🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Beth Cherry
This week, we caught up with Beth Cherry; a music consultant specialising in streaming strategy, partnerships and digital data…
Kanye’s world tour loses another date as French show gets postponed
Kanye West has voluntarily postponed a planned show in Marseille. There were reports that French ministers were planning on following the lead of the UK government, which withdrew permission for West to perform in the country after he was announced as headliner of this year’s Wireless Festival…
BTS lawyers go after album leaker and knock-off merch sellers
Before BTS’s new album was released last month, it was leaked on X. That ruined the K-pop group’s expert planning for their big comeback and, as a result, their lawyers want to sue the leaker in South Korea. But first they need a US judge to force X to reveal the leaker’s identity…
🎧 Approved: Widowspeak
NYC duo Widowspeak deal in a kind of effortless Americana alchemy, dream pop, a little Stones, a little Petty, open and languid ballads with the twang of a Lynchian roadhouse band. New single ‘No Driver’ is a lush, widescreen pop gem, unhurried and wide-open…
Danish grassroots collective Spoiler Room forced to rebrand after Boiler Room trademark claim
A Copenhagen collective that allows artists to share works in progress has called itself Spoiler Room ever since it launched in 2022, but is now changing its name after receiving a cease and desist letter from the lawyers at dance music streamer Boiler Room, which was bought by Superstruct last year…
Eddie Dalton’s (actually quite modest) chart success sparks further debate about where AI music fits in
An AI-generated artist called Eddie Dalton got a lot of press coverage this weekend after reaching number two in the UK charts. Though it was the sales chart that excludes streaming data, which isn’t so impressive. But it still prompted more debate in the music community about where AI music fits in…
Record industry welcomes latest Brazilian ruling against stream manipulation platform
The courts in Brazil have ruled against another company that provides stream manipulation services, this time Boom de Seguidores. Welcoming the ruling, IFPI says the Brazilian courts have been “consistent” in concluding that “services that enable streaming fraud mislead consumers and are unlawful”…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Kelela, Big Softy, Newdad, Laufey + IZCO…
Grass needs more time to grow says AEG as it puts a pin in LIDO Festival
AEG’s UK CEO and turf-whisperer in chief has said that East London’s LIDO Festival needs to move to a different date because the grass in Victoria Park isn’t ready for stampeding hordes of festival-goers. Or something along those lines. As a result, it will now take place over one day in August…
Bruce Springsteen wants police to seize any knock-off t-shirts being sold at upcoming home state show
Bruce Springsteen is following Dua Lipa and Benson Boone in seeking a crackdown on the sale of bootleg merch at his US shows. He has asked the courts in New Jersey to instruct local law enforcement to “seize and impound” any knock-off Springsteen t-shirts being sold around an upcoming Newark concert…
Salt N Pepa termination rights ruling makes creator protections in US “illusory”, say artist advocacy groups
Salt N Pepa’s legal battle with Universal Music is set to become another crucial test case around the creator’s termination right in US copyright law. Entertainment lawyers and creator groups have now urged appeal judges to overturn a judgement in Universal’s favour to allow more scrutiny in court…
🎧 Approved: Modern Woman
There's Kate Bush in the DNA, avant-garde tendencies, folk tradition, but Modern Woman have gone and folded post-punk into the whole thing, which works beautifully. New single ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’, is feverishly brilliant…
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