One Liners - quickfire news from the music business

Universal deals; Dice appointment; RSD date; join The Smashing Pumpkins; new music from John Squire and Liam Gallagher, Green Day, Bring Me The Horizon, Cast, Mykki Blanco, Bob Dylan, Mall Girl, The Miserable Rich, Yoasobi, and LuLa; RATM retire; prizes for Ed Sheeran and The Last Dinner Party…

LyricFind acquires Rotor Video; BMG increases stake in Nena catalogue; Sounds.Studio partners with Triniti; Shygirl releases new single; Daniel Johnston’s 80s and 90s albums remastered…

Bucks Music signs Wonky Logic; Olly Alexander and Lorde tease new music; Porno For Pyros and Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul release Christmas songs; Jehst tour dates; submissions open for Sound Of The Year Awards…

New MVT board members; EMMA expands YouTube Music Partnership; Croydon music business event NXTGEN announced; Gomez’s Tom Gray beats Eddie Izzard to stand as Labour candidate in Brighton…

BEAT Music Fund, Omnivore Music, Mick Jones, Josh Ramsey and Nooks Recordings deals; Eddy Temple-Morris moves to drivetime on Virgin Radio Anthems; new music from Killer Mike, The Veronicas, AJ Mitchell, Awich, TR/ST and Club 8…

Will Jennings and TunedGlobal deals; Ming Lu joins UMG Greater China; agent Peter Elliott to retire; YolanDa Brown to stand down from Youth Music role; AI version of sound engineer Wez Clarke launched; Ghetts donates video budget to athletics club; new Toddla T and Big Zuu track; MOBO nominations…

Death Row, Warner Chappell and Secretly Distribution deals; Scottish Music Industry Association appointments; new music from Fat White Family and Still Corners; live dates from ZZ Top and Alvvays…

Reservoir signs Vulfpeck’s Theo Katzman; PPL supports BRIT School; Death Row Records, Oak View Group, NITO appointments; DistroKid Android app; Amy Winehouse biopic release date; new music from Twin Atlantic; tour dates from Nicki Minaj and Five Finger Death Punch…

Ariana Grande’s new management deal; Warner Chappell signs Inigo Quintero; new music from Pharrell Williams; Slipknot 25th anniversary tour; Latitude headliners…

Next Era partners with Downtown; TuneCore, 10K Projects, Music Support and One Fiinix Live appointments; new music from Griff and Isabella Lovestory; live dates from Laufey and Bigo & Twigetti…

Danny L Harle, Sub Pop Publishing and grentperez deals; AWAL and FKP Scorpio appointments; new music from The Libertines, Nnamdi and HighSchool; Ethel Cain announces London show…