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CMU Podcast: New Order, Web-blocks, Elastic Artists, Sound Of 2016

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 4 December 2015

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review the week in music and the music business, including Peter Hook’s lawsuit against his former New Order bandmates, the latest developments in web-blocks, the social media hijack at Elastic Artists, and all those ones to watch lists. The CMU Podcast is sponsored by 7digital.

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Stories discussed this week

• Hooky sues his former New Order bandmates
• New Order comment on being sued by Peter Hook
• German supreme court says web-blocks allowed
• Swedish court knocks back web-block request against The Pirate Bay
• Elastic Artists admits that financial difficulties have led to unpaid artist fees
• Elastic Artists client hijacks agency’s social channels as company falters
• BBC’s Sound Of 2016 longlist unveiled
• Jack Garrett wins BRITs Critics’ Choice
• Spotify Spotlight On 2016 – UK (Spotify playlist)

CMU Approved

• Go Dark
• Lafawndah
• Los Porcos
• Get Inuit

What we didn’t have time to talk about

• Adele tickets go on sale, battle against touts begins
• Martin Garrix settles with Spinnin Records, further legal action still pending
• SFX appoints bankers to explore debt restructuring
• BBC Three boss says his channel is simply “re-inventing itself” as it goes online-only
• Totally Pointless Music Awards shortlists unveiled
• Thom Yorke likens YouTube to Nazis

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