Additional speakers and a new keynote session have been revealed for South by Southwest 2023.
Event organizers announced Tuesday that featured speakers for the 37th edition of the annual conference spotlighting the convergence of technology and the film and music industries include Eric André, Blxst, Josh D’Amaro, Tommy Dorfman, Ashley Flowers, Gottmik, Nick Jonas, Martin Luther King III, Damon Lindelof, Eva Longoria, Alexis Ohanian, Maya Penn, Austin Russell, RZA, Dan Schulman, Simran Jeet Singh, Cheryl Strayed, Jen Wong and more.
‘Unfold The Universe: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope’ was also named as a new keynote session at SXSW. It will include members of the James Webb Space Telescope team and feature a never-before-seen image.
“We are honored to host a Keynote Session featuring members of the James Webb Space Telescope team,” said Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer and co-president. “They join an impressive group of Featured Speakers who have consistently strived...
Event organizers announced Tuesday that featured speakers for the 37th edition of the annual conference spotlighting the convergence of technology and the film and music industries include Eric André, Blxst, Josh D’Amaro, Tommy Dorfman, Ashley Flowers, Gottmik, Nick Jonas, Martin Luther King III, Damon Lindelof, Eva Longoria, Alexis Ohanian, Maya Penn, Austin Russell, RZA, Dan Schulman, Simran Jeet Singh, Cheryl Strayed, Jen Wong and more.
‘Unfold The Universe: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope’ was also named as a new keynote session at SXSW. It will include members of the James Webb Space Telescope team and feature a never-before-seen image.
“We are honored to host a Keynote Session featuring members of the James Webb Space Telescope team,” said Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer and co-president. “They join an impressive group of Featured Speakers who have consistently strived...
- 1/10/2023
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has confirmed its initial Featured Speakers for the 37th edition of its annual Conference. SXSW 2023 will take place March 10 – 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
“At SXSW, our goal is to always host a range of speakers who represent the full spectrum of the creative industries that converge in Austin every March,” Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “Our initial group of Featured Speakers, which includes futurists like Amy Webb, lifelong activists and advocates such as Alexandra Reeve Givens and Cecile Richards, and athletic titan turned business leader Allyson Felix, marks a significant first step towards a phenomenal SXSW 2023.”
The SXSW Conference is organized into 25 programming tracks presented in a variety of session formats. The tracks for 2023 include 2050, Advertising & Brand Experience, Cannabis, Civic Engagement, Climate Change, Creating Film & Episodics, Culture, Design, Energy, Film & TV Industry, Food, Game Industry, Health & MedTech, Markets & Economies, Media Industry,...
“At SXSW, our goal is to always host a range of speakers who represent the full spectrum of the creative industries that converge in Austin every March,” Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “Our initial group of Featured Speakers, which includes futurists like Amy Webb, lifelong activists and advocates such as Alexandra Reeve Givens and Cecile Richards, and athletic titan turned business leader Allyson Felix, marks a significant first step towards a phenomenal SXSW 2023.”
The SXSW Conference is organized into 25 programming tracks presented in a variety of session formats. The tracks for 2023 include 2050, Advertising & Brand Experience, Cannabis, Civic Engagement, Climate Change, Creating Film & Episodics, Culture, Design, Energy, Film & TV Industry, Food, Game Industry, Health & MedTech, Markets & Economies, Media Industry,...
- 8/30/2022
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
David Bowie’s catalog has been acquired by Warner Chappell Music, extending a recent string of high-profile music rights deals.
Financial terms were not officially disclosed, but press reports pegged the value at more than $250 million. The rise of streaming as an economic engine, along with the mushrooming array of content into which music can be incorporated, has pushed catalog prices higher. Recent deals have been sewn up by Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and the estate of James Brown, among many other artists.
This agreement follows one reached last year between Warner Music Group (parent of Warner Chappell) and the Bowie estate. Under that 2021 deal, Warner Music has licensed worldwide rights to Bowie’s recorded music catalog from 1968.
The global rights deal covers the entire body of work of Bowie, who died of liver cancer in 2016. The catalog includes songs like “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Starman,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,...
Financial terms were not officially disclosed, but press reports pegged the value at more than $250 million. The rise of streaming as an economic engine, along with the mushrooming array of content into which music can be incorporated, has pushed catalog prices higher. Recent deals have been sewn up by Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and the estate of James Brown, among many other artists.
This agreement follows one reached last year between Warner Music Group (parent of Warner Chappell) and the Bowie estate. Under that 2021 deal, Warner Music has licensed worldwide rights to Bowie’s recorded music catalog from 1968.
The global rights deal covers the entire body of work of Bowie, who died of liver cancer in 2016. The catalog includes songs like “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” “Starman,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,...
- 1/3/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Shani Gonzales, the new head of international A&r for Warner Chappell, is an American who makes sure Americans hear music from outside America.
Gonzales has form in this area: Before joining Warner Chappell last year, she spent nearly six years at rival BMG, where she rose to co-head of A&r for the U.K. and U.S. and hooked up emerging talent with superstars — for example, British writer-producer P2J and Team Beyoncé. P2J ended up co-producing multiple tracks on Bey’s Lion King: The Gift album...
Gonzales has form in this area: Before joining Warner Chappell last year, she spent nearly six years at rival BMG, where she rose to co-head of A&r for the U.K. and U.S. and hooked up emerging talent with superstars — for example, British writer-producer P2J and Team Beyoncé. P2J ended up co-producing multiple tracks on Bey’s Lion King: The Gift album...
- 10/29/2020
- by Tim Ingham
- Rollingstone.com
Music publishing has never been more commercially vibrant — from some perspectives, at least.
Institutional investors are increasingly viewing evergreen music copyrights as hot property. Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs Fund is paying notoriously high multiples to acquire songwriter and publishing catalogs, and it hit an all-time share price high in mid-September. As recently covered on Rolling Stone, Concord has spent over $100 million not once but twice this year to acquire publishing related assets (Pulse Music Group and the Imagine Dragons catalog, respectively) — and it predicts billions of Wall Street dollars are...
Institutional investors are increasingly viewing evergreen music copyrights as hot property. Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs Fund is paying notoriously high multiples to acquire songwriter and publishing catalogs, and it hit an all-time share price high in mid-September. As recently covered on Rolling Stone, Concord has spent over $100 million not once but twice this year to acquire publishing related assets (Pulse Music Group and the Imagine Dragons catalog, respectively) — and it predicts billions of Wall Street dollars are...
- 10/6/2020
- by Tim Ingham
- Rollingstone.com
British executives are flying high in the global music business. The leaders of Universal Music Group (Sir Lucian Grainge) and Sony Music Group (Rob Stringer) are both Brits, as is the global head of recorded music at Warner Music Group (Max Lousada). Elsewhere — global A&r at Kobalt is run by a Brit (Sas Metcalfe), while the CEO of Warner Chappell, Guy Moot, is also Blighty-born. The list goes on: Steve Barnet (CEO & chairman, Capitol Music Group), Peter Edge (CEO, RCA), and Darcus Beese (President, Island Records) … all Brits.
And...
And...
- 6/23/2020
- by Tim Ingham
- Rollingstone.com
“Every single week of quarantine, I’ve executed a contract by signing it on my phone,” says Sony/Atv Nashville CEO Rusty Gaston. His sentiment is echoed by many other music publishers — which, even as their label counterparts slow down on new signings, are ramping up deals.
Labels are feeling the need to be protective of their resources during this uncertain and unprecedented period, and developing a new artist can appear quite risky given the current (and rather desolate) landscape. But veteran artists who are already signed need more material...
Labels are feeling the need to be protective of their resources during this uncertain and unprecedented period, and developing a new artist can appear quite risky given the current (and rather desolate) landscape. But veteran artists who are already signed need more material...
- 5/13/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
Ricky Reed, a producer behind four songs on Lizzo’s Grammy-winning Cuz I Love You album — six, if you’re looking at the deluxe version, which includes megahit “Truth Hurts” — is imploring musicians, songwriters, producers, artists, and executives to press pause on songwriting sessions, meetings and shows. And “no going to packed bars,” Reed added in his Medium post this week. “No eating at restaurants. No brunch. (In South Korea one person attended church and a buffet lunch and was responsible for infecting 1,000 people! Again, no brunch!).”
Artists who have...
Artists who have...
- 3/16/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
Former Sony Entertainment chief Michael Lynton is joining the Warner Music board of directors as non-executive chairman, a source close to the situation confirmed to Variety. The news was first reported by Music Business Worldwide.
The decision was ratified at a board meeting before during Grammy week, the source said; an official announcement is expected soon, once the 8K and other details are finalized.
Lynton, who is currently chairman of Snap, is one of 11 board members including Access Industries founder and Wmg owner Len Blavatnik, Wmg CEO Steve Cooper, and the company’s CEO of recorded music Max Lousada, along with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner, economist Noreena Hertz. He will serve in a non-executive role and his participation is expected to be advisory.
Wmg is coming off of a strong 2018, in which its revenue exceeded $4 billion for the first time in company history, it announced in its earnings report in December.
The decision was ratified at a board meeting before during Grammy week, the source said; an official announcement is expected soon, once the 8K and other details are finalized.
Lynton, who is currently chairman of Snap, is one of 11 board members including Access Industries founder and Wmg owner Len Blavatnik, Wmg CEO Steve Cooper, and the company’s CEO of recorded music Max Lousada, along with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner, economist Noreena Hertz. He will serve in a non-executive role and his participation is expected to be advisory.
Wmg is coming off of a strong 2018, in which its revenue exceeded $4 billion for the first time in company history, it announced in its earnings report in December.
- 2/12/2019
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
In just under two weeks, the people making the biggest decisions in the modern music business will, inevitably, feel their blood pressure rise.
At a Los Angeles location, a few days before Grammy night, Billboard will reveal its annual Power 100 — a countdown of “the most influential individuals in the music industry.” The list, as ever, will cause a ripple of music-biz perturbation, not least for its inevitable domination by white men of a certain age.
The fallout from the Power 100 won’t end there, either: Status-hungry execs will be left...
At a Los Angeles location, a few days before Grammy night, Billboard will reveal its annual Power 100 — a countdown of “the most influential individuals in the music industry.” The list, as ever, will cause a ripple of music-biz perturbation, not least for its inevitable domination by white men of a certain age.
The fallout from the Power 100 won’t end there, either: Status-hungry execs will be left...
- 1/25/2019
- by Tim Ingham
- Rollingstone.com
Sony/Atv Music Publishing has signed two music legends to its Neighboring Rights division with deals to represent the recording catalogues of Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen, the company announced today.
Songwriter/producer Jamie Scott, UK rappers Big Shaq and Kojo Funds, British musician/producer Elderbrook and veteran producer Bob Ezrin are among the other acts who have also newly signed to the UK-based operation. They are now part of a Neighbouring Rights roster tjhat includes The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams, Mark Ronson, Sting, Snoop Dogg, French Montana, Miguel, Nile Rodgers, Hans Zimmer and the estate of Lou Reed.
Neighboring Rights are rights related to the sound recording of a musical work and are due to the artists and musicians featured whenever there is a commercial exploitation of it such as through radio or TV airplay.
Sony/Atv UK Managing Director and President, Worldwide Creative Guy Moot said: “We continue to...
Songwriter/producer Jamie Scott, UK rappers Big Shaq and Kojo Funds, British musician/producer Elderbrook and veteran producer Bob Ezrin are among the other acts who have also newly signed to the UK-based operation. They are now part of a Neighbouring Rights roster tjhat includes The Weeknd, Pharrell Williams, Mark Ronson, Sting, Snoop Dogg, French Montana, Miguel, Nile Rodgers, Hans Zimmer and the estate of Lou Reed.
Neighboring Rights are rights related to the sound recording of a musical work and are due to the artists and musicians featured whenever there is a commercial exploitation of it such as through radio or TV airplay.
Sony/Atv UK Managing Director and President, Worldwide Creative Guy Moot said: “We continue to...
- 6/27/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
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