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For years, private equity firms have snatched up the catalogues of music's biggest names. Now they're after independent labels.

In April, a jury found Live Nation liable for monopolizing the concert industry. The basic story you’ve probably heard is that Live Nation built its monopoly by buying competitors and linking its venu...

A new biography of Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, star of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, with cover art by Drew Friedman.

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

A veteran culture writer surveys the radically transforming journalistic ecosystem.

The Western Canadian university surveyed 263 Canadian musicians about their thoughts on AI’s rampant rise and the use of streaming services as an artistic tool.

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

Princeton Review’s latest “Best College Radio Stations” list has been released, bringing attention to another interesting mix of college radio stations from across the United States. Appearing within ...

The Southern Questions series features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. This week we welcome Ruth First's Th...

Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation

The Homepage for the Stelton Modern School

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Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.

She managed artists like Labelle and Dusty Springfield, and helped run the influential 1960s British TV showcase “Ready Steady Go!”

Tracing the history of the underground's most unique family band.

The Internet We Could Have Had, What happened to the internet we could have had? Can we remember a future that did not come to pass? The Internet We Could Have Had takes up the challenge, revisiting t...

Cassidy Shultz, aka DJ hippiestank, KVRX's public relations director. It’s often said that football is the “front porch” of a University, the thing that everybody sees and knows, both on campus and ac...

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

This year, streaming services are tackling the problem of AI-generated music. In January, Bandcamp announced they were banning it; in March, Apple Music introduced AI transparency tags. Today, Tidal r...