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More than one Brevity guest blogger has woken up to an email from me saying, “Your blog is up this morning, I grabbed an author photo from your website and made up a quick bio from what I could find, let me know if the bio isn’t quite right.” In my other life, managing events, […]

via Author Website 101 — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

By Michael Lewis There is a fine line between just enough and too much information. The trouble begins with the simple urge to over-explain—just a few details here, one metaphor too many there. This slippery slope ends when the reader discovers you are not giving them credit to figure things out on their own. Once […]

via Just Enough Light to See: How to Keep Your Story Moving — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog

Exploring modular synthesisers and the art of making electronic music with hardware. JakoJako is a Berlin-based techno artist who primarily performs live and uses modular synthesis extensively in her music. Last year she released her debut EP on Leisure System, and she also works at SchneidersLaden, one of the world’s most famous stores for modular…

via Patch Notes: JakoJako — FACT Magazine

Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have been in flight on orbit since launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday at 3:22 PM EDT, a historic launch that…

via Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station — TechCrunch

Exec has been Managing Director of the label since it was acquired by Sony Music in 2016 Source

via Dipesh Parmar promoted to President of Ministry of Sound Recordings — Music Business Worldwide

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A bracing set of adventurous club music and experimental sounds. Zoë Mc Pherson is a producer, sound designer, live performer and DJ based in Berlin who creates “fucked up rhythms” from mangled field recordings. She’s also a multimedia artist who creates audiovisual works with frequent collaborator, visual artist and director Alessandra Leone. Mc Pherson’s new album, States…

via FACT mix 760: Zoë Mc Pherson — FACT Magazine

Jon Platt, Chairman & CEO of the world’s biggest music publisher, Sony/ATV, has spoken out on the topic of racial injustice, amid a wave of civil unrest taking place across the United States. Many global companies in the music business, including Sony/ATV, are set to observe ‘Black Out Tuesday’ tomorrow (June 2) in solidarity with…

via Sony/ATV’s Jon Platt: A Change Must Come — Music Business Worldwide

‘We wanted to prioritize a sharpened engine for relevant recommendations and track suggestions.’ Source

via JioSaavn updates include ‘improved’ AI recommendations, looping visuals, music videos & ‘elevated podcasts’ — Music Business Worldwide

One of the methods the clubs used to recruit members – was to give away records as a premium, another practice that continues unabated. Thus, new artists and even more venerable artists without star-powered negotiating leverage (or a competent lawyer) found language similar to this in their contracts: No royalty shall be payable with respect […]

via Retailing records series; (part 2) Records become a commodity and face real estate prices and profit margins (II) — Music Matters