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Various Artists Management Inks Deal to Discover, Market Italian Artists
Venice, Italy. Photo Credit: canmandawe Milan-headquartered record label and distribution company Artist First has officially inked “a wide-ranging new agreement” with London- and LA-based Various Artists Management (VAM). 12-year-old Artist First and 13-year-old Various Artists Management just recently unveiled their pact, which will see the companies coordinate “to discover and develop Italian-based artists for the global market.” VAM counts as clients The Libertines, Sad Night Dynamite, and Supergrass, to name some, whereas Artist First “works with numerous successful Italian artists alongside a number of high-profile international acts,” according to the entities’ formal announcement message. Roster-wise, Artist First has deals with Gazzelle, Fulminacci, and Zero Assoluto, among others, and the company…
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Music Industry Moves: UTA Nashville Hires Six New Agents and Execs
UTA today announced six new additions to its Nashville headquarters. Emily LaRose, Marissa Smith, Elisa Vazzana join as music agents, Amy Lynch joins the Comedy Touring division as an agent, Brandi Brammer will serve as senior HR business partner, and Emily Wright joins as a music brand partnerships agent. The announcement follows on the heels of the recent hiring announcements of Nashville-based Scott Clayton as co-head of global music, Matthew Morgan as co-head of UTA Nashville, and Buster Phillips as a rock agent. “We are honored to welcome this powerhouse group of industry professionals into our Music City headquarters,” said David Zedeck, partner and co-head of global music. “The collective…
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Best Songs of 2021 – The New York Times
Jon Pareles | Jon Caramanica | Lindsay Zoladz Jon Pareles’s Top 25 Many of the best songs of 2021 are on the best albums of 2021, listed here. But of course there are many more: peaks of other albums, onetime collaborations, singles, random streams. Here are 25 memorable songs, arranged partly as a ranking but mostly as a mixtape. 1. Prince, ‘Welcome 2 America’ Recorded in 2010 but shelved until 2021, Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” was all too prescient, contemplating disinformation, consumer distractions, celebrity, desperation and historical legacies: “land of the free, home of the slave.” The bass line skulks, women harmonize, and Prince just speaks, bleak and deadpan. 2.…
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Music News Digest, Dec. 6, 2021
Via a Facebook post on Saturday, famed Canadian vocalist David Clayton-Thomas (of Blood, Sweat & Tears fame) announced that “I am officially retiring from the concert stage. I am now past my 80th birthday… having survived two heart surgeries and 60 years of rock & roll, it’s time to hang it up. If I can’t perform at the level people expect of me then I won’t perform at all… I won’t embarrass myself or disappoint my fans. My eternal gratitude to all the gifted musicians and hard-working crews who have travelled the world with me for six decades and made every night a magical experience… it’s been a trip. Our musical collaboration…
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Ana Matronic got her love of robots from Star Wars – Music News
Ana Matronic became obsessed with robots after watching ‘Star Wars’ because C-3PO reminded her of her dad. The Scissor Sisters member shared how her lifelong love of sci-fi began when she was barely three years old. The 47-year-old singer told Danielle Perry on the Absolute Radio podcast ‘Elevenses with Danielle Perry’: It started with ‘Star Wars’, which was the first film I remember seeing in the theatre, right around age three, not even age three. And I remember really clearly thinking that C-3PO was a lot like my dad. And we would joke that he was kind of like him and kind of like, uptight and fastidious and persnickety and…
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Why Do You Love (Or Hate) Holiday Music?
The season is upon us and there is no escaping it. “The Christmas Song” greets us at warmly lit restaurants. “White Christmas” follows us down the supermarket bread aisle. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” stupefies us everywhere Pay Per Touch. What makes holiday music so unavoidably popular year after year? Why do so many people love it—and so many others detest it? It has to do with nostalgia, say Northeastern faculty experts. “There’s this wonderful classic finding called the reminiscence bump that is especially true in music,” says Psyche Loui, a Northeastern associate professor of creativity and creative practice as well as director of the Music, Imaging, and…
