Kendal Calling has announced a massive four day, five headliner line up to mark the festival’s tenth anniversary.
The historic Abbey Road studios will be given a multi-million-pound overhaul to assure its status as one of the world’s pre-eminent recording venues.
A new festival will hit Belfast on Saturday, May 30th. The AVA Festival (Audio Visual Arts) will focus on showcasing and supporting Northern Irish talent.
Rapper Jay Z has bought Norwegian streaming service Wimp after putting in a bid of 464 million kroner (about £47 million) for its parent company Aspiro.
The UK Government has halted a proposed move that would see law protecting the copyright of certain unpublished sound recordings up to the year 2039.
Spotify is about to raise $500m investment from Goldman Sachs, potentially putting off an initial public stock offering for another year.
A countrywide survey in December 2014 showed that just 4% of Norwegians under 30 years still used illegal file-sharing platforms to get hold of music.
Giant physical entertainment distributor Arvato has made the decision to close its UK site and exit the UK music business by spring this year.
Wu-Tang Clan members Raekwon and Ghostface Killah confirmed they would oversee “The Purple Tape Files” documentary of their album “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx”.
Howard Marks, the notorious former drug smuggler known as “Mr Nice”, has told the Observer he has been diagnosed with inoperable bowel cancer.
Edgar Froese of the innovative and prolific German electronic group Tangerine Dream passed away this week.
He was 70 years old.