The BBC and many other news and music sites say, ‘Music is back’ as sales hit a 20-year high’. To put that into perspective, 20 years ago was obviously 2005, iTunes had been released in 2001 so the ‘world’ was making the shift to digital music. Cars still mostly had CD players, some still had…
In the lull of gigs (there’s not a lot going on locally right now) and buying vinyl (I’m not allowed this close to Christmas in case its already bought and wrapped) I find myself down a regular rabbit hole on Spotify where I can while away way too much time discovering new songs and hopefully…
Yes I like music videos, I grew up as part of the MTV generation, instead of playing music all day I would often put MTV on the TV in the front room, turn it up and enjoy the visual as well as the music. This was in the good old days of music shows such…
If you saw the news this weekend, Kerrang, Kiss, 4Music, Magic and The Box have ceased programming. Back on the 29 January 2024, Channel 4 announced that Kerrang! TV and its sister channels would be closing as part of the future plans of the company leading up to 2030. So that’s it, gone! I missed…
“I think that people just want to turn the faucet on and have music come in. They’re not really concerned about all the romantic shit I thought mattered.” – Trent Reznor https://www.loudersound.com/news/nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-streaming-mortally-wounded This is a quote I picked out of an interview with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on Loudersound.com, there is a longer conversation…
The battle against Tik Tok takes another step forward, I would hazard a guess that UMG (Universal Music Group) are tracking all those ‘Ban Tik Tok in the west’ news stories. So far …… Why is UMG taking their music off TikTok? FEB 27 2024 – ‘Universal’s music was licensed to TikTok until earlier this…
