Alex Warren brought his ballad “Cry Wolf” to late-night television, delivering a fog-heavy staging of the track from his album “Wildchild” on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
The appearance adds to Warren’s run of television performances as he continues to promote the project and build his profile beyond streaming and social platforms.
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Oasis have taken legal action against a former sound engineer and withdrawn a batch of archive recordings that had been set for auction. The band filed a claim in the High Court in London on September 29.
Details of the dispute have not been fully disclosed, but the move signals the band is moving to assert control over unreleased material tied to its history. The case adds a legal dimension to a year in which Oasis has drawn heavy commercial attention following its reunion.
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TikTok has built a dedicated hub for Taylor Swift’s new single “Patient Zero,” arriving a day after the track finally landed on YouTube. The song premiered at the VMAs and was released first to Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music, with YouTube only getting the video on September 29.
The staggered rollout continues a pattern of Swift’s releases favoring other platforms ahead of YouTube, underscoring how artists and their teams are increasingly sequencing distribution across streaming services and social platforms to maximize impact at each stop.
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TikTok has launched a global in-app campaign to promote “POPS,” the new album from Mrs. GREEN APPLE, marking the first time the platform has run one of its artist-specific global campaigns for a Japanese act.
The campaign puts the band, Japan’s top-selling act, alongside other top-tier artists who have received similar dedicated TikTok promotional pushes. Details on the campaign’s specific features were not disclosed.
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A Tokyo court has ruled that a person’s voice can fall under publicity rights protection, a legal first in Japan. The decision came in a case brought by voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda against TikTok.
Tsuda did not win his specific takedown request, but the ruling establishes a new legal precedent recognizing voice as a protectable element of personal identity under Japanese law. The decision could have implications for AI voice cloning and unauthorized use of performers’ vocal likeness on platforms operating in Japan.
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Pophouse Entertainment has acquired 50% of Sia’s publishing and master rights for a reported $180 million, a price that implies a valuation of roughly $360 million for the singer’s full catalog.
The deal adds Sia to Pophouse’s growing roster of catalog holdings, which includes stakes in work by ABBA and other major acts. Terms covering which specific songs and rights are included were not disclosed.
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Michael Dorf Presents will hold the 22nd annual installment of its Music Of benefit concert series at Carnegie Hall on March 10, 2027, this year honoring the songbook of Tom Waits. Longtime Waits collaborator Greg Cohen, who played bass on albums including “Swordfishtrombones” and “Rain Dogs,” will serve as musical director, leading a house band that includes Smokey Hormel, Rob Burger, Jay Bellerose and Cyro Baptista. The performing lineup will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Music Of series, which launched in 2004, has previously staged Carnegie Hall tributes to artists such as Billy Joel, Prince, Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin. According to the announcement, the series has directed more than $2.5 million to music education nonprofits to date, and net proceeds from the Waits tribute will again benefit such programs.
Dorf is also introducing the Glen Hansard Award, a new annual $25,000 scholarship for a young artist nominated by the series’ beneficiary organizations, named for musician Glen Hansard, who has performed at eight of the tribute concerts.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by The Press House.
Producer IMOGEN is marking the fifth anniversary of her label Wigs with a new collaborative EP, a run of European anniversary dates and the debut of a new live show. The four-track EP, “Back To The Halcyon,” is a collaboration with Regal86, with each producer contributing two tracks and reworking the other’s material. Lead single “One Night In 1992” is out now, with the full EP arriving October 16.
The anniversary celebrations kick off the same day at Tresor Berlin, with further European dates to be announced in October, according to the announcement. Wigs began as production workshops and parties during the 2021 lockdown before formalizing as a label in 2023, with past releases and events involving artists including DJ Stingray 313, Helena Hauff, Roza Terenzi and Sunil Sharpe.
IMOGEN will also debut her first live show, combining improvised hardware performance with dubplate vinyl, at Gaffe on December 12, with the format set to continue developing into 2027. She has released music on Tresor, Fabric, Mute and Voitax and holds residencies with Tresor and NTS.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Aoife Lavery | Neighbourhood PR, neighbourhoodpr.com.
Munich duo Schrotthagen will release their third studio album, Neue Welt, on November 27 via Universal Music. The project, made up of composers Giovanni Berg and Dieter Schleip, describes its sound as “cinematic techno,” blending electronic production with film-scoring techniques the pair developed separately before forming the group in 2023.
The new record explores themes of artificial intelligence, social media and dreaming, centered on a concept the duo calls the Dream Machine, in which characters escape into artificial dream worlds while their physical selves deteriorate. It follows 2024’s Sturm und Drang and 2025’s Nostalgie and Traurigkeit, continuing what the band frames as a multi-album conceptual arc moving from freedom and memory toward questions about technology and authenticity.
Schrotthagen will tour Europe this autumn and winter in support of the album, with dates in Zurich, Toulouse, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg and a hometown show at Tonhalle München on December 12. According to the announcement, the band has drawn a growing international following, citing more than 924,000 monthly Spotify listeners, and says it is developing a live show with reactive stage and lighting elements inspired by the album’s Dream Machine concept.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Aoife Lavery | Neighbourhood PR, neighbourhoodpr.com.
Hamilton, Ontario singer-songwriter AOIFE has released a new single, “Johnny,” a track structured as an unsent letter to a former lover. The song was inspired by the film “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” according to the announcement, and blends indie folk with country and rock elements, driven by acoustic guitar, sliding bass lines and electric guitar work from her backing band.
The track was recorded at Hamilton’s Grant Avenue Studio, produced by Andrew Lauzon, co-mixed with Tyler Bruce and mastered by Noah Mintz. AOIFE gained access to the studio after winning The Road to Supercrawl in 2025, a prize that also secured her a spot on the festival’s main stage.
“Johnny” follows AOIFE’s previous single “High” and her debut EP “When All Is Said and Done.” Earlier this year she performed for CBC Music’s Road to the Junos broadcast during Hamilton’s turn hosting the award ceremony, with that set available on CBC Gem and YouTube.
Based on a press release provided to Music Industry Weekly by Eric Alper, thatericalper.com.