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Looks like MADONNA'S stuck between rock music and a hard place. Warner Music (recently sold by TIME's parent Time Warner), her long-time record label, has sued her over Maverick Records, the boutique label they co-own. The partnership expires this year, and one side is supposed to buy out the other. Warner claims that Maverick--whose biggest success was Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 1995--has lost more than $60 million since 1999 and demands Madonna repay $92.5 million before she buys the label. Madonna's side says Warner miscalculated Maverick's earnings and hasn...
Andy Warhol notoriously rejected the dividing line between art and commerce. He'd be happy, then, to see Campbell's tomato-soup cans with labels inspired by his famous silkscreens lining supermarket shelves. Through a licensing agreement with the Andy Warhol Foundation, Campbell's has introduced limited-edition cans in four color combinations, selling for $2.99 a four-pack exclusively at Giant Eagle supermarkets. This is the first time Campbell's has deviated from its red-and-white label since it was introduced in 1898. And with a run of 300,000 cans, each with a copy of Warhol...
...Label president Daniel J. Zaccagnino ’05 has declared that the Roxy show is not going to be a one-off event, because Veritas is committed to getting Harvard bands gigs at top venues. “While we had very little, if anything, to do with setting it up,” Zaccagnino revealed, “Veritas bands like Tha League and The States have had tremendous success booking gigs with big name acts and at big clubs such as The Middle East.” Veritas has plans for at least...
...also a Crimson editor, “we are probably going to have our artists play in their store on a regular basis and do more events with them next year and after.” Siegel claims that Adidas has been “very excited about our label because it is exactly the kind of thing they like to support—original, local musical expression...
Zaccagnino emphasizes that label executives “have no personal financial interest in the success of the bands,” because all the profits are reinvested into the label or the music scene in general, but that Veritas members have “the personal satisfaction that by coordinating these bands and putting out CDs under a brand name, we might have a chance to include music in what the student body sees as important social activities...