏩ Releases & Tours News Thursday 26 Sep
SOPHIE, The Cure, Two Shell, Paleface Swiss, Shakira, Oh Annie Oh, Blackout Problems, Lake Malice + more…
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EU AI Act can only provide a “temporary fix” to the “darker aspect” of AI’s “profound disruption” to creative industries says open letter
🎧 Approved: Humdrum
Chicago’s Humdrum, led by Loren Vanderbilt, blends indiepop and shoegaze with influences from IRS-era REM and New Order. Their latest single, ‘Eternal Blue’, captures this fusion with lush, reverb-soaked guitars and a cinematic, 80s movie montage-worthy quality.…
Mariah Carey says ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ song-theft case based on “an unprotectable jumble” of musical elements
Mariah Carey is trying to get a song-theft lawsuit filed against her over ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ dismissed. She argues that the only similarities between her hit and an earlier song of the same title are “commonplace words”, “Christmas tropes” and “unprotectable pitches and chords”…
⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Dates set for next Leadmill court hearing; Drew Hill elected chair of Official Charts Company, Pet Shop Boys to be honoured at Artist & Manager Awards
Today: Sheltered Music, Duolingo, ADA, The Core Records, The Valory Music Co, The Leadmill, Official Charts Company, Apple Music Classical, Hook, un:hurd music, Ministry Of Sound, Artist & Manager Awards, Nashville Songwriter Awards + more…
Yet another Diddy sexual assault lawsuit filed - bringing count to eleven
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs - currently in jail after being charged with sex trafficking and racketeering - has been sued for an eleventh time over allegations of sexual assault. In the latest lawsuit, he is accused of violently raping the girlfriend of one of his employees at his label’s studio in 2001…
⏩ Releases & Tours News Wednesday 25 Sep
JADE, Primal Scream, DARGZ, Barry Can't Swim, Linkin Park, Maxo Kream, Tyler The Creator, Seething Akira + more…
The Great Escape drops Faroe Islands as lead country partner following protests
The announcement last week that the Faroe Islands would be lead country partner at 2025’s Great Escape prompted criticism from the Sussex Dolphin Project because of the islands’ involvement in whaling. In response, TGE has decided to “withdraw the Faroe Islands as our lead country partner”…
HYBE label Ador reinstates Min Hee-jin as director but not CEO
NewJeans recently demanded that their label, HYBE subsidiary Ador, reappoint Min Hee-jin as CEO by today. Min was pushed out of that role last month after months of feuding with HYBE. Ador says it will reppoint Min as a director but not CEO. That seems unlikely to placate NewJeans, who could now sue…
⏩ One Liners - music business news in brief: Universal launches China Great Bay division, Beggars signs gaming deal, Fish56Octagon launches label, Kesha launches label, Black Lives In Music to hold ‘Classically Black’ symposium in London
Today: UMG China Greater Bay Area, Beggars Group, Reactionary Music, Fish56Octagon, Another Rhythm Records, LPME Records, Gamma, Prescription Songs, ADA, Range Music Publishing, UMPG, BBR, BMG, DCD2 Records, Kilimanjaro Live, AIF, Black Lives In Music,…
TikTok Music to close
TikTok Music will close down at the end of November. The standalone music service launched last year as an evolution of Resso, the earlier music platform operated by TikTok owner Bytedance. TikTok says it now wants to focus on its Add To Music App feature…
Quavo sued for song-theft over ‘Bubblegum’
The latest song-theft lawsuit filed with the US courts targets former Migos member Quavo. A rapper called L.Mont says that Quavo’s 2018 track ‘Bubblegum’ rips off a record of the same title that he released three years earlier. L.Mont gave Quavo a CD of his music in 2016…
⏩ Releases & Tours News Tuesday 24 Sep
DJ Koze, UNKLE, DJ Krush, Scar, Sundara Karma, Jack Savoretti, Massive Attack, IDLES, Nile Rodgers, High.…
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