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March 2013 - Music Connection
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SONG BIZ<br />
—DAN KIMPEL dan@dankimpel.com<br />
KOBALT ACHIEVES<br />
GROHL CONTROL<br />
Kobalt has finalized<br />
a deal with Dave<br />
Grohl to take over the<br />
exclusive worldwide<br />
administration rights<br />
to all of the musician’s<br />
music, from Nirvana to<br />
the Foo Fighters to Them<br />
Crooked Vultures. As part<br />
of the agreement, Kobalt<br />
will handle all synch and<br />
creative opportunities for<br />
Grohl’s music, including<br />
the new songs that will<br />
appear on the soundtrack<br />
to his documentary<br />
film Sound City - Real<br />
to Reel, which debuted<br />
at Sundance with the<br />
album set for release<br />
this month. See http://<br />
kobaltmusic.com.<br />
THIRD TIME'S A CHARM: CMA SONGWRITERS<br />
The annual CMA Songwriters Luncheon and presentation of the CMA Triple<br />
Play Awards, which honors songwriters who pen three chart-topping hits in<br />
a 12-month period, was held at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, TN. Back<br />
row (l-r): Neil Thrasher, Rodney Clawson, Ben Hayslip, Josh Kear and Brantley<br />
Gilbert. Front row (l-r): Eric Paslay, Dierks Bentley, Shane McAnally and Chris<br />
Young. Not pictured: Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Eric Church.<br />
DONN JONES/CMA<br />
Lenono Music and Ono Music, home to the<br />
song catalogs of John Lennon and Yoko<br />
Ono, respectively. Under the terms of the<br />
agreement, which is in effect immediately, DMP<br />
will represent Lennon's solo works, including<br />
“Imagine,” “Instant Karma (We All Shine On),”<br />
“Power to the People,” “Happy X-Mas (War Is<br />
Over)” and others.<br />
DMP will also represent the complete works<br />
of Yoko Ono, from her double-album opus Fly<br />
to YOKOKIMTHURSTON, her recently released<br />
collaboration with members of Sonic Youth.<br />
Previously, the two catalogs had been<br />
administered by EMI since the 1990s. The<br />
deal is DMP’s first as a stand-alone publisher.<br />
Over the past 12 months, Downtown Music<br />
Publishing has doubled the size of its<br />
copyright portfolio to over 40,000 titles under<br />
management.<br />
Visit http://downtownmusicpub.com.<br />
MediaNet: New Player<br />
MediaNet, the back-end of such digital<br />
services such as Mog/Beats and Songza, is<br />
expanding its offerings by providing mechanical<br />
rights licensing and administration. MediaNet<br />
currently relies on the Harry Fox Agency<br />
(HFA) to supply publishing licenses for the<br />
master rights it provides to services. But now<br />
the company is adding research staff so it can<br />
conduct direct licensing with publishers not<br />
affiliated with HFA. It also plans to offer those<br />
services to digital music service providers that do<br />
not use MediaNet as their back-end.<br />
While MediaNet is competing against<br />
players like Music Reports and HFA’s<br />
Slingshot operation, it is rumored that<br />
at least two of the major US PRO’s are<br />
considering entering into the mechanical-rights<br />
administration business also.<br />
Get details at http://mndigital.com.<br />
Capitol CMG Publishing<br />
Launches<br />
Universal Music Group Publishing and<br />
the Capitol Music Group and have launched a<br />
new publishing entity, Capitol CMG Publishing,<br />
which combines EMI CMG Publishing and<br />
Brentwood Benson Music Publishing.<br />
In putting together the two Christian<br />
publishing divisions as part of rationalizing<br />
UMG’s acquisition of EMI, EMI CMG president<br />
Eddie DeGarmo was named president of the<br />
new merged publishing arm, while Brentwood<br />
Benson president Dale Mathews is leaving<br />
the company. DeGarmo will report to Capitol<br />
Christian Music Group president/CEO Bill<br />
Hearn and UMPG North America president<br />
Evan Lamberg.<br />
In addition to having such songwriters as<br />
TobyMac, Kirk Franklin, Chris Tomlin, Casting<br />
Crowns and Jars of Clay, the new entity will<br />
also encompass such prominent Christian<br />
music catalogs as sixsteps, Thankyou Music,<br />
Hillsong, Maranatha! Music, Emack Music,<br />
Reunion Music and the Sparrow catalogs,<br />
repository to numerous legendary gospel and<br />
Christian evergreens.<br />
MICRO-BIO: Dan Kimpel’s newest book, It All Begins with the<br />
Music, is penned with legendary A&R exec Don Grierson. Hear<br />
Dan’s audio interviews worldwide on Delta Airlines.<br />
BMI FLEXES WITH MUSCLE SHOALS<br />
BMI and the Sundance Film Festival presented the 11th annual Sundance<br />
Snowball music showcase in Park City, UT. This year’s Snowball celebrated the<br />
music documentary, Muscle Shoals, which premiered at the festival. Pictured<br />
(l-r): Percy Sledge and Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI VP, Film/TV Relations.<br />
WILLIE AND KRIS: LEGENDARY WRITERS HONORED<br />
Music icons and longtime friends Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson<br />
(l-r) were both honored by the NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association<br />
International) for their unprecedented contributions to music history. One was<br />
bestowed with an award bearing his name, while the other is the inaugural<br />
recipient of that honor. The two reunited at Nashville’s famed Bluebird Café,<br />
where Kristofferson, the namesake, presented the first trophy to Nelson.<br />
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