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Here is What the UK’s Largest Music Companies are Paying Women Compared to Men
According to a report published in Music Business Worldwide, there was a sizable wage gap between men and women in some of the largest music companies in the UK this year. In the UK, companies with over 250 employees are legally required to report their gender pay gap stats by April 4th of each year, a mandate that has been in effect since 2017. However, after reporting deadlines were interrupted by the impact of COVID-19, many UK companies were not required to file their gender pay gap stats. Two of the three largest major music companies in the UK, Sony and Warner, did file their reports, though, in addition to a litany of others, including streaming behemoth Spotify. As of April 5th, 2019, the average gender pay gap at Sony Music UK was 26.0%, and 31.5% at Warner Music UK. Spotify UK re...
Steve Kroeger and Skye Holland Team Up for Spellbinding House Number “Through the Dark”
Steve Kroeger and Skye Holland have joined forces for a new single, the bewitching house number “Through the Dark.” With its mesmerizing melodies and spellbinding soundscapes, the track, which arrived on SOURCE just before Independence Day, moonlights as an ideal tune to play out as the sun goes down on the night of July 4th. Holland’s potent vocals shimmer over Kroeger’s entrancing production, which utilizes a heart-pumping four-to-the-floor house rhythm in true SOURCE fashion. The single does a fantastic job of tightroping the line between kinetic and hypnotic, featuring nuanced production throughout its bouncy arrangement. “Through the Dark” is not the first time Kroeger and Holland have joined forces, as the two dance dynamos previously lin...
Flume’s Remix of Eiffel 65’s “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” is Officially Back Up
Flume, a true poet of our generation, rocked our feeds when he dropped in with a post on Instagram back in May 2020 that read, “Roses r red my face is blue here is a song I made it for u.” The Australian producer painted up to look as if he was a member of the Blue Man Group while playing the 1998 Europop Grammy Award-nominated cult hit “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65 was the exact content we needed. While it originally was brushed off as quarantine fun, it actually blossomed into a highly anticipated official remix. Just yesterday it was uploaded to Beatport, but mysteriously went missing, causing raise for concern if licensing issues had anything to do with the song’s disappearance. However, it’s now back up and available across all pla...
Liturgy and LEYA Collaborate on New Song “Antigone”: Stream
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Liturgy), courtesy of Promo Jukebox / Marilu Donovn & Adam Markiewicz (LEYA), photo by Erin Krimian Brooklyn black metal group Liturgy and NYC avant-pop duo LEYA have joined forces for a new collaborative single, “Antigone”. The track showcases the ambitious experimentation of both projects. The genre-blending black metal present on Liturgy’s 2019 album H.A.Q.Q. returns to provide a backdrop, accentuating the yearning vocals of LEYA’s Adam Markiewicz. “Originally its purpose was as a single to promote a tour we were going to do together last April that ended up getting cancelled,” Liturgy’s Hunter Hunt-Hendrix told Paper magazine of the song’s origins. “The track had a different name originally, and we would have put it out in early April, but held off, because we ...
Vanilla Ice Only Sold 284 Tickets Prior to Canceling His Coronavirus Concert
Vanilla Ice canceled his Fourth of July concert in Texas, citing concerns over the coronavirus and the safety of his fans. But lackluster ticket sales may have also contributed to his decision. Thanks to a legal loophole in Texas allowing restaurants to stay open at 50% capacity, Vanilla Ice had been scheduled to headline the “Independence Day Throwback Beach Party” at the Emerald Point Bar & Grill on Friday night. The venue made 2,500 tickets available to the event, with prices ranging from $25 to $300. But of those, only 284 were sold prior to Vanilla Ice deciding to cancel the show. The venue’s owner, William Brannam, told ABC News that he sold 84 general admission tickets, 96 VIP tickets, and 104 seated tickets. For comparison, Vanilla Ice played at the same venue last year an...
Neil Young Again Lashes Out At Trump Over Unauthorized Use of Music
Neil Young considers Donald Trump “a disgrace to my country,” so you can understand his furor over the repeated, unauthorized use of his music at campaign events. Last night, during Trump’s super racist Fourth of July celebration at Mount Rushmore, at least three of Young’s songs played aloud: “Keep on Rockin in the Free World”, “Like a Hurricane”, and “Cowgirl in the Sand” Young responded to a clip of “Rockin in the Free World” being played by writing simply, “This is NOT Ok with me…” He later quote tweeted a second clip, writing, “I stand in solidarity with the Lakota Sioux & this is NOT ok with me.” (For context, the Lakota Sioux was the indigenous group of people who were forced off their land and saw their spiritual shrine “The Six Grandfathers” turned into Mount Ru...
R.I.P. Ennio Morricone, Legendary Italian Composer Dies at 91
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who gave life to Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns and scored over 500 titles for film and television, has died. He was 91. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Morricone died in Rome following complications from a fall last week that resulted in a broken femur bone. One of the most influential composers of all time, Morricone’s resume is infinite and involves essential collaborations with the aforementioned Leone, Giuseppe Tornatore, Dario Argento, Brian De Palma, Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter, and the list goes on. This is a developing story… You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and...
Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s ‘Savage Love’ Rules ARIA Singles Chart
Jawsh 685 claims a slice of history as “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (Columbia/Sony), his collaboration with Jason Derulo, climbs to the summit of Australia’s singles chart. The Auckland producer (real name Joshua Stylah) becomes just the third New Zealander to lead the ARIA Singles Chart in its 37-year history. And at 17 years of age, he’s the youngest. It’s been nearly a quarter century since a Kiwi act led Australia’s singles chart. OMC last did it with “How Bizarre,” back in April 1996. The first New Zealander to lead the chart was Dave Dobbyn with Herbs’ “Slice Of Heaven” in May 1987. “Savage Love,” which also rules the Official U.K. Singles Chart this week, becomes the fourth No. 1 single in Australia for U.S. R&B singer Derulo after “In My Head” (February 2010), “Talk...
Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s ‘Savage Love’ Takes Early Lead In U.K. Chart Race
Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (RCA) is on track for a second week atop the U.K. singles chart. The single, combining the talents of 17-year-old New Zealand producer Joshua Stylah and featuring the vocals of U.S. R&B artist Derulo, climbed to the summit in its third week on the tally. Following the weekend’s sales and streaming activity, “Savage Love” pulls ahead with a lead of 2,300 combined sales, according to the Official Charts Company. It’s the top title on the Official Chart: First Look, ahead of Dababy’s “Rockstar” (Interscope) featuring Roddy Ricch, and Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me” (Interscope), respectively. AJ Tracey and Mabel’s “West Ten” should score the week’s highest new entry when the Official U.K. Sin...
Ennio Morricone, Legendary Composer for the Movies, Dies at 91
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar winner whose haunting, inventive scores expertly accentuated the simmering, dialogue-free tension of the spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, has died. He was 91. The Italian composer, who scored more than 500 films — seven for his countryman Leone after they had met as kids in elementary school — died in Rome following complications from a fall last week in which he broke his femur. A native and lifelong resident of Rome whose first instrument was the trumpet, Morricone won his Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015) and also was nominated for his original scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Roland Joffe’s The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Barry Levinson’s Bugsy (1991) and Giuseppe To...
Elton John Celebrated With His Very Own U.K. Coin
First there was the Grammy Salute, then a biopic, and a memoir. Now the Rocket Man has his very own coin. Elton John becomes the first solo artist to be celebrated with an official U.K. coin, created by The Royal Mint and Universal Music Group’s Bravado merch division. The commemorative edition is launched today (July 6), and features Elton iconography from a 50-year-plus career which has yielded 50 Top 40 hits and more than 300 million albums sold worldwide. Across the range in gold, silver and in non-precious metal, designer Bradley Morgan Johnson uses musical notes to create an image of Elton’s trademark glasses, topped with a hat and bow-tie on a Union Jack background. “It really is a fabulous honor to be recognized in this way,” comments John in a statement. “The last few y...
LAMB OF GOD’s WILLIE ADLER Explains Decision To Make New Album Self-Titled Affair
In an interview with the “Ghost Cult Podcast”, LAMB OF GOD guitarist Willie Adler spoke about the band’s decision to make its latest album a self-titled effort. He said: “It was a real intuitive process going into this record. Not that it was drastically different than any other record. Mark [Morton, guitar] and I felt everything starts with the riffs, so we write the same — we’ve been writing the same probably for years. But this time around, we did a few different writing sessions — just Mark and myself and Josh [Wilbur], our producer. And we would let months lapse in between those, so it kind of gave our ears a break from what we had done the last time and then we were able to come back. And it allowed for a much more writing session. So by the end of this ...
