In the decades since it became a leading merch company for indie bands from Pavement and Sonic Youth up through the White Stripes and Vampire Weekend, Tannis Root and its co-owner, Bill Mooney, have seen a lot — but nothing quite like this summer. Their team had just loaded boxes …
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BERLIN — For three nights this week, the Arena Berlin, a concert venue in the German capital’s Treptow district, has been coming to life with strobing spotlights, thumping bass beats, and hundreds of boisterous Berliners. These are the first gatherings of their kind in the city since a year and …
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Roblox and big-three music company Sony Music Entertainment announced a new partnership Tuesday that will funnel more of Sony’s extensive roster of superstars into the video game. The companies didn’t reveal any financial details of the deal but highlighted new opportunities available for artists to make money and reach fans. …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. What’s next in America after K-pop and reggaeton? Data has shown that U.S. listener taste is going more global with each …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. Courtney Phillips’ job is to put people to sleep — quite literally. As the music head of wellness app Calm, she …
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Video game developer Rockstar Games and Ibiza club culture icon CircoLoco announced Monday the launch of new independent record label CircoLoco Records. CircoLoco Records will release its first project, the compilation albumMonday Dreamin’,in July, and will tease the album with individual weekly EP drops starting June 4th. The project will …
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On Friday morning, Apple Music revealed a long-coveted detail to the music business: Its average per-play rate is one cent per stream. The music-streaming company made the announcement in a memo it sent to artists, labels, and other music rights-holders as part of a new series of newsletters.“As the discussion …
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Music streams only offer monetary value for artists when the royalty checks are cashed — often weeks late. Create Music Group (CMG) wants to change this. On Tuesday, the fast growing music distributor, publisher and marketer announced a beta program for Create Carbon, a credit card directly tied to its …
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As a teenager, Leah Kate used to spend time each week trying to get the music industry to notice her. She would Google the names of her favorite artists’ producers, track down their emails, and send them Voice Notes; she’d email music publishers — “literally blast them with shit” — …
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Online music marketplace Bandcamp announced Tuesday that its pandemic-inspired Bandcamp Fridays initiative — in which it waives its full revenue share on its sales to help artists better fend through Covid — will continue in 2021. Starting in March, when the pandemic cut off touring and removed artists’ most reliable …
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