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5 Questions with Daniel Miller, Founder of Mute Group of Companies
June 12, 2013 12:41 AM EDT 1 0 0 Simple question. What do Depeche Mode, Nick Cave, Moby, Richie Hawtin and Goldfrapp all have in common? Anyone who knows their “indie” music will know the answer: Daniel Miller. The British music man built a culture with his Mute brand, which he ...
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Daniel Miller Says Mute Group Positioned for Growth, Bolsters Exec Team
May 21, 2013 4:53 AM EDT Two-and-a half-years have passed since Daniel Miller and his Mute brand split from EMI and returned to the "independent" community. Now, the British exec is confident his Mute group of companies is positioned for growth, and he's ...
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Chart Moves: Nick Cave Scores Highest Charting Album, Eagles Fly Back Onto Billboard 200
February 28, 2013 8:17 PM EST It was a slow week on the Billboard 200, where not a single album debuted in the top 10. That said, Mumford & Sons' "Babel" held on to the No. 1 slot for a fifth non-consecutive week, making it the longest-running No. 1 album by ...
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Exclusive: Kobalt Launches Label Services Division, Preps New Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Release
January 22, 2013 6:35 PM EST 2 0 Not only did Kobalt sign a deal with Dave Grohl this week, the company is also formally introducing a new Label Services division that will handle digital and physical releases for independent artists as well as Kobalt clients. Though the division ...
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BMG Acquires Mute Records Catalog
December 21, 2012 6:15 PM EST In its second deal of the day, BMG Rights Management has acquired the Mute back catalog owned by EMI, which includes records released by artists like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Moby, Goldfrapp and Nick Cave. According to sources, BMG paid over 7 milli ...
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Rolling Stones Give Brooklyn What It Wants
December 09, 2012 3:15 AM EST 2 Hours/23 Songs/50 Years -- Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ron Fuggedabout Age and Rock Brooklyn for the First Time "It's great to be here in Brooklyn, in this great new arena," Mick Jagger said early in the Rolling Stones ' first-eve ...
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Dave Grohl to Host Sirius XM Radio Show
November 27, 2012 6:00 PM EST Sirius XM Radio announced today that Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will host an exclusive, limited-run show that will air on a number of SiriusXM music channels. "Dave Grohl Presents Sound City" will premiere this Thursday at 4:00 pm ET ...
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Dave Grohl to Host New Show on SiriusXM
November 27, 2012 3:08 PM EST Sirius XM Radio announced today that Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will host an exclusive, limited-run show that will air on a number of SiriusXM music channels. "Dave Grohl Presents Sound City" will premiere this Thursday at 4:00 pm ...
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Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Attempt at Record For O Music Awards, 'Great' Relationship With Warner Bros.
May 23, 2012 4:05 PM EDT When the Flaming Lips set out to break Jay-Z's world record for most live concerts in multiple cities in 24 hours as part of MTV's O Music Awards on June 27th , it will probably look like a scene straight out of "The Magical Mystery ...
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Jimmy Little, Iconic Indigenous Australian Singer, Dead at 75
April 03, 2012 7:25 AM EDT Jimmy Little, one of the first indigenous musicians to enjoy mainstream success in Australia, passed away yesterday, April 2, after a long battle with health problems. He was 75. Little, who suffered with type 2 diabetes and underwent a kidney tra ...
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Mute Launches Liberation Technologies Label
January 26, 2012 4:52 PM EST Mute records today announced the launch of Liberation Technologies, a new label focused on electronic music. The label will be headed by Patrick O'Neill and distributed worldwide by S T Holdings. The label's first release is 'Spring ...
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Grinderman Calling It Quits?
December 12, 2011 3:15 PM EST G rinderman , the alt-rock side project of Nick Cave , may have played its last show together for the foreseeable future. According to The Vine (via Pitchfork ), the quartet finished its set at the Meredith Music Festival in Australia on Sunday with ...
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Exclusive: Flaming Lips Plan Record Store Day Release
October 07, 2011 9:30 AM EDT Ardent Record Store Day supporters the Flaming Lips have started to plan next year's release. Wayne Coyne says he intends to create a compilation of tracks the Lips have done with other artists such as Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt and Prefuse 73 ...
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Exclusive: Flaming Lips Plan Record Store Day Release
October 06, 2011 3:43 PM EDT Ardent Record Store Day supporters the Flaming Lips have started to plan next year's release. Wayne Coyne says he intends to create a compilation of tracks the Lips have done with other artists such as Neon Indian, Lightning Bolt and Prefuse ...
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Billboard Bits: Lou Reed & Metallica Name Collaboration, 'Glee Project' Names Two Winners
August 22, 2011 6:45 PM EDT Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip. Lou Reed & Metallica Name Forthcoming Collaboration This fall's hotly anticipated mash-up of heavy metal gods Metallica and former Velvet Underground kingpin/acc ...
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Billboard Bits: Lil Wayne Won't Work With Bieber, Rihanna Chained In 2nd 'S&M' Lawsuit
June 24, 2011 7:30 PM EDT Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip. Lil Wayne Won't Work With Justin Bieber In his July/August XXL cover story, Lil Wayne said that despite persistent requests from Bieber, he won't work with him ...
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Neko Case, Nick Cave Cover the Zombies For 'True Blood' Season Premiere
May 04, 2011 3:43 PM EDT Nick Cave and Neko Case have recorded a cover of the Zombie's "She's Not There" for the debut episode of season four of "True Blood. Cave and Case, who shared concert bills about a decade ago, were brought together for the ...
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Wilco Leaves Nonesuch Records, Starts Own Label
January 27, 2011 8:52 AM EST W ilco , the Chicago-based experimental rock band led by Jeff Tweedy, has announced they are leaving their long-time label Nonesuch Records to start their own record company, dBpm Records. The band's longtime manager, Tony Margherita, will run ...
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Billboard Bits: Beastie Boys Make 'Fight' Film, Warped Tour Bands Announced
December 08, 2010 6:29 PM EST Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip. Beastie Boys Making Short Film With Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Elijah Wood Adam "MCA" Yauch of the Beastie Boys , who continues to battle cancer, will write and ...
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Mute Goes Indie Again, EMI Keeps Depeche Mode
September 22, 2010 12:00 AM EDT EMI Music and Mute found Daniel Miller have reached an agreement over the future of the label, which will once again be independent - albeit with a label services deal with EMI, who will also take a minority stake. The label specializing in altern ...
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Billboard Bits: Gaga Cops To Cocaine Use, T.I. Gets Married
August 02, 2010 6:35 PM EDT Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip. Lady Gaga Dabbles in Cocaine, Not Sex In the cover story for Vanity Fair's September issue, Lady Gaga admits that she occasionally does cocaine. The singer says that ...
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Billboard Bits: Hendrix, Metallica, Soft Pack, Depeche Mode And More
January 28, 2010 6:26 PM EST Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip every afternoon. A previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix song made its internet debut on Spinner . "Valleys of Neptune" is the first song off the new collection of ...
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Johnny Cash Releasing Another Posthumous Album
January 14, 2010 7:10 AM EST More than six years after his death, Johnny Cash will return to record stores next month with a new album featuring one of the last songs the country legend ever wrote. "American VI: Ain't No Grave," billed as the final installment in ...
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Arctic Monkeys / December 11, 2009 / New York City (Terminal 5)
December 14, 2009 8:15 PM EST "Christmas" came early to fans that packed into New York's Terminal 5 for Arctic Monkey 's sold out show Friday night (Dec. 11). During the breakdown of "Fluorescent Adolescent," one of the breezier songs from the night ...
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Fever Ray / September 28, 2009 / New York (Webster Hall)
September 30, 2009 4:01 PM EDT Anyone who's followed masked-marauding electro-pop duo the Knife knows that Swedish singer Karin Dreijer Andersson isn't really big on recognition. When she took the stage with her new project, Fever Ray , at Webster Hall Tuesday night (Se ...
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Dr. Dog Signs With Anti-, Announces Tour
July 29, 2009 12:21 PM EDT Philadelphia psych-rock quintet Dr. Dog has signed with Anti- Records, and plans to release a new LP in early 2010, the label announced today. The band also announced 28 North American tour dates, beginning July 31 in Portland, Ore. and ending Oct. ...
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ARIA To Honor Dingoes, Mental As Anything
July 20, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Alternative Australian rock acts Mental As Anything and the Dingoes, indigenous troubadour Kev Carmody, and pop singers Little Pattie and John Paul Young are to inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame during an Aug. 27 ceremony at Melbourne's For ...
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Music Sales Corp. To Serve As Mute Songs N.A. Sub-Publisher
May 20, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Music Sales Corporation will serve as the North American sub-publisher for London-based Mute Song. The deal will add to New York-based Music Sales Corporation’s extensive catalog, including songs by such artists and songwriters as Nick Cave and th ...
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Kylie Minogue Dreams Of Movie Roles, Not U.S. Success
May 11, 2009 8:25 AM EDT Pop singer Kylie Minogue is not bothered that the music stardom she enjoys in Britain and Australia has eluded her in the United States but says she fantasizes about a credible film career. Minogue, 40, who got her start more than 20 years ago as an ...
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Yoko Ono, Roots To Play London's Meltdown Festival
April 28, 2009 1:09 PM EDT The first acts confirmed for London's Meltdown Festival, which runs June 13 to June 21 at the Southbank Centre, include Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band, Sean Lennon, Cornelius, Patti Smith, Robert Wyatt, Yo La Tengo, Baaba Maal and Moby. The Roots wi ...
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Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis Lined Up for Roskilde
April 17, 2009 3:22 PM EDT Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Lil Wayne and Coldplay are set to headline the 39th annual Roskilde Festival, to be held July 2-5 outside of Copenhagen, Denmark. Additional artists slated to perform at the seven-stage event, which is the longest ...
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Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys Top Readings And Leeds Lineups
March 31, 2009 8:30 AM EDT Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Kings of Leon have been confirmed as the headline acts at the U.K.'s twinned Reading and Leeds Festivals. The festivals will held at Little Johns Farm, Reading and Bramham Park, Leeds, over England's August Ba ...
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Chart Beat- "Slumdog Millionaire," American Idol, Flex
March 26, 2009 1:09 PM EDT Chart Beat now offers a sneak peak at chart action with a first-look edition on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, when all of our online charts are refreshed with the latest data, Chart Beat appears as always in its full form, spotlighting achievements from ...
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Pet Shop Boys Taking 'High Tech' Show On The Road
March 24, 2009 9:35 AM EDT Pet Shop Boys will play European festivals this summer as part of the campaign for their 10th album "Yes" (Parlophone), including a headlining appearance at Denmark's Roskilde Festival according to keyboard player Chris Lowe. It was a ...
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Cave Recruits Bad Seed
February 18, 2009 12:00 AM EST Ed Kuepper has slotted into the line-up of Nick Cave's band the Bad Seeds, taking the guitar position left vacant by Mick Harvey (Billboard.biz, Jan. 22). Kuepper, a founding member of Australian punk group the Saints and post-punk outfit Lau ...
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Faithfull Surrounded By Stars On New Album
January 22, 2009 5:08 PM EST Veteran vocalist Marianne Faithfull is surrounded by top-shelf collaborators on the album "Easy Come, Easy Go," due March 17 from Decca. The Hal Willner-produced project, his first full album with Faithfull since 1987, features covers of M ...
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Bad Seeds Founder Exits
January 22, 2009 12:00 AM EST Mick Harvey is splitting with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds after a quarter of a century. Multi-instrumental Harvey, one of the founders of the Australian alternative rock ensemble, says he is leaving for a "variety of personal and professional ...
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Nick Cave To Present 2008 Turner Prize
October 22, 2008 12:00 AM EDT U.K.-based alternative rock artist Nick Cave -- recent winner of the 2008 ARIA Award for best male artist (Billboard.biz, Oct. 20) -- will present the 2008 Turner Prize at the annual award ceremony, held at Tate Britain on Dec. 1. The presentation ...
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All Tomorrow's Parties Heads To Australia
October 01, 2008 12:00 AM EDT All Tomorrow's Parties will launch its first Australian events in January. Native sons Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will curate and perform at the shows, which run from Jan. 8-19 at a variety of venues All Tomorrow's Parties will launch its ...
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Nick Cave To Pen Second Novel
September 29, 2008 12:00 AM EDT Nearly 20 years since his debut novel, Nick Cave will put pen to paper for a second work of fiction, "The Death of Bunny Munro." Canongate has acquired world rights for the book, due in September 2009 Nearly 20 years since his debut novel, ...
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Alberta Cross
April 23, 2008 12:00 AM EDT Last year, British roots-rock outfit Alberta Cross released a seven-song EP, "The Thief and the Heartbreaker," via Geffen in the United States and Fiction in the United Kingdom to much critical succes Last year, British roots-rock outfit A ...
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Radiohead Unveils Social Network
April 09, 2008 12:00 AM EDT Following in the footsteps of 50 Cent, Kylie Minogue and several other artists of late, Radiohead launched its own social network as part of its waste-central.com Web site. Fans can share photos, get touring information and watch videos of not onl ...
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Previewing The Week's Top New Releases
April 06, 2008 12:00 AM EDT U.K. phenom Leona Lewis scores big in the States ahead of the release of her debut album, Ray J precedes his next set with a "sexy" single and P.O.D. reunites to rock with an old chum in this week's H A new album from Kim Deal's ...
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Honorary Degree For Rocker Cave
March 28, 2008 12:00 AM EDT The correct title is now Dr. Cave. Alternative-rock icon Nick Cave has been presented with an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Monash University in his longtime hometown of Melbourne. The U.K.-based, Australian-bred musician, novelist, actor ...
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Barry Adamson Goes Pop With 'Cat'
March 14, 2008 12:00 AM EDT Known for his work with David Lynch films and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, Barry Adamson will try to shake the "noir" sound he's known for this spring with his eighth album "Back to the Cat." The ten song s Known for his work ...
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Newcomer Duffy Sweeps U.K. Charts
March 10, 2008 12:00 AM EDT A&M/Universal's Welsh vocalist Duffy added another dimension to her hugely successful U.K. launch yesterday (March 9), as her debut album, "Rockferry," opened at No. 1, while the single "Mercy" ba A&M/Universal' ...
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Former Warner UK Chair Phillips On The Edge
November 02, 2007 12:00 AM EDT Former Warner Music U.K. chairman Nick Phillips has been named as a board member at London-based entertainment industry investment house the Edge Group. Phillips has worked in the industry for 30 years, becoming Warner chairman in 1999. He left th ...
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Country Legend Porter Wagoner Dies At 80
October 29, 2007 12:00 AM EDT Country legend Porter Wagoner died yesterday (Oct. 28) in Nashville, just a few weeks after being hospitalized with lung cancer. Wagoner was known for a string of country hits in the '60s, perennial a Country legend Porter Wagoner died yesterda ...
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ARIA To Induct Cave Into Hall Of Fame
October 17, 2007 12:00 AM EDT Alternative rock veteran Nick Cave will be inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame at this year's Motorola ARIA awards, set for Oct. 28 at Acer Stadium in Sydney. Melbourne-born Cave emerged in the punk ...
