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Depeche Mode To Warner Music Group: "Enjoy Our Silence"


Hits is reporting that Depeche Mode has severed ties with Warner Music Group because they felt "underserved" by the company's current regime; they join Madonna and Nickelback as acts who have fled from Warner's pastures over recent months. All of Depeche Mode's U.S. releases dating back to their debut, 1981's Speak & Spell, had come out on the Warner subsidiary Sire; outside of the States, their music is handled by the EMI-administered label Mute, a situation that doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon. No word on what their plans are for their next album or tour. [Hits / YouTube]

3:00 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,400 views, 10 comments

Latest by n/a: "Blasphemous Rumours. Lie To Me If You Want To, It Doesn't Matter. It's A Question of Time in a World Full of Nothing." -Warner Music Group Breathe the Freelove, boys. more »

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Are The Rolling Stones Going To Spin Off To Live Nation's Geezer-Friendly Stable?

Yesterday the UK's Observer claimed that the Stones were on the verge of walking away from their problem-riddled label EMI and heading over to Live Nation, which has recently gone on a 360-deal-signing binge that is funneling lots of cash toward big-name artists like Madonna and Jay-Z in exchange for the rights to all of their music-related income streams. Like both those artists, the Stones have been hurting on the record-sales side of things as of late, with their newer studio albums being met by ever-greater indifference from the public—but in a twist, the Live Nation-Stones deal reportedly includes the rights for Live Nation to market the band's lucrative back catalog. Stones flack Bernard Doherty told the press that reports of negotiations with Live Nation are false, but come on, what else is he going to say? More »

2:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
246 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm about to get a curly blond wig, a guitar and one of those shirts with blue jean patches and say I'm Peter Frampton. I bet I can a mad deal from Live Nation. Show me the way, baby. more »

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The Rolling Stones Flee EMI For Universal's Greener Pastures

Guy Hands' plans to slim down EMI are continuing to make artists used to the old rock-and-roll paradigm uncomfortable, and today the label experienced its highest-profile defection yet: According to the Financial Times, the Rolling Stones are putting out their next album, Shine A Light, via Universal, in part "because of their concerns about EMI's new management." The deal only covers the one album, so the Stones' lucrative back catalog will stay put. Which leads one to ask: Is the Stones' defection a bad thing for EMI? More »

6:49 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By mjohnston
697 views, 5 comments

Latest by MTS: @blackmailismylife: I'm really looking forward to their version of "Young Lions." more »