Let’s start with: Correlation is not causation. (Listen to your imploring math teachers, kids; the ramifications of shoddy data science are no joke.) And yet, when the most popular band in the world releases a song primly named after a pantry staple, one has to wonder — by which I …
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Less than a month after announcing a $100 million fund to acquire catalogs from female music makers, Influence Media has made its first purchase. It has struck a deal with prominent songwriter Ali Tamposi for her publishing rights, the company tells Rolling Stone. Tamposi has co-written an extensive catalog of …
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As the live music industry’s return remains fairly nebulous amid the ongoing pandemic, Mint Talent Group — a booking agency started last year by former CAA, William Morris Endeavor, and Paradigm agents — is working with ticketing platform Lyte to set up a reservation system for a swath of its …
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Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, and Big Hit Entertainment, the Korean record label behind international superstars BTS, are partnering in a new label joint venture to develop a new boy group, the two companies announced in a pretaped livestream on Wednesday. The new venture, based in …
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As the live music industry enters its seven month of virtually zero revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic, a new coalition comprised of some of the biggest live music groups and corporations in the industry launched on Thursday. The #SaveLiveEventsNow coalition — made up of promotion giants Live Nation Entertainment …
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When you think of West Coast hip-hop, a few things may come to mind — with Cypress Hill and marijuana high on the list. In Covid quarantine, weed dispensaries were deemed essential businesses by every state with a regulated cannabis system; Cypress Hill, despite not having released any new music …
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This sweater song doesn’t come undone. Of all the tracks of Taylor Swift‘s surprise album Folklore, the one sitting at Number One on the Spotify US Top 50 is “Cardigan” — a song where Swift likens herself to, you guessed it, a cardigan. In a music video accompanying the critically …
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Months-old music livestreaming program Verzuz — a grassroots rap battle on social media that’s become one of the music industry’s most notable quarantine offerings — is partnering with Apple Music to bring upcoming episodes onto the platform, Apple Music announced on Monday. Starting with Wednesday’s upcoming face-off between Snoop Dogg …
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When country trio Lady Antebellum announced a name change in mid-June amid national conversations about racism, it was meant to be a gesture of goodwill. The band had been criticized for romanticizing the pre-war, slavery-ridden American South — so it chopped off the offending word and refashioned itself “Lady A.” …
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K-pop‘s world domination seems to get closer by the day. Just months after the folks at Big Hit Entertainment celebrated their star groupBTS‘ chart-topping success with album Map of the Soul: 7 —which became the South Korean icons’ fourth consecutive LP to go Number One in the U.S. — the …
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