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Joseph Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA, who have been involved in environmental and animal rights activism, spoke to Mexico's WAR...
Stamford, CT-based OneWall Partners secured $76 million in acquisition financing for its purchase of two suburban multifamily communities. Brad Domenico, Partner at Progress Capital arranged the loans from Arbor Commercial Mortgage through Fannie Mae’s SARMS product. OneWall Partners secured a $50,985,000 acquisition loan to purchase a 39-acre site located at 37 Alberge Lane, formerly Whispering Woods (pictured top). The property has been rebranded Hopkins Point, is 98 percent occupied and contains 524 market-rate townhomes featuring one, two and three-bedroom units. Domenico also arrange...
Music Business Worldwide June 4, 2021 Joel Little Hipgnosis Songs Fund has acquired another string of serious hits, this time from Grammy-winning songwriter, producer, and musician Joel Little. Hipgnosis has acquired 178 song rights from New Zealand’s Little, including both the writer’s and publisher’s share of this catalog. Those songs include hits recorded by the likes of Taylor Swift (Me!), Khalid (Young Dumb & Broke), Imagine Dragons (Whatever It Takes) and Lorde (Royals). Hipgnosis’s filings reveal that the 178 songs generated $4.32 million in 2019, and $2.98 million in 2018. Lit...
The pick-scraping frontman details the themes, tones and influences behind Fortitude, and talks songcraft, Death, Whammy pedals and that fine-looking mahogany Charvel...
Joe and Mario Duplantier were working on Gojira’s seventh album, Fortitude, in the autumn of 2019, when the news hit the headlines: the Amazon was on fire. Not just a small, natural fire, but acres set ablaze by land-grabbing farmers and loggers, killing wildlife and endangering tribes across Brazil and other South American countries. Most people are so numb to the 24-hour news cycle that they’d see the story and move on. Not the Duplantier brothers.On that same day, sick to their stomachs, they took to their instruments and played with white-hot rage. The result...