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threw a microphone at an audience member during a gig at Drai’s Beachclub in Vegas on Saturday. Though it was a retaliatory move prompted by said audience member throwing a drink at the rapper as she performed on stage.Although video footage of the incident seemed to show the audience member apologising as they were escorted out of the venue by security, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department subsequently confirmed that someone had filed a formal complaint after being “struck by an item that was thrown from the stage” at the show.It wasn’t clear if that complaint had been made by whoever threw the drink or whether someone else had been hit by the mic that Cardi B tossed into the audience.But either way, a statement from the LVMPD said: “On 30 Jul 2023, an individual came into an LVMPD police station to report a battery.

there were no grounds for pursuing criminal proceedings against Scott or a number of other people involved in planning and producing the festival.In terms of the lawsuits, last October a lawyer working for the family of one of the victims who died, Axel Acosta, confirmed that his client had settled their lawsuit. It was also reported at the time, and subsequently confirmed via court records, that the family of another festival-goer who died, sixteen year old Brianna Rodriguez, had likewise settled.Rolling Stone reported yesterday that the family of John Hilgert have also settled their legal action.

Aho Ssan – aka composer Niamké Désiré – is set to release his second solo album ‘Rhizomes’ this autumn. Commissioned by Nicolás Jaar’s Other People label, Austria’s Donaufestival and Paris recording studio INA GRM, the record features a whole host of guests, including Clipping, Mondkopf and Jaar himself.The album draws inspiration and takes its name from the philosophical theory of an endlessly-evolving structure with no beginning or end, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri.

APPOINTMENTSKobalt has promoted Kenny McGoff to UK Head Of Creative. He was previously Head Of A&R in the UK. “Kenny’s dynamic spirit and passion for music is infectious”, says Kobalt COO Jeannette Perez.

Cher has sold a “range of music assets” to the Iconic Artists Group, the company co-founded by veteran artist manager Irving Azoff.Needless to say, Cher is “THRILLED”. Though technically about her long-standing friendship with Azoff.

RELEASESJames Blunt will release new album ‘Who We Used To Be’ on 27 Oct. Out now is new single ‘Beside You’. “It’s a bit of a celebration”, he says of the song.

it was announced that the S Club tour would still go ahead, but that – following the change in circumstances – Spearritt had opted not to take part. Those shows are now due to take place this autumn and the five remaining members of the group released a new track last week.However, with that new track released, The Sun then reported that Spearritt never formally opted out of the reunion tour and was “blindsided” when her former bandmates made the announcement that they would be doing the shows without her.Talks then reportedly followed to try to get Spearritt on board for the shows after all but – says one of those pesky sources – by that point “bad blood” between her and the rest of the group made the chances of that happening rather slim.Says the source to The Sun: “Hannah is devastated.

Believe and its TuneCore subsidiary have surveyed nearly 1600 self-releasing artists about generative AI. Half of those surveyed said that they had a positive perception of artificial intelligence and would be willing to offer their music for the training of AI models.Around a third said they were interested in using AI as part of their music-making process, with a similar amount reckoning AI technologies could help them with their marketing and promotion.Commenting on the study, TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson says: “As AI continues to be a conversation topic across creative industries, we sought to engage directly with independent artists to determine their awareness of AI and how they’re most interested in engaging with it”.“TuneCore’s main priorities lie in the interests of our artists”, she adds, “so the responses to this survey will help us enable them to utilise AI on our platform with consent, control, transparency, and fair monetary compensation”.Of those surveyed, 35% said that they are interested in using AI in their creative process, while 31% said it could help with marketing and promotion around releases.Meanwhile, 18% said they might use AI technologies to create promotional content – including videos to post to TikTok and Instagram – while 16% said they were interested in how AI could help them more generally engage and develop their fanbases.In terms of allowing tech companies to use their creative output in order to train generative AI models, 50% showed a willingness to allow that to happen.

A police report has been filed by an audience member after an altercation occurred during a Cardi B show in Las Vegas this weekend.During a performance at Drai’s Beachclub on Saturday, an audience member threw a drink at the rapper. She then quickly retaliated by throwing her microphone at said audience member.Video footage of the event seems to show the person who threw the drink subsequently apologising before being escorted out of the venue by security.

The US district court for the Central District Of California last week published a judgement that provided a pretty extensive overview of what was a big legal debate in the US music industry for a time: whether online radio services like Pandora and Sirius were obliged to pay royalties when they played pre-1972 recordings.A lot of that debate centred on lawsuits pursued by the artists Flo & Eddie, who were members of the 1960s band The Turtles.In theory, the 2018 Music Modernization Act removed the ambiguities that those lawsuits sought to address. However, some technicalities remained in relation to Flo & Eddie’s litigation, meaning the lawsuit against Sirius rumbled on until 2021, and the Pandora dispute until last week.

APPOINTMENTSDeezer has appointed Florence Lao as its General Counsel. “Deezer is leading the way for the future of the music industry and I’m looking forward to contributing to continued success, together with the talented teams in France and across the globe”, she says. “The music landscape is changing quickly, with Deezer playing a key role for its partners, the industry, and fans alike.

Fast-rising punk band Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers have released the latest single from their upcoming debut album ‘I Love You’ – its opening track ‘I Used To Be Fun’. Despite its title, the track finds the band at their most fun, its jaunty pace belying the lyrical claims of the song.“‘I Used To Be Fun’ is about getting older and redefining the way you have fun”, say the band.

Travis Scott and his legal team have been dubbed “stunningly tone deaf” for criticising the timing of the publication of a police report about the Astroworld tragedy. The Houston Police Department made that lengthy document available on Friday, just as Scott released his new album ‘Utopia’, his first since the fatal crowd surge that occurred during his headline set at the 2021 edition of the festival he founded.On Friday, a representative for Scott told TMZ: “The timing of the Houston Police Department report’s release, coinciding with the launch of Travis Scott’s highly anticipated album, is anything but coincidental … it is outrageous that HPD has chosen to resort to tactics that attempt to discredit Travis and his team, casting doubt on how the unfortunate events at Astroworld actually transpired while deflecting blame from their own critical failures”.Responding to those remarks, a lawyer working for the family of one of those who died during the crowd surge, ten year old Ezra Blount, said in his own statement to TMZ: “For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many”.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured during the crowd surge at Astroworld 2021, which took place in Houston’s NRG Park.

If you’re yet to try Ed Sheeran’s Tingly Ted’s hot sauce, then this could be your month. The pop star has announced a partnership with the Honest Burgers restaurant chain to flavour up its hot beef.Yes, having launched his own sauce brand in February – and a TV ad campaign in June – Sheeran now has a restaurant partner to help push his condiments.Throughout August, anyone who walks in the doors of one of Honest Burgers’ 42 UK restaurants (or orders takeaway via Uber Eats) will be able to grab a special burger which, says a press release, will be “drenched” in Ed’s special sauce.

So this ‘Barbie’ film then, that’s a thing isn’t it? I ran some checks over the weekend and can definitely confirm, a thing it is. There’s a soundtrack too, of course, and that had quite an impact on the UK singles chart on Friday.In the week following the release of the film and ‘Barbie: The Album’, six tracks from the record were sufficiently streamed to appear in the UK Top 40, three of them in the top five.Billie Eilish’s ‘What Was I Made For’ is at number three, Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance The Night’ is at four, and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s ‘Barbie World’, complete with a little bit of Aqua, is at number five.That’s Aqua’s first appearance in the top five in 25 years, the Official Charts Company told us on Friday.

first launched by the rapper in 2018.

announced he was buying Parler, a rival social media platform known for being more tolerant of controversial right-wing opinions.That deal ultimately fell through, meanwhile Elon Musk bought himself Twitter and quickly relaxed its rules around offensive content. West was then allowed to tweet again.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including the debate surrounding comments made by The 1975’s frontman Matty Healy on stage in Malaysia regarding the country’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws, and the latest developments in the battle over who will run the Leadmill music venue in Sheffield.

Kylie Minogue has announced a Las Vegas residency, becoming the first artist to play the new Voltaire venue at the Venetian Resort in the city. The run of shows will follow the release of upcoming sixteenth studio album ‘Tension’.“The spirit of Voltaire is one of pure, authentic fun”, reckons Minogue.

RELEASESCalvin Harris and Sam Smith have teamed up for new track ‘Desire’.Jessie Ware has released a new version of her song ‘Freak Me Now’, featuring Roisin Murphy. “It is a huge honour to have the queen of disco, Róisín Murphy, on ‘Freak Me Now’”, says Ware. “I messaged her hoping she may be interested in featuring on the song and before I knew it she was in the studio.

Continuing their run of revamped versions of old hits, Busted have released a new recording of ‘Year 3000’ featuring none other than the Jonas Brothers. As you will no doubt remember, the Jonas Brothers released their own version of the song back in 2007, with which they scored their first US top 40 hit.“’Year 3000’ has been such a big part of [our] journey for the last 20 years”, say Busted.