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Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Go to U.S. Appeals Court to Overturn Royalty Increase

2086 days ago

Chorus.fm — Jem Aswad and Chris Willman, writing at Variety: Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have teamed up to appeal a controversial ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that, if it goes through, would increase payouts to songwriters by 44%, Variety h... more info

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Why Didn’t Lorde Perform at the Grammys?

2489 days ago

Chorus.fm — Jem Aswad, writing for Variety: Sources close to the situation tell Variety that the Grammys approached Lorde about performing with other artists but not solo; one source says it was part of a tribute to the late Tom Petty involving his song “Ameri... more info

Lorde Aswad Tom Petty

Don Letts 2016-05-22 Culture Clash Radio with Crucial Vinyl from Aswad

3105 days ago

Core News — “The Don’s selections cross time, space and genre and include Crucial Vinyl from Aswad. Each week, as well as blending key new releases with classics from the UK, USA, Jamaica, Africa and beyond, Don highlights a piece of Crucial Vinyl – a cher... more info

Don Letts Aswad Culture Clash

The Mobos' real problem is not being too white: it's being too commercial

4401 days ago

Guardian Music — There's never been a better time for successful black music. But the shortlist for last night's awards celebrated safety over new talent. It's time the Mobos changedThe UK music press was looking northward to Liverpool on Saturday night for the annua... more info

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Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results

4467 days ago

Guardian Music — Has your suggestion made the playlist this week? Gather your nerves and find outThis week's playlist has been selected by Magicman.• My favourite song title this week was Jetplane Landing's There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Fear. As commenta... more info

Aswad Eminem Electric Light Orchestra Youssou N'Dour Karine Polwart Bing Crosby Sam Cooke

Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics

4535 days ago

Guardian Music — Hip-hop stars from home and abroad to play to 100,000 of east London's forgotten youth audience at Hackney MarshesThe open spaces of Hackney Marshes normally play host to 82 full-sized football pitches and innumerable Sunday league kickabouts. Club s... more info

Jay-Z Rihanna Leona Lewis Wretch 32 Aswad Status Quo Lady Gaga Jack White

Seen Kevin Macdonald's Marley biopic? Here's more reggae on celluloid

4596 days ago

Guardian Music — From Kingston to Lewisham, here are five other must-see reggae moviesThe Harder They Come (Dir. Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972)Jamaica's first feature, and the one against which others are measured. The plot – poor country boy seeks fortune in city �... more info

Gregory Isaacs Aswad Jah Shaka Dennis Bovell The Wailers

Lover's rock: the story of reggae's Motown

4809 days ago

Guardian Music — Lover's rock influenced the Police and Sade, and gave women a voice in reggae – so why was it sidelined in its native Britain?In 1979, Janet Kay's piercing falsetto was one of the defining sounds of the summer. Silly Games, her bittersweet ode to a... more info

Sade Janet Kay Dennis Bovell Aswad Culture Club

Reggae Britannia (BBC Rockumentary)

4820 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — The acclaimed BBC4 Britannia series moves into the world of British reggae. Showing how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society, the programme includes major artists and performances fro... more info

Max Romeo Jerry Dammers UB40 Dennis Bovell Janet Kay Aswad Boy George Paul Weller

Glastonbury plays host to tax protest at a sort of homecoming for U2

4900 days ago

Guardian Music — Bono and U2 in the firing line over alleged tax avoidance as Glastonbury festival aims to return to its radical rootsThe last time U2 played Glastonbury a low-flying aircraft towed an anti-CND banner past the newly-erected pyramid stage. It was 1982,... more info

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Spotify, Google, Pandora, Amazon Go to U.S. Appeals Court to Overturn Royalty Increase

Why Didn’t Lorde Perform at the Grammys?

Don Letts 2016-05-22 Culture Clash Radio with Crucial Vinyl from Aswad

The Mobos' real problem is not being too white: it's being too commercial

Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results

Radio 1's Hackney Weekend offers an urban alternative to the Olympics

Seen Kevin Macdonald's Marley biopic? Here's more reggae on celluloid

Lover's rock: the story of reggae's Motown

Reggae Britannia (BBC Rockumentary)

Glastonbury plays host to tax protest at a sort of homecoming for U2

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