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By The Way: Kind Gesture From Bon Iver, Fender’s Guitar Boom, Spotify’s New Tool, Vinyl’s Revival

09-Dec-20 22:00

By The Way: Kind Gesture From Bon Iver, Fender’s Guitar Boom, Spotify’s New Tool, Vinyl’s Revival

By The Way, is a rapid-fire segment that gives you a snapshot of developing stories in the music world. This week, Bon Iver donated for gender equity, guitar giant Fender sold more guitars than ever in 2020, Spotify’s filing a patent for a new tool to weed out plagiarism, and vinyl sales to break the £100m mark by the end of this year.

Produced by: Daryl Ong, Haniff Baharudin

Presented by: Daryl Ong, Haniff Baharudin


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Categories:  Film,  Music

Tags:  Spotify,  Bon Iver donation,  guitar boom,  vinyl sales rocketed, 


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