QSC has announced the release of the new "Rent It Now" program, which connects customers with participating QSC rental companies. The "Rent It Now" program link allows visitors to QSC.com to easily and quickly find participating dealer rental locations that rent QSC products including TouchMix compact digital mixers, K, KW and KLA powered loudspeakers and more for portable live sound applications.
Posted on: 21/05/2015Categories: News from TPi Magazine
Kobalt Music Publishing (KMP) announced today that it has completed a new deal with LAVA Music Publishing, the company founded by renowned U.S. label head, Jason Flom. Under the new agreement, KMP will provide exclusive worldwide publishing administration, synchronization and licensing rights in addition to creative services. New signings following the deal include songwriters Scott Stevens and Max Matluck and LAVA Records' newest priority signing, Maty Noyes.
Posted on: 21/05/2015Categories: News from RotD
Omnifone® today announces that it is powering Q.SIC's innovative new commercial streaming music service. Utilising MusicStation, Omnifone's industry leading music cloud Q.SIC delivers commercially licensed digital music solutions to retail and hospitality businesses throughout Australia.
Posted on: 21/05/2015Categories: News from RotD
Speaking at the Vote For Music Keynote session at The Great Escape in Brighton, Martin Goldschmidt, Managing Director of the Cooking Vinyl Group explained: "The tax breaks that currently exist to help the music industry actually give the tax break to private investors. As exists for other creative industries, why not also have a scheme that gives the break directly to music?" Support would be best targeted as a tax break for recorded music production. Many of the tax breaks offered to film,...
Posted on: 21/05/2015Categories: News from RotD
BMG is pleased to announce it has acquired pioneering US metal and hard rock label Rise Records. Rise – home to artists including Of Mice & Men, Memphis May Fire, Crown The Empire and The Devil Wears Prada – was founded by Craig Ericson in 1991. Using digital media it has become the center of a growing underground community with its YouTube video channel boasting more than 1.4m subscribers, more than major labels many times its size. Current releases include White Noise by PVRIS,...
Posted on: 21/05/2015Categories: News from RotD
Play Deep Studios is a brand new boutique recording studio in King's Cross, London, featuring an Otari 54 Series 36 mixing desk, the only one of its kind in the UK.
Owned and operated by Canadian-British DJ Zachary Spider Brown-Smith (aka Spydabrown), this cozy and chic recording facility features 3 fully equipped studio rooms, each with its own vocal booth and shared access to a live floor. Clients may create customised rental packages, and will have access to gear sure to excite all...
Posted on: 23/04/2015Categories: Featured Client Profiles
The Great Escape returns to Brighton for it's 10th anniversary taking place 14th-16th May. Line up includes Lapsley, Shamir, Slaves, Ibeyi, The Cribs, Gaz Coombes, Tkay Maidza, Lion Babe, Blossoms, Baxter Dury, Django Django, Swim Deep, SongHoy Blues and 400+ more artists as well as the CMU Insights convention strands, targeted networking and delegate parties.
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Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: Industry Event News
The latest efforts by the American record industry to force terrestrial radio stations to pay royalties to labels solidified around a new piece of legislation in Congress yesterday, The Fair Play, Fair Pay Act, with four members of the House Of Representatives backing the bill: Democrats Jerrold Nadler, John Conyers Jr and Ted Deutch and Republican Marsha Blackburn.
As much previously reported, federal copyright law in the US is unusual in that it does not provide a general public performance...
Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
PRS For Music is having another big think about the way live music is licensed in the UK in the form of an eight week consultation on the terms of its Popular Music Concerts Tariff (aka Tariff LP).
Promoters of gigs and festivals are obliged to pay royalties to songwriters and music publishers for the songs that are performed at their events, of course, even when artists sing exclusively their own material, and these royalties are paid via the Performing Right Society. The PRS last launched...
Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: News from CMU Online
Cross sector trade body UK Music has announced the appointment of a new Director Of Communications in the form of James Murtagh-Hopkins, who has previously held in-house and agency PR roles in the music space, as well as stints working in artist management and music film.
Posted on: 15/04/2015Categories: News from CMU Online