🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Helena Coma
This week we spoke with Helena Coma, Membership & Communications Coordinator at the Featured Artists Coalition, and independent band manager and promoter.…
As FT says major labels are close to “landmark” AI licensing deals, is a new battle royale going to kick off within the music industry?
An FT report says that Universal and Warner are close to agreeing “landmark” AI licensing deals that will result in ongoing payments to the music industry. If true, that poses some big questions within the music community about how that income will be shared and whose consent will be sought…
🎧 Approved: Glom
There’s no gloom in Glom, instead we get shimmering riffs, 90s-leaning alt-rock choruses and shoegaze haze, with the tight rhythms of late 80s post-punk. With ‘Mirror’ he’s written one of his most frank songs, yet it remains unashamedly melodic and uplifting…
Nirvana baby lawsuit dismissed
The Nirvana baby lawsuit has been dismissed. Spencer Elden, who as a baby appeared on the cover of ‘Nevermind’, sued the band in 2021 claiming that the artwork constituted illegal sexual imagery. But the judge says he “has a difficult time understanding” that interpretation of the image…
Aussie festival strip search lawsuit could cost NSW government $150 million
An Australian court yesterday awarded a woman $93,000 in damages after she was illegally strip searched by police at a music festival in 2018. 3000 people are involved in a class action over allegedly unlawful strip searches, which could result in liabilities of $150 million for the NSW government…
No one seems to know if Kneecap are still banned from Canada - or whether they were ever actually banned at all
When Canadian MP Vince Gasparro announced Kneecap were banned from Canada last month he noted the criminal case against Mo Chara. With that case dismissed, it remains unclear if the ban is still in force, not least because it’s not clear in what capacity Gasparro announced the ban in the first place…
Paramore’s Hayley Williams says she “doesn’t know” why tracks are available in Israel after joining No Music For Genocide pledge
Last week Paramore joined No Music For Genocide, pledging to remove their music from streaming services in Israel. That seemed to happen, but then the music returned. The band’s Hayley Williams says she doesn’t know why, but she hopes label Atlantic will ensure the music is geo-blocked again…
Don’t say gruesome twosome: Ek steps sideways at Spotify to make way for not one but two new CEOs
Spotify is getting two new CEOs, with co-Presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström being promoted to co-CEO roles as founder Daniel Ek steps aside to become Executive Chairman. Ek says the change in job titles more or less reflects the roles the three men are already performing at the company…
🎧 Approved: Westerman
Westerman, the project of Will Westerman, lives somewhere between folk and chamber pop; saint-like but playful in its textures. New single ‘About Leaving’ from upcoming album ‘A Jackal’s Wedding’ leans into all of that with a soft power…
The MLC can submit amended lawsuit in battle over Spotify’s bundling tricks
Earlier this year a judge dismissed with prejudice The MLC’s lawsuit over Spotify’s sneaky bundling tricks. However, the collecting society has other issues with how Spotify is using those tricks to reduce what it pays songwriters, and as a result the judge has said it can file an amended lawsuit…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Florence + The Machine, Bricknasty and F3Miii, Magdalena Bay, Witch Fever + Geese…
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