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Category Archives: Music
Radio Free Cuba
Cuba relaxes its censorship of the radio by repealing 50 year-old blacklist
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Tagged BBC, celia cruz, censorship, cuba, cuba blacklist, gloria estefan
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Page-turning playlists
The Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack opens the door to a full history of books being set to music
Rebirth: 5 famous artists before and after
5 world famous artists who reinvented themselves: Snoop Dogg, Charlotte Church, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry and The Beastie Boys. Includes reggae, trip hop, gospel, hardcore and dream pop…
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Tagged artists change, Charlotte Church, dream pop, Gospel, hardcore, Katy Perry, Nelly Furtado, rebirth, Reggae, reinvention, Snoop Dogg, The Beastie Boys, trip hop
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Album sales: a true measure of old versus new music?
How viable are album sales as an indicator of the growth of new music compared to old? We take a look at a graph recently released by Digital Music News and the conclusions that can be drawn from it…
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Tagged Album sales, Digital Music News, Music Industry, Nielsen Soundscan
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Richard Branson’s Birthday Present from Universal
Richard Branson, who is celebrating his 62nd birthday today, is in talks with Universal/EMI to buy back Virgin Records…
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Tagged Birthday, EMI, EU Competition, Richard Branson, Richard Branson Birthday, Universal, Virgin Records
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Kickstarter and the growth of crowd funding
This week Kickstarter, a US crowd-funding project, announced it is coming to the UK. We take a look at what the growth in crowd-funding means for UK artists and fans…
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Tagged amanda palmer, crowd funding, crowd sourcing, eBay, Gang of Four, grand theft orchestra, Kickstarter, Music Industry, musicians, pledge music, sellaband
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Bloc has gone into administration
Baselogic has entered administration. Here we explain what that means for ticket holders…
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Tagged administration, Baselogic, Bloc, Bloc 2012, Parker Andrews, refund, ticket holders
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London Pleasure Gardens Press Release – Bloc 2012
Here is a press release we just received from London Pleasure Gardens with regard to Friday evening…
Drop It Like Its Bloc
Bloc 2012. By now, you’ll have heard that it was a disaster. Two of our members were there when it all went wrong…
