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Monday, June 4
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Can AI make it to number one?
Post from BBC News -
Neil Young’s online archives are a revolution in fandom
Post from The Guardian -
Britain’s biggest festival organizer dismays campaigners by backtracking on support for drug testing
Post from The Independent -
Music startup Roli adds Sony as investor, eyes up expanded range of hardware and software
Post from TechCrunch -
Whose rap flow was the sickest?
Post from The Ringer -
Ticketfly update: Venue, promoter sites coming along, purchases enabled
Post from Pollstar
Tuesday, June 5
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Pusha T was no match for Shawn Mendes on the Billboard chart
Item from NY Times -
Discover weakly: Sexism on Spotify
Post from The Baffler -
Clarence Fountain, founding member of Blind Boys of Alabama, dies at 88
Obituary from Billboard -
BBC to close Maida Vale studios and move live music base to East London
Post from The Guardian -
As the music industry gathers at MIDEM, a look at who’s leading in international
Post from Variety -
Ticketfly hacker stole more than 26 million email and home addresses
Post from Engadget
Wednesday, June 6
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Facebook is finally putting music back in social networking
Post from Rolling Stone -
Spotify gets serious about hardware, registers with FCC
Post from Variety -
What exactly makes a country outlaw?
Post from Pitchfork -
Guitar Hero Live goes offline in December, making 92% of its songs unplayable
Post from Ars Technica -
Jalaal Mansur Nuriddin: Farewell to the ‘grandfather of rap’
Obituary from The Guardian -
A California musician claimed sound could improve oil flow. Now feds are suing him for swindling Texas investors
Story from Dallas Morning News
Thursday, June 7
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Metropolitan Police apply for court order to stop gang members from making drill music, in an unprecedented move
Story from The Independent -
Spotify offers managers, artists advances to license music directly to its streaming service
Post from Billboard -
‘As a manager, if you want something for your client, you have to be really bullish’
Interview from Music Business Worldwide -
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I was very optimistic when I was young – now I’m the opposite’
Interview from The Guardian -
VR music festivals could become a widespread reality in the near future
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Prince estate announces new album ‘Piano and a Microphone 1983’
Post from Pitchfork
Friday, June 8
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Roobound: How Bonnaroo rises above the festival glut
Story from Pollstar -
How Taylor Swift flipped online fandom on its head for the better
Post from CNET -
Ticketfly is finally back online after hack
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PledgeMusic falls behind in payments to artists, promises fix
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Music biz challenges and lessons: Read RIAA chief Cary Sherman’s MIDEM speech
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Lost John Coltrane recording from 1963 will be released at last
Post from NY Times
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