Downtown Music expands credit facility with Bank of America by $500 million

Downtown Music has made a significant expansion in its capacity to support the independent music community in partnership with Bank of America. Initially established in 2022 with $200 million of capacity to provide artists and rights-holders with advances in exchange for a short-term share of future royalties, the partnership now ...

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Satellite414 promotes Claire Coulton to head of press

Satellite414 has promoted Claire Coulton from senior publicist to head of press at the global entertainment PR agency. Coulton has joined Lottie Lander and Tom Mehrtens as a ...

Nirvana producer and Shellac frontman Steve Albini dies aged 61

Tributes have been paid to indie and alternative rock legend Steve Albini, who has died aged 61. Albini died of a heart attack, staff at his recording studio, ...

Dua Lipa approaching 40,000 sales for Radical Optimism

Dua Lipa could be on the way to her second No.1 album with Radical Optimism, which has accumulated 37,305 sales so far this week – 29,987 of ...

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