
So, how do people working in music know who's signing who, what those pesky record labels are up to, what the latest download whatnot is, who is moving and shaking, who is spending and saving, who is planning and scheming, or, for that matter, what Pete and Amy and Britney are up to? Simple, they read CMU Daily, the UK music business' biggest and most popular daily news bulletin. Now you to can get the lowdown from Team CMU, here on the CMU-Blog. You'll find even more at www.thecmuwebsite.com
Posted Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:58AM GMT
Radiohead have responded to Miley Cyrus' claims that she planned to
"ruin" the band after they failed to accept a request to meet her
backstage at The Grammys last month.
As previously reported, Cyrus told WENN earlier this month: & More »
Posted Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:50AM GMT
Legal firm Carter-Ruck have got two injunctions from the High Court
under the Protection From Harassment Act in a bid to stop the paps from
following that Lily Allen chick.
The
legal types went to court last week after one pap's car collid More »
Posted Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:47AM GMT
The guy who leaked Guns N Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' onto the
internet ahead of its release last year could get a multi-month jail
term if the feds who have pursued the criminal copyright infringement
case against him get their way.
Accord More »
Posted Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:41AM GMT
Back to the live sector, and secondary ticketing (the resale of
tickets at marked up prices, increasingly via the web), an issue much
discussed at ILMC, and one on which Trent Reznor had a lot to say this
weekend too. ... More »
Posted Tue 17 Mar 2009 11:37AM GMT
So, the headline voxpop to come out of this weekend's International
Live Music Conference in London, the big bash for the live music
sector, was the claim that the UK's live industry is now bigger than
the UK's record industry in terms of revenue. More »
Posted Mon 16 Mar 2009 11:39AM GMT
Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has responded to Trent Reznor's previously reported Twitter rant about his new Timbaland-produced album ‘Scream'. As previously reported, Reznor said of ‘Scream': "You know that feeling you get wh More »
Posted Mon 16 Mar 2009 11:37AM GMT
OK, despite producer Polow da Don seemingly confirming to the world last week that rumours that Rihanna and Chris Brown were back in the studio working together were true, a source has now said the former power couple of American R More »
Posted Mon 16 Mar 2009 11:35AM GMT
With the deadline now passed for feedback from content owners and digital service providers to Lord Carter's previously reported ‘Digital Britain' report on the future of internet access, TV, radio and online content services in the UK, the governm More »
Posted Mon 16 Mar 2009 11:32AM GMT
It took a few days for the video blockade to noticeably kick in, but if you search for music videos by most major artists on YouTube in the UK this morning you'll invariably get the "not available in your country" line as the Google-owned video More »
Posted Fri 13 Mar 2009 11:59AM GMT
So, back to the good old Phil Spector re-trial where the defence
rested their case yesterday, again without Spector himself taking to
the witness stand.
Defence
lawyer Doron Weinberg - who has been much more dashing and severe than
any of More »