Kanye West gave the world a rare glimpse into the music industry’s labyrinth of recording contracts last week when he tweeted out his own paperwork with Universal Music Group — and then lambasted those agreements as exploitative and unfair, demanding his copyrights be returned to him. As far as the actual deal goes, Kanye’s isn’t particularly bad: Music lawyers who spoke with Rolling Stone call West’s deal standard for an artist at his level…
The new flavor in predominantly white Hollywood is black, and the man who is stirring things up is Andre Harrell, the 32-year-old founder of Uptown Entertainment. His $50 million contract with MCA…
At the end of 2018, the reggae star Buju Banton returned to Jamaica after almost seven years in a US prison, and Norman Manley international airport was mobbed. His flight was delayed, the chants of…
While many new music tech companies are trying for subtle tweaks on existing concepts, there are plenty of aspects of the modern industry that do genuinely need refreshing. These range from the…
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