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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast #255 + A Special Merlin Episode
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-plus-a-special-merlin-episode/
- Published: 2025-06-23T12:54:37.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-23T13:53:46.000Z
- Description: Episode 255 of THE Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchar Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. Listen here.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Episode 255 of THE Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchar Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Weekly News for the New Music Business is available now. **Listen here.**

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### Episode 255

On this week’s edition of the Your Morning Coffee podcast hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss these important industry stories:

- “Did Sony’s Rob Stringer Just Hand Regulators The Case To Tank Universal’s Downtown Dreams?” (Complete Music Update)
- “This Palm Springs Venue Was A Hot Spot For Music. Then Came The Pandemic And A Bitter Legal Battle” (LA Times)
- “Why Tariffs Are Quietly Undermining The American Vinyl Comeback” (Chris Castle/Music Technology Policy).

Plus an audio drop from Ruby Marchand – Recording Academy Chief Awards and Global Industry Officer.

#### Special Episode

Also, don’t miss this special Your Morning Coffee podcast episode with Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota in an in-depth conversation.

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