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In Canada: More Streaming Manipulation Sites Taken Down, Warner Canada A&R Head Starts New Venture

Nine streaming fraud sites are shut down and more Canada music industry news, including a new venture for Warner Canada's A&R head.

SWING is launching as a Toronto-based management company with Diamond Cafe as its first artist, though Kalivas says the eventual plan is to “evolve into a full-service record label in no time.” But it was Diamond Cafe that made Kalivas realize the time was right to strike off on his own “I haven’t seen a triple threat artist like him — writer, performer and producer — in 15 years,” he says. As publishing and song catalogs become a major money-maker in the music industry, artists like Diamond Cafe, who can work both in front of and behind the scenes, are being scouted heavily.

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