Facebook has completed a series of deals for the right to show music videos, according to people familiar with the matter, vaulting the social network into a medium dominated by YouTube.
Vivendi SA’s music business has held up through virus lockdowns, limiting the blow to the French media group from a drop in advertising and publishing revenue.
Bandsintown teams up with Koreatown-based label Red Kloud Society to convene the Joy Ruckus Club, a streaming festival led by and celebrating young Asian American artists. The festival will stream on Bandsintown LIVE August 1 and 2, 2020.
In 2019, Vanity Fair called French Malian singer Aya Nakamura “the most influential French musician in the world”. And she’s continued in that vein ever since.
Yes, the raw feeling of live music is missing, but being online gave this year’s fest a better chance to emphasize women, artists of color, social change and Chicago.