Music Business News: United States
News Based in London, Hitchman will continue to report to AWAL CEO Lonny Olinick News "Our mission is to speed up the music industry’s transition to creator independence," CEO Peter Sinclair says. News Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in Kobalt Music Group in 2022 News KISS has stopped touring, but the band will live on as avatars developed in partnership with Pophouse Entertainment News The law "oversteps state power and infringes on the Constitutional rights of users and businesses," a judge ruled. News Spotify is slashing around 17% of its global workforce Analysis News The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. Interviews The founder of Platoon (and AWAL, and a key architect of Graceland), Denzyl Feigelson, maps out his life and career in seven songs