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Episode Four of their ongoing Song Machine series. Over the last six months Gorillaz have teamed up with artists including Slaves, Fatoumata Diawara, Peter Hook and Georgia for Song Machine, an episodic series of singles and hybrid videos, in which Damon Albarn’s real life collaborators join Jamie Hewlett’s cartoon creations. South east London MC Octavian…

via Gorillaz link up with Octavian for poignant single, ‘Friday 13th’ — FACT Magazine

‘Best Urban Contemporary Album’ category renamed ‘Best Progressive R&B Album’ amongst other changes Source

via Grammys drop ‘Urban’ from R&B category amongst new rules that ‘reflect the current state of the music industry.’ — Music Business Worldwide

Zoran Basich Contributor Share on Twitter Zoran Basich is the crypto editor for Andreessen Horowitz. More posts by this contributor Crypto Startup School: Capturing value in crypto through network effects and mechanism design Crypto Startup School: How to scale companies using crypto Editor’s note: Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around…

via Crypto Startup School: How to build companies by building communities     — TechCrunch

Travis Scott has been sued for alleged copyright infringement on his US No.1 single, Highest in the Room. At the centre of a lawsuit, filed in California on Tuesday (June 9), musicians and producers Olivier Bassil, Benjamin Lasnier and Lukas Benjamin Leth claim that a melody used in the track is a plagiarised version of…

via Travis Scott accused of copyright infringement in lawsuit filed by Blurred Lines lawyer Richard Busch — Music Business Worldwide

First collaborative project is a multi-view live streamed event on June 14 Source

via BTS label Big Hit Entertainment inks global deal with video steaming firm Kiswe, whose tech is used by the NBA, MLS and PGA Tour — Music Business Worldwide

EMPIRE to integrate Top Drawer Merch as it’s merchandising arm Source

via EMPIRE challenges majors in merch world with acquisition of Top Drawer Merch/Electric Family — Music Business Worldwide

Newman was previously Editor of the BBC’s 1Xtra and joined Apple in 2018 Source

via Ryan Newman promoted to Head of Editorial for Apple Music in the UK — Music Business Worldwide

Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of the early fifth-century Roman Empire. Doors were slammed in immigrants’ faces when they asked for food, immigrant family members were kidnapped and beaten on the road, an immigrant house of worship was set on fire. One commentator, taking…

via Ancient Rome Thrived When the Empire Welcomed Immigrants. We Should Remember What Happened When That Changed — TIME

David C. Linton, Chairman of The Living Legends Foundation, offers a timely history lesson on the US business Source

via Dropping ‘Urban’: Déjà vu All Over Again — Music Business Worldwide