🌅 Horizon Future Leaders - Liv Judd
This week, we caught up with Liv Judd, Audience Development Intern at Partisan Records.…
Kid Rock tells lawmakers “resale price caps work”, so US should follow European lead on ticket touting
Kid Rock yesterday testified in the US Senate at a session on ticketing, calling on American lawmakers to introduce a price-cap restricting how much touts can mark up the prices of tickets they sell. He told senators that such price-caps already exist in parts of Europe and they “seem to be working”…
Music publishers file new Anthropic lawsuit, adding in piracy claims and $3 billion mega-damages
Last year a US court declined to allow music publishers that are suing AI company Anthropic to add extra piracy claims to their lawsuit. Knowing those claims strengthen their case, given recent legal precedent, the publishers have now filed a brand new lawsuit, that also seeks $3 billion in damages…
🎧 Approved: Namasenda
Swedish pop visionary Namasenda is in her own Eurobeat-tinged, angelic pop world. New single ‘Cola’ is a glossy, digi-soaked rush of avant-pop, pairing accelerated guitar arpeggios with elastic rhythms and a tectonic low end for a sleek, hypnotic, all-around bop…
Yet more K-pop legal drama as Ador founder hits back at contract tampering claims, and agency sues one of NewJeans
After trying to quit HYBE’s Ador label, K-pop group NewJeans last year agreed to carry on working with the company. But then the label announced it was axing and suing one member, while also accusing Ador founder Min Hee-jin of contract tampering, something she denied at a press conference today…
TikTok insists it’s not suppressing anti-Trump content now its US business is run by Trump allies
There has been more speculation that TikTok is suppressing anti-Trump content, now that TikTok USA is controlled by Trump allies. California governor Gavin Newsom is even investigating. But TikTok says any problems publishing videos in recent days are the result of a power outage at a data centre…
Anti-Defamation League says Kanye’s apology doesn’t “undo long history of antisemitism”
Yesterday Kanye West took out an advert in the Wall Street Journal to share a lengthy apology for all his antisemitic statements and content in recent years. The ADL says the apology is long overdue, adding “the truest apology would be for him to not engage in antisemitic behaviour in the future”…
Meta dropped songs from Reels library to bully Wixen into accepting lower royalty rates, says lawsuit
Wixen has accused Meta of employing “unscrupulous” tactics to pressure the publisher into accepting much lower royalty rates. It claims Meta removed Wixen songs from its Reels library and lied to the artists behind those tracks in a bid to put pressure on the publisher during licensing negotiations…
🎧 Approved: GUV
GUV grew up moving between Toronto and England and carries a very real strain of UK lineage that separates him from other hardcore kids sporting bowl cuts. New single ‘Blue Jade’ leans hard into punchy shoegaze, smearing hummable melodies beneath a thick gloss of distortion and texture…
CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Arctic Monkeys, James Blake, Charlotte Plank, Joji + Pollyfromthedirt…
American TikTok users link technical issues to last week’s change in ownership
There were technical issues on TikTok in the US this weekend following the change in ownership at TikTok USA last week. There has been much speculation that the issues and change in ownership were connected, adding to concerns about what having Trump allies in charge of TikTok in the US might mean…
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