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...(Side note: the bank also made cringey music videos, Alphaville has discovered.)...
...Others, like the lawsuit that Wigdor filed this month against music mogul Sean Combs, are only glimpsed in public....
...The Brussels effect There’s already a sense in Europe that the mood music for big tech has changed....
...“Many people suspect I’m a ‘white glove’ for the government,” he told the WSJ in 2015. “But we’re really just a very market-oriented company.”...
...But the music loving, philanthropic father of four, has a darker side....
...“You wonder would YouTube be as useful and as a competing force to music or in video had it not been enhanced and improved through the tech resources that Google had?”...
...At one point, Reince Priebus, then White House chief of staff, walked in to check on the visitors. He was waved away....
...It was a young white man from Michigan who called himself Eminem....
...Broadcast out of Trump Tower in New York, the segments feature well-coiffed anchors, peppy headlines and patriotic background music....
...Facebook and Reddit have removed several white nationalist groups, while Spotify, the music streaming service, said it had removed tracks by “hate bands” as classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center....
...White America wanted a pop princess, and she was packaged accordingly, but “Whitney was from the hood!”...
...Streaming is the industry’s latest white knight but after decades of grappling with pirates, new technologies and evaporating sales, music executives know there will be twists to come....
...Breitbart, who died unexpectedly in 2012 aged 43, was not a typical conservative — he once told the FT he enjoyed late 1980s dance music culture — but found himself appalled by Mr Thomas’s treatment by Senate...
...Podcasts seem to have provided the White House with an answer. Listen to an FT podcast about the ‘podcast renaissance’...
...Zeppelin had got themselves into trouble on an earlier album by failing to properly credit Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor” as a key component in “The Lemon Song” (Wolf’s music publisher sued; the parties...
...Enter streaming, the latest white knight with potential to return the music industry to the good times....
...Systrom strides in to find me waiting at his white oval marble table....
...From How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt, published on June 16, 2015 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright by Stephen Witt, 2015....
...Deutsche Bank, its rival, is also about to lose the head of its forex division, Kevin Rodgers, who is set to retire to pursue interests in academia and music....
...“Before then white rappers were unacceptable and not seen as being authentic,” says Paul Rosenberg, Eminem’s manager and chief executive of Goliath Artists Management....
...While Apple’s multicoloured iPhones, in-house line of cases and redesigned white “earpod” headphones show that it already has a feel for the importance of accessories and personalisation, Beats’ offers a...
...The only thing Apple watchers seem to agree on is that nobody saw it coming, even though Reuters reported talks about some sort of tie-up over streaming music more than a year ago....
...(Financial Times) Apple is closing in on its largest acquisition with the planned $3.2bn purchase of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streaming operator founded by music producer Jimmy Iovine...
...Endeavor was born in 1994 when Ari Emanuel, the hard-charging brother of former White House chief of staff Rahm (now mayor of Chicago) and then an agent with International Creative Management, struck out...
...Stephen White, president of Gracenote, said: “The marriage of these world-class music and video data platforms, from TMS and Gracenote, will help us reimagine how people discover and connect with music,...
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