Katie Melua has announced that she will release her ninth studio album, ‘Love & Money’, this spring.Out now is new single ‘Golden Record’, of which she says: “It’s about the scene changing and being a woman in the music industry and how strange and lucky I feel to have a job I’m addicted to”.“This approach for nearly 20 years led me to being very dogmatic and leaving very little space for my life at home”, she goes on. “Before I knew it, the years had flown and I was 36, newly divorced, still pedalling like mad with music, while around me, friends were all married, making babies”.“And while the draw of making records and getting up on stage still did everything I thought I needed for my soul”, she explains, “I knew not having a stable relationship at home and starting a family was gradually gnawing away at me”.“Writing ‘Golden Record’”, she concludes, “it was like I was finally making peace with it all, accepting how things have changed in the industry, being happy with my lot at home and ready to face the fear of letting go of the forever funfair of the music industry”.‘Love & Money’ will be out on 23 Mar and you can watch the video for ‘Golden Record’ here:Melua will also be touring the UK in May.
Morrissey’s festive updates: no label, no management, no Miley
27.12.2022 - 19:45 / completemusicupdate.com
As the Christmas break got underway, Morrissey posted some updates to his website confirming that he is starting the new year without management or a label in place, and with one less collaborator.At the end of October, it was announced that Morrissey had signed up with Universal Music’s Capitol label in the US for the release of his next album ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’. Although, the official announcement of that tie-up was keen to stress, the deal excluded the UK where the often controversial musician is generally considered too controversial these days.At the time we wondered whether this alliance with a Universal label would end up going the same way as the last one.
Morrissey worked with the major’s Harvest imprint on his 2014 album ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Business’, but artist and label fell out shortly after that record was released.This time round, however, things have gone very differently. In that artist and label have seemingly fallen out before the record has even been made available.We got a hint of that last month when Morrissey confirmed that the planned February release of ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’ was now on hold and the record’s fate was “exclusively in the hands of Capitol Records (Los Angeles)”.
Then earlier this month he started talking about his work on ‘Without Music The World Dies’, the follow-up album to the as yet unreleased ‘Bonfire Of Teenagers’.In a quick pre-Christmas update, Morrissey properly confirmed that the alliance with Universal Music is off. “Morrissey has voluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records (Los Angeles)”, the short statement announced.Though if you were thinking of calling Morrissey’s management team to find out who might release either ‘Bonfire Of
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One Liners: Keith Urban, Morrissey, Rancid, more
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