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Tom Beedham

Hipgnosis, Song Acquisition, and the Elephant in the Room

Hipgnosis, Song Acquisition, and the Elephant in the Room

On January 24, Justin Bieber joined a sea of music legends surrendering their copyrights, unloading his entire music catalogue to U.K. investment manager Hipgnosis Song Management for a cool $200 million USD. Bieber’s catalogue, Hipgnosis’s biggest acquisition to date, is the latest blockbuster deal in an IP

After The Gold Rush: Wonderhorse Reviewed

After The Gold Rush: Wonderhorse Reviewed

When non-profit arts collective Something Shows reaches out to New Feeling and offers to fly someone from the co-op out to review Wonderhorse, it sounds like an invitation to break spells and witness progress as much as an opportunity to get a read of the local scene.

Family Values: Lawnya Vawnya Reviewed

Family Values: Lawnya Vawnya Reviewed

Asking audiences again and again to examine the branches of their relations and follow them to the connective canopies of larger networks, the kind of change Lawnya Vawnya asked for in this year's programming would amount to a psychic, socioeconomic revolution of staggering heights.

Joseph Shabason and André Ethier Come Out of The Kitchen With Fresh Pepper

Joseph Shabason and André Ethier Come Out of The Kitchen With Fresh Pepper

Fresh Pepper provides a summit for service and music workers alike, toasting their interdependencies and challenging the conditions they bump against with metaphor-rich vignettes.