The new promotional tool will make it easier for songwriters to gain new traction from fans and open doors for potential collaborations. The cards can even be made by fans as a way to share their favorite artists and songwriters. Spotify’s Promo Cards enable songwriters to utilize a brand new way to gain exposure and the credit they deserve.
]]>The event’s goal this year is 15,001 attendees, which would make it the most attended outdoor music event in the Tennessee Valley and Chattanooga area. Other area festivals include The Riverbend Festival at 15,000, and Moon River, which hails around 12,000 music lovers.
Jfest is set for May 20 in 2023. More information and tickets can be found at Jfest.com.
]]>Nashville-based Gibson and Kalamazoo’s own Heritage settled a complaint which the latter company filed in March 2020. The action has been dismissed with prejudice, by order of Judge Hala Y. Jarbou.
The plaintiff business was founded in 1985 by former Gibson staffers, after their previous employer relocated the company to Tennessee in 1976. Once Gibson had stopped using its Kalamazoo factory, the former employees purchased the building and a portion of the equipment on site. They then began to make and sell instruments as Heritage.
This course of events set the guitar companies up for a lawsuit in 1990, as Gibson sued for alleged trademark infringement over the design and appearance of specific Heritage guitars. Both parties settled in 1991, and per Heritage’s new lawsuit filed in 2020, they and Gibson for nearly three decades, “went their separate ways, each selling its own well-known guitars into the market, with no problems or issues.”
But after Gibson’s bankruptcy in 2018, the new majority owner KKR-led team, “threatened to sue Heritage … presumably because of a prior unfavorable trademark decision” within the 1991 suit settlement, per the new Heritage suit filed. As the two parties have put the dispute to rest, the specific terms of the agreement have not been made public.
]]>HolyName’s self-titled debut album from Facedown Records has debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Christian/Gospel Albums list. The project also claimed No. 10 on the Top New Artist Albums chart and No. 15 on the Current Hard Music Albums list.
HolyName is led by Tommy Green of Sleeping Giant fame, with the supergroup lineup rounded out by Brook Reeves (Impending Doom), Matthew Weir (Sleeping Giant), Aaron Craner and Joe Holt. Ryan Leitru (For Today) has served as their producer. HolyName’s debut full-length album HolyName showcases their signature, self-described sound: “violent worship.”
“We feel shocked and truly humbled and grateful by the people who have supported this release and made it a success,” Tommy Green says, as he reflects on the project’s wildly successful debut. “The pain and the journey and the faith journey of this record is the substance of struggle and devotion that many people can identity with in these days. There is a time for lament, a time to stop and listen to the pain of the world and the pain of the soul. That is faith as well.”
]]>Amazon previously offered a limited library of hits as a ‘free’ add-on for those who subscribe to Amazon Music Prime. Users could upgrade to their ‘Music Unlimited’ tier at a discounted fee to access the company’s entire music catalog. Now, Prime subscribers have access to Amazon’s full catalog of online music, but with a catch.
According to subscribers, music can now only be played in ‘shuffle’ mode. Choosing individual songs to play is now not an option. That’s true even for music that was paid for, according to members posting on various online sites. Claims from Amazon are that its some type of bug causing the change. The system will now only play on shuffle with ‘similar artists’ added into the playlist. Reports also state that you are limited to only six skips per hour, among other limitations.
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