A kind of halfway house here between the Billboard Hot 100 post we did a while back and a Christmas playlist (since it’s still a bit too early): this is everything that was at number one in the UK charts on the 25th of December every year since 1950, which is pretty much (-+ 2) [...]
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You should by now be thinking of how you’re going to manage your band’s triumphant rise to fame over the Festival Season next summer. To make things a little easier for you, we thought we’d collect together the contact details of a few of the major ones here:Bestival (Isle of Wight)Download this form: http://media.sundaybest.net/media/BESTIVAL_2010_DEMO_ENTRY_FORM_FOR_BANDS.docand email [...
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Aristotle said “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can move the world.” Seemingly Susan Boyle had the lever all along, and once she’d stood in front of the dreaded Simon Cowell the world suddenly started paying attention to the unprepossessing spinster. Now her debut album has broken Amazon’s previous record [...]
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Our music retail partner Emusic has been running a countdown of their favorite albums on their blog. They’re most of the way through now, releasing ten per day, with 3 days left to go. It’s obviously a very personal list, obviously, but it might introduce you to a few things you’ve missed over the last [...]
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You’ve got a great band together, some great ideas, you’ve polished your performance, you’re happy with your sound and you’ve got the perfect 15 tracks to lay down on the debut album that’s going to be the major weapon in your assault on the charts. One problem. You haven’t got the ten grand you need [...]
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We posted yesterday about EMI’s bleak balance sheet: today they’re in the news with a new Hulu page for Norah Jones, presumably the first of many of their artists that will be featuring on the site. I think this adoption of new channels can only be a good thing for the industry. It might feel [...]
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It been thirty years since the original members of Band Company performed together in the UK.Plans to play eight dates in the UK during April next year have just been set in stone, and with all the original band members no less. Singer Paul Rodgers, drummer Simon Kirke, guitarist Mick Ralph and new bassist Lynn [...]
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A straight repost here, because we’ve been saying this for a while: the Guardian basically patting Spotify on the back for having an instrumental part in the decline of illegal filesharing. A great reason to let us do your online distribution for you, as we’re working with Spotify.While the government and the music industry posture [...]
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Digidesign’s recently released Eleven Rack, which combines amp simulation and a Pro Tools interface into a single 2U device, is delivering a series of competition give-aways and demonstrations on tour in DV Guitar & Amp Centres in London this winter. Dates for the mini-tour are posted below.The presentation-style conventions will give users the chance to [...]
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I’ve blogged about my love for Fat Freddy’s Drop before, and lucky for you, they’re back in the UK later this month for two dates: the Hammersmith Apollo in London on the 30th, in Manchester on the 1st of Oct.Tickets are available here:http://www.gigantic.com/gigantic/home_fat_freddys_drop.html…you should also remind yourself of their live brilliance with this video below. [...]
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In her speech today, she announced her (Labour) Government’s plans to enact a bill including measures against individuals who commit filesharing offences:“My government will introduce a bill to ensure communications infrastructure that is fit for the digital age, supports future economic growth, delivers competitive communications and enhances public service broadcasting,”Last month, Peter M
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A cool mashup of styles here from the guys behind the Black Keys – they’re working with a lot of different musicians to produce rock/rap combinations, but this session from Real Live Flesh is more like R&B/Folk than the sort of Run DMC vs. Aerosmith image that conjures up in my mind.If this is your [...]
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I'm usually a fan of Ninja Tune - Fink, Mr. Scruff and the Cinematic Orchestra are particular favourites - so I was interested by their new signing Emika: Emika describes herself as "making pop, but with a hard edge, playing different sounds and intensities against each other. I try to stay on the fence, leaving from [...]
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Billing itself as "Europe's leading festival for new music" Brighton's 3 day festival in May has just opened its artist registration page, hoping to attract new bands to play at their May 2010 event. While we can't agree with their recommendation that you sign up with Zimbalam for your digital distribution needs, we do recommend [...]
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Like everyone else on Wall Street, and particularly in the music industry EMI is facing pressure from it's creditors, and the outlook is not improved by the rejection of a recent proposal from Terra Firma (EMI's owners) to pump £1 billion into the company, in return for Citibank (the sole major creditor to EMI) writing [...]
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You might not be able to get a slot on From The Basement without greasing some major label palms, but BalconyTV is a channel that does daily sessions with unsigned and indie artists. So far they've had more than 8 million views across their bands, with The Script netting almost half a million plays as [...]
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You can't buy her old Volvo as a part of the package, but a lock of Lady Gaga's hair looks like a bargain next to the thousands of dollars freaky stalkers super-fans are willing to pay for celebrity residues. For the consideration of a mere $114.98, you get a bundle of Gaga goodies that includes: Pre-Order [...]
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Want to make awesome robotic sounds like Daft-Punk, Kraftwerk, Vangellis, or Sparky the Magic Piano?……… Then Sonicism's Vintage Vocoder is the audio effects tool that you've been crying out for. Designed from the ground up to capture that classic analogue vocoder sound using today's DSP technology, Sonicism's Vintage Vocoder is the most powerful, versatile and cost effective Vocoding [...]
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If it wasn't for the clear brilliance of his intellect on his Theme Time Radio Hour, I would think Mr. Zimmerman was losing the plot. He's released a Wierd-Al-like polka Christmas song, in aid of the charity Feeding America. "As Rolling Stone previously reported, all of Dylan's royalties from the album benefit Feeding America and other [...]
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Lady Gaga – Southpark Style Possibly scraping the barrel in terms of Gaming News but when something is this fantastic, it’s impossible not to share. Yes, it’s Cartman singing lady Gaga’s Pokerface (The Gang are playing Rockband so er…that’s digital musiccar news isnt it?). This is from the newest episode of south park [...]
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