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Floor Jansen Departs Nightwish
Vocalist had been with Finnish metal band for thirteen years
Blondie to Release First Album in Nine Years, ‘High Noon’
The 13-track LP features Clem Burke’s final recording with the band. Blondie Announce High Noon, First New Album in Nine Years Alex Krinsky
New Book Explores UK’s 2000s Indie Music Scene
Janine Warren tells NME about 'The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000-2010', a time of "hedonism and high ideals" and lessons learned from Franz Ferdinand, The
October 2026 PlayStation Plus Games Revealed
All the titles for Essential, Extra and Premium users have been announced
‘Big Walk’ Boycotts Xbox in Support of Palestine
“We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world” said ‘Big Walk’ creators
Blondie Announce High Noon, First New Album in Nine Years
The 13-track LP features Clem Burke’s final recording with the band. Blondie Announce High Noon, First New Album in Nine Years Alex Krinsky
SXSW London Confirms Dates & Theme for 2027 Edition: Here’s What to Expect
The festival will take place in Shoreditch, east London next May.
MVT pilot study shows only 21 per cent of live music from grassroots venues is registered repertoire amidst battle for fairer PRS payments
“This study will give us a more comprehensive picture that we hope will benefit venues, songwriters and collecting societies alike”
“This decision is necessary and important to us and our future ambitions”: Floor Jansen has exited Nightwish
Vocalist had been with Finnish metal band for thirteen years
One of the best-reviewed games of 2026 is boycotting Xbox in support of Palestine
“We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world” said ‘Big Walk’ creators
The new book that revisits the messy magic of the UK ’00s indie scene: “If you weren’t out, you felt like you were missing out”
Janine Warren tells NME about 'The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000-2010', a time of "hedonism and high ideals" and lessons learned from Franz Ferdinand, The Cribs, Bloc Party and many more The post The new book that revisits the messy magic of the UK ’00s i
Art rock guitarist and producer Bill Nelson reflects on trying to push Gary Numan out of his comfort zone
In our wide-ranging interview, guitar supremo Bill Nelson remembers working with Numan, Sylvian, Budd and talks the Guitars of Tomorrow
“Tarantino wanted to get a genuine reaction”: Hateful Eight Martin wasn't smashed by accident claims historian
It wasn’t an error after all, he says
NMPA boss criticises Amazon Music over Phonorecords V filing
The filings are in for the ‘Phonorecords V’ process to set the mechanical-royalty rates for music streaming in the US for the next five years. And NMPA boss David Israelite is already on Instagram giving DSPs a piece of his mind for their proposals. The post is from Music Ally.
Inside Starlight Festival’s Historic Debut at the Great Pyramids of Giza
Charlotte de Witte, Michael Bibi, Adriatique and more performed at the sold-out festival, which welcomed fans from 114 countries and marked a new chapter for Egypt’s electronic music scene.
Ex:Re announces new album 'Save As'
Elena Tonra’s solo project Ex:Re returns with ‘Sleep’ - demoed alone in a Paris hotel room, acoustic guitar run through a vocoder, late-night and muffled. Second album ‘Save As’ is out 30 Oct. The in-
UK Copyright Tribunal rules on cinema music royalties
A dispute over what royalties cinemas should pay PRS for music contained in the films they screen went before the UK Copyright Tribunal earlier this year. It has ruled in favour of a higher royalty ra
Primary Wave partners with Brian Vander Ark
The deal covers Vander Ark's publishing and recorded music catalogs, including the songs he wrote for The Verve Pipe. Source
The inside story of Kenny Loggins' Footloose
“The movie lifts the song and the song lifts the movie”
Grian Chatten planning another solo album
He also said that after the release of ‘Dopamine Chamber’ he thinks “the best place we can go from here is away for a while”