Today, Spotify announced a new multi-year licensing deal with Merlin, the “global music rights agency” at the helm of independent music.Read the full story here.
ScoopApril 23, 2017
The MBW Review gives our take on some of the music biz’s biggest recent goings-on. This time, we drill down into exciting new stats from…
ScoopApril 2, 2017
The music business has become a big data business. With millions of songs streaming every day from countless internet and mobile platforms. The creators who…
ScoopMarch 27, 2017
CHUCK BERRY The Autobiography. By Chuck Berry. Illustrated. 346 pp. New York: Harmony Books. $17.95. WITHIN the mythology of rock-and-roll, one account of the music's…
ScoopMarch 23, 2017
Online radio goes analogue. London-based online radio station Soho Radio is installing a portable cutting lathe in its studio to cut a series of live…
ScoopMarch 23, 2017
Giuseppe Acito (Opificio Sonico) shared the latest music video from the Toa Mata Band, a cover of Kraftwerk’s The Robots. I was 11 when during a…
ScoopFebruary 26, 2017
Warner Music Group is now a proud member of the $1bn streaming club. The company announced today that its recorded music operation generated $311m from…
ScoopFebruary 26, 2017
The state of the current music startups scene was a big theme at the recent NY:LON Connect conference that Music Ally and the Music Business Association…
ScoopFebruary 26, 2017
Rockin’ you eternally. Songwriter, producer and vocalist Leon Ware has passed away aged 77, Okayplayer reports.Read the full story here.
ScoopFebruary 26, 2017