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AI music startup Beatoven launches $50k fund… for human artists

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge January 6, 2023May 11, 2023

From the earliest days of the modern AI-music era, startups in this area have been keen to work with human artists.

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UK charity Youth Music launches two new funds with £8.9m

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge April 13, 2022May 11, 2023

One fund will offer grants of between £2k and £30k to projects tackling barriers to music access faced by children and young people.

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US music bodies lobby Congress for more Covid-19 relief

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge November 25, 2020May 11, 2023

A group of US music industry bodies are lobbying Congress for more relief amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and its effect on live music specifically. “The live music business – […]

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Livestreaming startup Sessions launches $75m marketing fund

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge November 20, 2020May 11, 2023

We profiled Sessions in September: it’s the livestreaming startup launched by former Pandora boss Tim Westergren, which has already seen some of its fledgling artists generating thousands of dollars from their performances. Now […]

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Instrumental launches a £10m fund for independent artists

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge November 19, 2020May 11, 2023

Last month, data-driven A&R startup Instrumental announced that Tencent Music and Tencent Holdings had acquired a minority stake in the British company. Now it’s launching a new initiative in its homeland […]

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Youth Music reveals recipients of its £2m incubator fund

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge November 5, 2020May 11, 2023

In July, British charity Youth Music announced a £2m incubator fund aimed at 18-25 year-olds in the UK, particularly from under-represented groups, with their music industry ambitions. Now it has revealed the […]

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BPI / Brit Awards donate £54k to Covid-19 Crew Relief Fund

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge October 29, 2020May 11, 2023

As Covid-19’s second wave sweeps Europe (and the first wave seemingly never ran out of steam in much of the US) we may soon have to revive our regular ‘positive […]

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Facebook’s new fund will make it an investor in startups

Avatar photo by Stuart Dredge June 12, 2020May 11, 2023

Facebook has long been an active acquirer of startups that it thinks could help its business (also: that it thinks might harm its business if left to their own devices). […]

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AIM Crisis Fund is extended to June and July

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UK independent trade body AIM launched its Crisis Fund in April to help out freelancers and self-employed contractors facing financial difficulties due to the global pandemic. They could apply if […]

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#TheShowMustBePaused latest: Sony Music, #ArtistsForBlackLives and more

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Something that came through very clearly about last week’s #TheShowMustBePaused day when music companies of all kinds paused their regular work to respond to the protests about racism and police […]

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MMF creates ReBuild support fund for managers and artists

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The Music Managers’ Forum in the UK has launched ReBuild – a  new support fund for managers and their artists affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. It is supported by donations […]

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#saveourvenues campaign takes 140 venues off ‘critical’ list

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Here’s some good news from the Covid-19 music relief front line: 140 grassroots venues in the UK have been removed from the ‘critical’ list compiled by the Music Venue Trust’s #saveourvenues campaign […]

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