Foundational pieces, old friends in new gigs, and a quick victory lap.

Update: 2025-11-10

Description

New gigs for old friends!

Names in Today's Pod:
Jeff Price
Word Collections
Ed Christman
Metallica
Rolling Stone
Dan Weiner
Dylan Smith
Warner Music
Leda Chang
Island Records
Imran Majid
Justin Eshak
Spotify
Meta
Happy Birthdays:
Mike Spinella
Alisha Outridge
Scott Greer
Mauro DeCeglie
Robin Frank

LINKS

Jeff Price is important
https://www.billboard.com/pro/metallica-exec-fight-band-songwriter-royalties/
How management and Labels get along these day
https://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/near-truths/near-truths-zach-bryan-reup-taylor-swift-beyonce-justin-bieber-olivia-rodrigo-dua-lipa-uk-2025-11-03
Meta Engineers trained their AI replacements
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/meta-plans-to-cut-600-jobs-at-ai-superintelligence-labs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Sonia Chien explains indie, sorta
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/07/what-does-indie-music-even-mean-in-2025/
RRHOF If you care
https://www.billboard.com/lists/rock-roll-hall-fame-induction-2025-ceremony-recap-moments/
Grammy Noms in general...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/arts/music/grammy-awards-nominations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
And by Label...
https://www.billboard.com/pro/2026-grammy-nominations-by-label-interscope-island-lead/
We were right about Spotify Price Targets
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/07/spotify-stock-targets-ease/
Congrats to old friends in new gigs
https://www.billboard.com/lists/warner-music-orchard-boosey-hawkes-rolling-stone-music-jobs/janis-susskind-steven-lankenau-boosey-hawkes/
Job Of the Week
https://www.zrgpartners.com/jobboard/1130

RoyFi
Https://www.royfi.com
Hangout.FM
Hangout.fm

Comments

In Channel

Suno goes legit, don't pollute my ragebait and ByteDance's 480 Queeners.

2025-11-2610:00

AI pronouns, iHeart doesn't AI and AI never sleeps, revisited.

2025-11-2507:40

Toxic Earworms, Crossing the Atlantic, and Fire the intern.

2025-11-2406:44

Expanded rights, AI, floodgates and sharks versus thieves and pimps.

2025-11-2108:01

A bad week for the resellers AI news overflows. And if the deplorable fits, wear it.

2025-11-2010:14

Wabi-Sabi, monopolies, ensh*#ification and de-ensh*#ification.

2025-11-1909:27

Tracy Gardner speaks, classic tech reboots, and does the world need another...?

2025-11-1807:29

More honey crullers, double bubble, and other "sweet" things.

2025-11-1708:24

More C-suite action, Don't Sleep On Gaming: Chapter Infinity, and All Hands is on deck.

2025-11-1408:50

Loyal service rewarded, music is better than sex, and AI vampires from actual Transylvania.

2025-11-1310:24

Ty-LA Ty-LER, the lowest form of human life, and maybe content IS king.

2025-11-1207:51

Foundational pieces, old friends in new gigs, and a quick victory lap.

2025-11-1008:12

Honey Crullers, CISAC's 2024 report, and startups are hard.

2025-11-0709:04

The times are a changin', but publishing is forever. What is a Jambot? and, payola again?

2025-11-0610:27

Layoff porn, Spotify's Q3 Meh, and "who are you and why are you here?"

2025-11-0509:58

The AI floodgates open; to product or not to product? and Xania's pronouns.

2025-11-0406:20

Tossing up three pointers, LA is the place to be and introducing the job of the week.

2025-11-0308:17

Trick or treat, AI's neat, but the artists gotta eat.

2025-10-3107:05

Udio goes legit. What say you, Benji? And is rap the new rock... revisited.

2025-10-3008:07

Pedagogues and demagogues, problematic artists go viral and really from a Wall-E future?

2025-10-2907:36

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Foundational pieces, old friends in new gigs, and a quick victory lap.

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Foundational pieces, old friends in new gigs, and a quick victory lap.