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with The Sun last week. Lydon was mainly there to talk about the new PiL album ‘End Of World’, but he got a little bit retrospective as well.“I’ve heard an awful lot of American journalists pretending that the whole punk influence came out of New York”, he mused.

DEALSSony Music labels Since 93 and RCA US have together signed Mette, with the deal formally announced alongside the release of new single ‘Van Gogh’. Says Glyn Aikins, co-President of Since 93 and RCA UK: “We are delighted to welcome Mette to the Since 93 family alongside RCA US.

CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is currently covering the Edinburgh Festival, the world’s biggest cultural event, which takes over the Scottish capital for three weeks with a packed programme of comedy, theatre, music, musicals, dance, cabaret, spoken word and a whole lot more.Here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some of the highlights of this year’s coverage, including interviews with people who are performing there this year. Today comedian Cerys Bradley, who returns to the Fringe with new show ‘Not Overthinking Things 2019′,“This year’s show is about a lot of things!” Bradley explains.

The 1977 Abba movie – you know, ‘Abba: The Movie’ – will be screened in cinemas on two dates next month “transporting audiences to the disco era when the Swedish icons first ruled the charts and hearts of millions”. Or so we were told in an official announcement earlier this week.Directed by Lasse Hallström, the film follows the band on an Australian tour with a mockumentary-style subplot thrown in for good measure.Organisers of next month’s screenings add that the remastered film boasts “electrifying renditions of Abba’s timeless hits, including chart-toppers such as ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘SOS’, ‘Name Of The Game’ and ‘Waterloo’”.The screenings will also feature some extra content, including lyric videos and some insights into the making of the Abba Voyage shows in London.Says Mia Segolsson of Polar Music International: “I am THRILLED that we are finally able to showcase the iconic ‘Abba: The Movie’ again across the globe, almost 50 years since its opening.

Angry at that deal, she pledged to put out new recordings of each of her previous albums as soon as the re-record restrictions in her old record contact lapsed. And she made good on that pledge in 2021, even after Braun sold on her Big Machine catalogue, possibly in part because the pandemic meant she had more time on her hands.Each re-recorded album also includes some extra songs ‘from the vaults’, with ‘Taylor’s Version’ of ‘1989’ set to have five extras in addition to the original tracklisting.Swift confirmed the October release date during a show on her ‘The Eras Tour’ last night.

Mykki Blanco has announced that their new six track EP ‘Postcards From Italia’ will be released on 22 Sep via Transgressive. And a first single from it, ‘Holidays In The Sun’, is now streaming.The EP explores – we are told – “a side of Mykki’s sound that hasn’t been delved into before – their ‘Italian cowboy era'”.On the new single, Blanco says: “The song is a feel good summer anthem about lazy summer days swimming in the sea, hopping from one music festival to the next, feeling good about life and living la dolce vita soaking up the sun”.Not only that, but it is “a summer rave bop with nods to 90s euro dance and acid house stretching itself, hitting every corner of the world from the beaches of Ibiza and Naples to warehouses parties in London and Berlin.

CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is currently covering the Edinburgh Festival, the world’s biggest cultural event, which takes over the Scottish capital for three weeks with a packed programme of comedy, theatre, music, musicals, dance, cabaret, spoken word and a whole lot more.Here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some of the highlights of this year’s coverage, including interviews with people who are performing there this year. Today, comedian David Ian talking about his show ‘(Just A) Perfect Gay’.“I’ve always wondered if I’m the perfect gay or the worst gay”, he says.

criticised the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws from the stage have formally threatened to sue the band over the incident.Future Sound Asia, promoter of the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur, has confirmed it has now sent a letter to The 1975 demanding that they acknowledge liability and compensate the live music company for the cancellation that occurred following their set on the first day of the event. If they refuse to do so, FSA says it will pursue legal action through the English courts.Addressing Malaysia’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws during his set at the festival, Healy told his audience: “I made a mistake.

filed a lawsuit with the courts in California last week accusing Lizzo and her dance team captain Shirlene Quigley of inappropriate and unfair conduct. That included making false allegations of unprofessional behaviour against the dancers and then forcing them to go through a “brutal” twelve hour re-auditioning process.In a post on social media, Lizzo hit back at the allegations, which she said were “sensationalised stories … coming from former employees who have already publicly admitted that they were told their behaviour on tour was inappropriate and unprofessional”.In a new interview with Sky News, Williams and Rodriguez commented on Lizzo’s response.

Pink News explains, sees the characters of Darcy and Tara “say, for the first time, that they love each other, after the former bared all about her turbulent relationship with her mother.

The VOCES8 Foundation presents its latest Live From London digital festival this weekend which, among other things, will include the premiere performance of a new piece composed by Ed Newton-Rex that features lyrics generated by artificial intelligence.Composer and entrepreneur Newton-Rex has been involved in generative AI in the music space for more than a decade, having founded the music AI start-up Jukedeck that was subsequently acquired by TikTok owner Bytedance. He is now VP of Audio at Stability AI.For his new composition – called ‘I Stand In The Library’ – he used OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate a set of lyrics which he then set to music.

CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is currently covering the Edinburgh Festival, the world’s biggest cultural event, which takes over the Scottish capital for three weeks with a packed programme of comedy, theatre, music, musicals, dance, cabaret, spoken word and a whole lot more.Here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some of the highlights of this year’s coverage, including interviews with people who are performing there this year. Today, sketch comedy duo Crizards who are performing ‘This Means War’, having won acclaim at last year’s Fringe with the show ‘Cowboys’.“After ‘Cowboys’ we were trying to think of other worlds that suit a story about male friendship and war seemed like a good option”, they say.

A Houston-based news organisation has revealed that a deal between Travis Scott and Apple regarding the livestreaming of his 2021 Astroworld performance required the rapper to complete his set in order to receive a $4.5 million fee. That has led to some discussion about whether or not that agreement put pressure on the rapper’s team to keep his Astroworld set going despite the crowd surge that occurred in the audience which resulted in ten fatalities.The recent publication of the Houston Police Department’s report into the Astroworld tragedy has put a new focus on the big question as to why Scott’s set continued for some time after the scale of the problems within the crowd had become apparent to emergency services.

According to the Daily Mirror, Watkins is now seriously ill in hospital after an incident at HMP Wakefield.The newspaper cites a source as saying: “He was found by officers after being held hostage and battered on Saturday morning. He’s in a life-threatening condition and there are fears he could die.

CMU’s sister media ThreeWeeks is currently covering the Edinburgh Festival, the world’s biggest cultural event, which takes over the Scottish capital for three weeks with a packed programme of comedy, theatre, music, musicals, dance, cabaret, spoken word and a whole lot more.Here in the CMU Daily we’ll pick out some of the highlights of this year’s coverage, including interviews with people who are performing there this year. Today, comedian Gabby Killick, who returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with her fourth solo show ‘Conversations With My Agent’.“This show is about my dark, twisted and hilarious relationship with showbusiness”, she says.

a short video posted to Instagram yesterday. “Great at lunchtime, great at dinner time, great at breakfast time, great in the Great British summertime”.The latter claim is a slightly tongue in cheek nod to the fact it’s pouring down with rain behind him as he records the promo.

Jason Derulo has been sued by a former collaborator who claims he co-wrote the 2020 hit ‘Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)’ but was never credited for his work, and was cut out of the action when it comes to the copyright in the song and subsequent royalties.In a lawsuit filed with the courts in California, producer/songwriter Matthew Spatola claims that: “On 23 Apr 2020, Derulo and Spatola collaborated to create the instrumental composition and recording of what would later become ‘Savage Love’ in Derulo’s Los Angeles home studio. Derulo and Spatola went back to the studio again on 27 Apr 2020 whereon they completed ‘Savage Love'”.Following that collaboration, the lawsuit then alleges, “Derulo unilaterally released ‘Savage Love’, without providing any credit whatsoever to Spatola for the work they jointly created together.

announced in October last year that it was terminating its long-running and very profitable alliance with West after his increasingly controversial racist and anti-Semitic statements made the partnership untenable.The sudden axing of the deal around West’s Yeezy fashion brand cut off a lucrative revenue stream for Adidas, and left the company with an awful lot of unsold stock.In May this year it announced it would start selling some of the Yeezy products sitting in its warehouses via its website and app.Keen to counter any criticism of it profiting from it’s former alliance with the still pretty controversial West, the sportswear firm said that it would donate some of the proceeds from the sale of the products to charities, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute For Social Change.At the time Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said: “After careful consideration, we have decided to begin releasing some of the remaining Adidas Yeezy products. Selling and donating was the preferred option among all the organisations and stakeholders we spoke to”.Confirming the those sales had gone well in an update to investors, Gulden confirmed the company will “continue to carefully sell off more of the existing Yeezy inventory”, insisting that that approach is “much better than destroying and writing off the inventory”.A second round of Yeezy product sales is already underway with retail partners involved this time as well as Adidas’s own digital channels.The continued demand for the Yeezy trainers will help the company mitigate the commercial impact of terminating its partnership with West.

there were no grounds for pursuing criminal proceedings against Scott or a number of other people involved in planning and producing the festival.In terms of the lawsuits, last October a lawyer working for the family of one of the victims who died, Axel Acosta, confirmed that his client had settled their lawsuit. It was also reported at the time, and subsequently confirmed via court records, that the family of another festival-goer who died, sixteen year old Brianna Rodriguez, had likewise settled.Rolling Stone reported yesterday that the family of John Hilgert have also settled their legal action.

filed a lawsuit with the courts in California earlier this week targeting Lizzo – real name Melissa Jefferson – and her dance team captain Shirlene Quigley, as well as the Big Grrrl Big Touring company.Quigley is accused of constantly pushing her Christian beliefs in the workplace and criticising those who had premarital sex, but at the same time simulating oral sex, sharing lewd sexual fantasies and discussing one performer’s virginity.Jefferson, meanwhile, is accused of acting inappropriately at social events that her employees were strongly encouraged to attend. That included clubs where “nudity and sexuality were a focal point”.

threw a microphone at an audience member during a gig at Drai’s Beachclub in Vegas on Saturday. Though it was a retaliatory move prompted by said audience member throwing a drink at the rapper as she performed on stage.Although video footage of the incident seemed to show the audience member apologising as they were escorted out of the venue by security, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department subsequently confirmed that someone had filed a formal complaint after being “struck by an item that was thrown from the stage” at the show.It wasn’t clear if that complaint had been made by whoever threw the drink or whether someone else had been hit by the mic that Cardi B tossed into the audience.But either way, a statement from the LVMPD said: “On 30 Jul 2023, an individual came into an LVMPD police station to report a battery.

Aho Ssan – aka composer Niamké Désiré – is set to release his second solo album ‘Rhizomes’ this autumn. Commissioned by Nicolás Jaar’s Other People label, Austria’s Donaufestival and Paris recording studio INA GRM, the record features a whole host of guests, including Clipping, Mondkopf and Jaar himself.The album draws inspiration and takes its name from the philosophical theory of an endlessly-evolving structure with no beginning or end, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri.

APPOINTMENTSKobalt has promoted Kenny McGoff to UK Head Of Creative. He was previously Head Of A&R in the UK. “Kenny’s dynamic spirit and passion for music is infectious”, says Kobalt COO Jeannette Perez.

Cher has sold a “range of music assets” to the Iconic Artists Group, the company co-founded by veteran artist manager Irving Azoff.Needless to say, Cher is “THRILLED”. Though technically about her long-standing friendship with Azoff.

RELEASESJames Blunt will release new album ‘Who We Used To Be’ on 27 Oct. Out now is new single ‘Beside You’. “It’s a bit of a celebration”, he says of the song.

it was announced that the S Club tour would still go ahead, but that – following the change in circumstances – Spearritt had opted not to take part. Those shows are now due to take place this autumn and the five remaining members of the group released a new track last week.However, with that new track released, The Sun then reported that Spearritt never formally opted out of the reunion tour and was “blindsided” when her former bandmates made the announcement that they would be doing the shows without her.Talks then reportedly followed to try to get Spearritt on board for the shows after all but – says one of those pesky sources – by that point “bad blood” between her and the rest of the group made the chances of that happening rather slim.Says the source to The Sun: “Hannah is devastated.

Believe and its TuneCore subsidiary have surveyed nearly 1600 self-releasing artists about generative AI. Half of those surveyed said that they had a positive perception of artificial intelligence and would be willing to offer their music for the training of AI models.Around a third said they were interested in using AI as part of their music-making process, with a similar amount reckoning AI technologies could help them with their marketing and promotion.Commenting on the study, TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson says: “As AI continues to be a conversation topic across creative industries, we sought to engage directly with independent artists to determine their awareness of AI and how they’re most interested in engaging with it”.“TuneCore’s main priorities lie in the interests of our artists”, she adds, “so the responses to this survey will help us enable them to utilise AI on our platform with consent, control, transparency, and fair monetary compensation”.Of those surveyed, 35% said that they are interested in using AI in their creative process, while 31% said it could help with marketing and promotion around releases.Meanwhile, 18% said they might use AI technologies to create promotional content – including videos to post to TikTok and Instagram – while 16% said they were interested in how AI could help them more generally engage and develop their fanbases.In terms of allowing tech companies to use their creative output in order to train generative AI models, 50% showed a willingness to allow that to happen.

The US district court for the Central District Of California last week published a judgement that provided a pretty extensive overview of what was a big legal debate in the US music industry for a time: whether online radio services like Pandora and Sirius were obliged to pay royalties when they played pre-1972 recordings.A lot of that debate centred on lawsuits pursued by the artists Flo & Eddie, who were members of the 1960s band The Turtles.In theory, the 2018 Music Modernization Act removed the ambiguities that those lawsuits sought to address. However, some technicalities remained in relation to Flo & Eddie’s litigation, meaning the lawsuit against Sirius rumbled on until 2021, and the Pandora dispute until last week.

A police report has been filed by an audience member after an altercation occurred during a Cardi B show in Las Vegas this weekend.During a performance at Drai’s Beachclub on Saturday, an audience member threw a drink at the rapper. She then quickly retaliated by throwing her microphone at said audience member.Video footage of the event seems to show the person who threw the drink subsequently apologising before being escorted out of the venue by security.

APPOINTMENTSDeezer has appointed Florence Lao as its General Counsel. “Deezer is leading the way for the future of the music industry and I’m looking forward to contributing to continued success, together with the talented teams in France and across the globe”, she says. “The music landscape is changing quickly, with Deezer playing a key role for its partners, the industry, and fans alike.

Fast-rising punk band Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers have released the latest single from their upcoming debut album ‘I Love You’ – its opening track ‘I Used To Be Fun’. Despite its title, the track finds the band at their most fun, its jaunty pace belying the lyrical claims of the song.“‘I Used To Be Fun’ is about getting older and redefining the way you have fun”, say the band.

Travis Scott and his legal team have been dubbed “stunningly tone deaf” for criticising the timing of the publication of a police report about the Astroworld tragedy. The Houston Police Department made that lengthy document available on Friday, just as Scott released his new album ‘Utopia’, his first since the fatal crowd surge that occurred during his headline set at the 2021 edition of the festival he founded.On Friday, a representative for Scott told TMZ: “The timing of the Houston Police Department report’s release, coinciding with the launch of Travis Scott’s highly anticipated album, is anything but coincidental … it is outrageous that HPD has chosen to resort to tactics that attempt to discredit Travis and his team, casting doubt on how the unfortunate events at Astroworld actually transpired while deflecting blame from their own critical failures”.Responding to those remarks, a lawyer working for the family of one of those who died during the crowd surge, ten year old Ezra Blount, said in his own statement to TMZ: “For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many”.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured during the crowd surge at Astroworld 2021, which took place in Houston’s NRG Park.

If you’re yet to try Ed Sheeran’s Tingly Ted’s hot sauce, then this could be your month. The pop star has announced a partnership with the Honest Burgers restaurant chain to flavour up its hot beef.Yes, having launched his own sauce brand in February – and a TV ad campaign in June – Sheeran now has a restaurant partner to help push his condiments.Throughout August, anyone who walks in the doors of one of Honest Burgers’ 42 UK restaurants (or orders takeaway via Uber Eats) will be able to grab a special burger which, says a press release, will be “drenched” in Ed’s special sauce.

So this ‘Barbie’ film then, that’s a thing isn’t it? I ran some checks over the weekend and can definitely confirm, a thing it is. There’s a soundtrack too, of course, and that had quite an impact on the UK singles chart on Friday.In the week following the release of the film and ‘Barbie: The Album’, six tracks from the record were sufficiently streamed to appear in the UK Top 40, three of them in the top five.Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For’ is at number three, Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance The Night’ is at four, and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s ‘Barbie World’, complete with a little bit of Aqua, is at number five.That’s Aqua’s first appearance in the top five in 25 years, the Official Charts Company told us on Friday.

first launched by the rapper in 2018.

announced he was buying Parler, a rival social media platform known for being more tolerant of controversial right-wing opinions.That deal ultimately fell through, meanwhile Elon Musk bought himself Twitter and quickly relaxed its rules around offensive content. West was then allowed to tweet again.