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Sociologist Yuri Aslanov says Bulgaria's government collapsed after massive street protests forced politicians to bail, and another snap election looks inevitable. The ruling party couldn't handle the heat from citizens demanding accountability and clean governance, though the timing and outcome...

Warner Music shuffled the deck across Australia and Southeast Asia by bumping up Alex Young to handle domestic artist operations and promoting Dan Ellis to run international strategy for the whole region. Young gets Charlotte Kindred as her right hand for export planning, plus Sarah Thomas...

Jay-Z's private equity outfit MarcyPen teamed up with South Korean asset manager Hanwha to drop a $500 million fund aimed at boosting Korean culture brands worldwide. MarcyPen handles over $900 million in assets after merging Jay-Z's Marcy Venture Partners with Pendulum Holdings back in...

Graham Gouldman from 10cc is going after his old manager, Harvey Lisberg, and the publisher Man-Ken Music for hanging onto US copyrights, he says belong back to him. The songwriter sent termination notices back in 2020 for 13 tracks he registered between 1965 and 1968, but Lisberg allegedly kept...

Pro Music Rights and its parent company are threatening to sue Wisconsin Representative Scott Fitzgerald after he asked the FTC to investigate the PRO for sketchy business practices. Chairman Jake P. Noch says the letter contains false claims about the company's catalog and accuses Fitzgerald of...

Rostrum Pacific pulled $150 million from Crayhill Capital Management to buy up music catalogs, and the indie label outfit plans to scale up acquisitions through its SpaceHeater distribution platform. CEO Benjy Grinberg merged Rostrum Records, Fat Beats, Cantora Records, and SpaceHeater under one...

Spotify dropped a beta feature in New Zealand that lets people type out prompts to generate custom playlists, and the algorithm pulls from their entire listening history plus wider music trends. Users can ask for stuff like deep cuts from their top artists over the last five years or request a...

Warner Chappell Music merged all its sync licensing operations under Rich Robinson, who already runs global synchronization and media as EVP. Gavin Caroll from the Production Music side will report directly to Robinson instead of working separately, and Robinson also gets oversight of the Audio...

Charlotte Stahl bounced from TikTok after spending more than five years climbing the ranks at the ByteDance-owned platform. She started managing artist relations for Germany back in 2020, then ran music operations across the DACH region and Central and Eastern Europe before taking over all music...

Meta teamed up with iHeartMedia to drop a free VR concert experience featuring Coldplay's Music of the Spheres tour on Meta Horizon. The thing goes live at the end of December, and people can watch through the mobile app or Quest headsets. They shot it at Wembley Stadium using 15 cameras, and...

Universal Music Group UK has appointed Rebecca Allen to a brand-new Chief Artist and Strategy Officer position. She'll be connecting teams across UMG UK labels like Island-EMI, Polydor, Capitol UK, and Decca to help musicians at every career stage. Allen continues to run the Audience, Media &...

Artists in DSP put out Euclyd, a delay plugin that uses Euclidean rhythm math to space out echo taps in geometric patterns instead of just doing regular repeating delays. The company says the thing turns timing divisions into rhythmic structures that sound organic even though they come from...

Steinberg dropped VST Live 3 with video processing built right in, and the software handles multiple camera feeds while letting you automate scene switches to match your audio. The thing connects straight to OBS for streaming shows with multiple angles, and there's a new monitor mixer that...

Sonible pushed out smart:comp 3 with a new compression matrix thing that shows you a bunch of different compressor settings based on whatever audio you feed it instead of just spitting out one preset. The plugin lets you link multiple instances together for group processing across different...

Rhodes Music dropped two custom MK8 electric pianos built in Leeds, and they gave people about a month to order them before shutting down the window. The Glacial version has a see-through hood with some carved frost stuff on it, and everything comes in white with blue accents. The Monolith model...

Zimbabwean Sungura artist Nicholas Zakaria passed away, and his family broke the news through his social media accounts. People knew him as "Senior Lecturer", and he built a serious reputation in the genre over the years as both a vocalist and someone who helped younger musicians coming up. His...

SSL launched SpringVerb, an algorithmic reverb plugin that recreates the sound of vintage spring reverb hardware with way more tweaking options than the actual physical units ever had. The thing gives you three different spring tank models pulled from a tape delay box, a rack-mount reverb, and...

Strymon has just released the Fairfax Class A Output Stage, which marks the beginning of their new Series A analog pedal lineup and draws inspiration from a 1960s Garnet Amps Herzog tube drive that reportedly powered some classic rock tracks. The company designed a miniaturized tube amp circuit...

Native Instruments just shipped Absynth 6 after working with the synth's original designer Brian Clevinger, and the update brings MPE support plus an AI-powered preset browser that maps sounds on a 2D grid based on how they actually sound instead of making you scroll through endless lists. The...

The Audio Firm dropped Furnace, a saturation plugin that mixing engineer Sean J Vincent built with developer Vic Lewis from Fazertone after spending two years shopping his concept around to different companies. The processor gives you three analog-style saturation modes pulled from tape...