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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cowardly behavior from Ed Sheeran, his team, the venues, and the AEG promoter.

UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Today UMAW officially launches our Raise the Bar campaign, our effort to establish baseline standards for artist treatment. We call on all venues to commit to these four standards: 1. No Merch Cuts 2. No Pay to Play 3. No Door Polling 4. Contract Transparency

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Deezer has debuted an AI music detector that works across all DSPs, not just theirs. Via @musically.com

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We need to hold the major labels and their AI partners accountable!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Spotify’s new “fix” for the flood of AI songs taking over the platform is a verification badge for human artists. This badge is ONLY available to artists with over 10,000 monthly listeners for three consecutive months.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Spotify has released a Wrapped-style look back at your listening history in honor of their 20th anniversary of paying their artists poverty wages

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

weareumaw.org/membership

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

AI slop-makers are uploading staggering amounts of AI-generated songs to streaming services. This dilutes the royalty pool, increases fraud and impersonation, and harms real human artists. We need REAL protections against AI!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

MSG has been surveilling its attendees in “excessive and intrusive ways” since 2018. This panopticon-level surveillance endangers fans, artists, and music workers alike— especially when that surveillance is targeted. Via Them

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Statement from UMAW in @pitchfork.com as Ticketmaster-Live Nation is found to be an illegal monopoly

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What a fucking nightmare. The current music industry only serves the billionaires and tech bros. Musicians and music workers can take back the power from these massive corporations if we ORGANIZE!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. We are indebted to the trans musicians & music workers who have fought for trans rights for years, and who have revolutionized and expanded the music industry. Bring a trans artist on tour! Hire a trans music worker! Support your trans peers!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Suno is producing 7M AI songs per day. Streaming services are being flooded with AI slop, diluting the revenue pool and further decreasing payouts for artists. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act! The new, additional LWMA royalty would only be available to human musicians.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Mikey Shulman wants producers and songwriters to use his exploitative AI tools so badly that he’s trying to convince everyone they already are. Resist AI in music! Don’t give in to these hacks!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Do AI music companies next!!!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Lorde has exited her 17-year long contract with Universal. A 12-year-old child should not have to decide if she wants to enter into a multi-decade record contract, especially with a major label known for predatory deals.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We need IMMEDIATE PROTECTIONS for artists against AI!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

TONIGHT! See you at Hole in the Wall at 8pm for the Fair Pay and No Warmongers at SXSW show 💪

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

TODAY! See you at 11am 💪

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Joey La Neve DeFrancesco @joeyquits.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Spotify's new CEO Gustav Söderström is giving a keynote address at SXSW tomorrow. @umaw.bsky.social will be holding a picket outside.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.

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Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast

Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that “these p...

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Every year, Spotify releases “Loud and Clear” — coincidentally on the anniversary of when UMAW delivered our demands to their door. They come up with excuses, ignoring the reality that Spotify exploits musicians! The majority of artists are paid poverty wages. That must change.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thrilled to add HIKES to the UMAW SXSW protest show this year! RSVP link in bio - the show is free but RSVP is required. MARCH 15th at Hole in the Wall! See you there! 💪❤️

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

UMAW DISRUPTS SXSW 2026 💪

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook. The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly. But Trump just let them settle out of court. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

reuters.com

Live Nation settles US antitrust case

Live Nation Entertainment ‌has reached a proposed ⁠settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, according to ‌a ⁠court hearing on Monday.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Live Nation and Ticketmaster have settled with the DOJ. The trial was set for this week. This settlement allows the live music monopoly to continue. This cowardly and disappointing outcome only emphasizes the need for artists and music workers to build REAL power.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Apple Music has introduced AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare songs and albums as AI. We need, at the absolute minimum, tags on ALL AI music letting listeners know they’re hearing inhuman slop.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

sticker designs for our SXSW counter-programming this year — “war profiteers out of music” now also in Spotify green. come find us in Austin and get free stickers and some UMAW literature 💪 more information soon on where we’ll be and when!

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Annual reminder that the Penskes love Trump just as much as they love exploiting musicians

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

UMAW joins workers & organizations across the US in demanding an immediate end to the US-Israel war on Iran! Go out to the demonstrations happening across the country today, call your reps and demand that they support a resolution to end the war - take action however you can.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sign onto the letter at letcubalive.info !

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Spotify unveiling a Bluetooth-enabled urn (a collaboration with Liquid Death) after killing the musician middle class through the devaluation of music via streaming is…… a little on the nose

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

BDS calls for consumer [note: consumer, not artist] boycott of Spotify until the company meets demands to adopt an intersectional ethical programming, advertising, sponsorship, and partnership policy, and end all business with Partner Communications.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Via @pastemagazine.bsky.social : inside Jeffrey Epstein’s conversations around the music industry as a pipeline to access to young women.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Jonny… you can’t be “above political concerns” while artwashing a genocide. Palestinians have called for a boycott of Radiohead and Jonny Greenwood concerts, after Jonny crossed the BDS picket line during the genocide and performed in Tel Aviv in May 2024 and March 2025.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Spotify’s new co-CEO Gustav Söderström claims that they have “pretty much the whole industry” behind their use of AI. Artists do NOT want AI on streaming services. Spotify is purposefully ignoring the most important voice: the artists who make streaming services possible.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It’s time to break up Ticketmaster-Live Nation! 💪

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Google just added Lyria, an AI music tool, to Gemini. There is no information on whether Lyria was trained on copyrighted music without a license. When asked, a Google rep evaded the question. AI EXPLOITS MUSICIANS.

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Virgin Records CEO Richard Branson is in the Epstein files. Paste compiled a full timeline of their relationship. Via @pastemagazine.bsky.social

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Casey Wasserman is selling Wasserman talent agency after he was damningly exposed in the Epstein files. Musicians have been speaking out against Wasserman since the story broke, including artists like Chappell Roan leaving the agency. Image via @rollingstone.com

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Casey Wasserman, the owner of Wasserman talent agency who was recently exposed in the Epstein files, remains the head of the 2028 Olympics while the artists on his agency bear the brunt of his actions. This is disgraceful.

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