GONIFF WITH THE WIND: “The Billionaire’s Playlist,” an expansive piece in the 1/20 issue of The New Yorker, chronicles the adventures of Warner Music Group owner Len Blavatnik from Russia’s “aluminum wars” to the U.S. media market. In addition to being a startling glimpse into the kleptocracy that is Putin’s Mother Russia, Connie Bruck’s sprawling article offers some hair-raising details about former Warner exec Lyor Cohen. Among the standouts: Lyor’s campaigning for the job of then-Chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who had brought him into WMG in the first place (“not long after the public embarrassment of [Cohen’s] fraud trial”), prompting the Seagram scion to moan, “Lyor just threw me under the bus.” (1/16p)
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/28a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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