Spotify Launches ‘Bandsplain’ Podcast, About Cult Artists and Why People Love Them

It has been revealed that certain K-Pop artists are no longer on Spotify, according to NME.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation has taken a timeline provided by the British government as an all-clear for the summer festival season, selling some 170,000 tickets this week to three major U.K.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn its earnings reports for the last quarter and full year of 2020, the year of the pandemic, Live Nation shows remarkable optimism for the projected return of live entertainment.Despite a devastating  year in revenue and ticket sales for the world’s largest live-entertainment company, Live Nation’s stock is actually higher than it was before the pandemic — at the time of this article’s publication, it was at 87.05 compared with 67.76 a year ago — and it reports

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBarack Obama sat down with Bruce Springsteen for a series of wide-ranging conversations that will hit Spotify as an exclusive original podcast — the newest entry in the company’s expanding slate of audio programming.“Renegades: Born in the USA” is an eight-episode podcast featuring the former president and The Boss, who have been friends for over a decade, “in deep and revealing conversation,” according to Spotify.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs part of a long presentation called “Stream On,” Spotify announced that it will be introducing a hi-fi option later this year, among other benefits for fans and creators.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTwo of Latin music’s biggest young stars, Bad Bunny and Rosalia, teamed up for a steamy duet on their song “La Noche de Anoche,” on “Saturday Night Live” on Feb 20.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe gaming platform Twitch, which has had no shortage of music-copyright issues in recent months, cut off the audio for Metallica’s BlizzCon performance Friday due to legal concerns, replacing it with comically inappropriate instrumental folk music.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRock and Roll Hall of Famers the Beach Boys have become the latest artists to sell their catalog and other assets: The group announced Thursday that Irving Azoff’s recently launched Iconic Artists Group has purchased a controlling interest in its intellectual property, including their sound recordings, the brand, select musical compositions, and memorabilia.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Mechanical Licensing Collective announced Tuesday that it has received a total of $424,384,787 in accrued historical unmatched royalties from Spotify, Apple Music and other digital service providers, along with corresponding data reports that identify the usage related to these royalties. In other words, some songwriters and publishers will be receiving a windfall once the MLC reviews and analyzes the data to pay the copyright holders — the MLC anticipates

KSI has launched a new record label dubbed ‘The Online Takeover’ with his manager Mams Taylor.The London rapper – who’s also known as a YouTuber, boxer, actor and author – has already signed his first artist – Aiyana Lee – the niece of David Ruffin from The Temptations and granddaughter of Motown legend Jimmy Ruffin.KSI said of the label in a statement: “TOT. The online takeover.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSpotify announced Tuesday that Mona Sutphen will join its board of directors in April, subject to shareholder approval.Sutphen is a private equity advisor and a co-founder/advisor for several technology start-ups, and was a senior White House official during the Obama Administration. She is currently a Senior Advisor at The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm, and is a venture advisor and co-founder of several technology start-ups.

Blake Shelton loves being a stepfather to Gwen Stefani’s children, and he has a good role model in his own life.

Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are two of the cover stars of People‘s first-ever “Love” issue.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor a new artist, a debut appearance on “Saturday Night Live” is a career milestone: an iconic show hedging the bet that you’re ready to go to the next level.

Also Read: Magnolia Pictures Acquires French Love Story 'Two of Us'Madeleine and Nina have planned to sell their apartments and retire together to Italy, but Madeleine has two children, Anne (Léa Drucker) and Frédéric (Jérôme Varanfrain), and she has never managed to tell them that she is in a relationship with Nina.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMorgan Wallen, country music’s biggest new star, suddenly found himself a pariah from the nation’s airwaves after video of him using a racial slur emerged late Tuesday.

Anton Danyluk and his bottom shaving mum Sherie Ann have launched a new podcast called What's The Crack? Sherie Ann, from Airdrie, went viral on social media after her appearance on ITV2's Aftersun following gym owner Anton's progress on Love Island 2019.The Love Island Scot shocked viewers after revealing his mum shaved his bum before appearing on the hit dating show.The pair, whose relationship has been dubbed 'weird' by some promise to talk life, trials and tribulations around their

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Los Angeles-based music and technology company Create Music Group has launched a beta version of Create Carbon, a credit card that it says will give music creators the ability to access their royalties as soon as they’re earned, rather waiting to receive them via regular monthly payouts.The company prides itself on showing artists how much money they’re making on a daily basis by pulling millions of different data points from sources like Spotify, Apple Music