Australia's independent music publisher Mushroom Music has inked a new sub-publishing partnership with peermusic, which will now represent the Mushroom Music Publishing catalogue across the United States, Canada, and Latin America (excluding Brazil). Under the new agreement, peermusic will handle Mushroom’s contemporary and legacy catalogue across copyright registration, royalty collection, sync, and creative opportunities.
Mushroom Music was established in 1972 by Michael Gudinski, and has dev...

Music industry veteran Kenny “Tick” Salcido is launching Renaissance Entertainment Company, a new creative services company focusing on providing A&R services, Artist Development & Strategic Support to artists, managers, labels, publishers and related companies throughout the creative community.
Salcido said Los Angeles-based Renaissance was inspired by some of the early A&R deals he did in the business with Wiz Kalifa (through Rostrum Records) and Terrace Martin (through his former...

These are some of the deals that were announced in the past few weeks:

Independent music publisher Kobalt has signed a new deal with Nigerian publishing company Inner Circle Publishing (INCP). Details of the agreement were not disclosed. Kobalt said the agreement marks “a significant move in expanding Kobalt’s footprint within the African music market.” Inner Circle Publishing was co-founded by Caleb Oyolola and Promise Dennis earlier this year. The company has already signed producers Choke...