SongVest Creates Invested Fans by Selling Shares of Music Royalties

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SongVest is the world’s first music marketplace where fans become investors by purchasing fractional shares of music royalties. Here’s how the revolutionary service works for everyone involved.  The following was created in collaboration with SongVest, […]

Remembering musical astronaut Manuel Göttsching : NPR

Remembering musical astronaut Manuel Göttsching : NPR

Manuel Göttsching, an influential German musician best known for his work on modular synths, died Dec. 4. Ullstein Bild/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ullstein Bild/Getty Images Manuel Göttsching, an influential German musician best known […]

Animoca Brands Takes Majority Stake in Deadmau5’s Pixelynx

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Photo Credit: Deadmau5 / CC by 3.0 The Sandbox developer Animoca Brands has officially purchased a majority interest in deadmau5-founded “music metaverse gaming platform” Pixelynx. Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, which arrived on the scene in […]

Nice ass: Jerzy Skolimowski on his donkey film that wowed Cannes | Movies

‘Ee-oh!” … one of the equine stars of EO.

In his rolling, sonorous, Polish-accented English, veteran director Jerzy Skolimowski explains how he became a donkey whisperer. “I make a very close bond with the animal,” he says. “Every time I was not doing anything […]

NIGHTWISH Singer’s Radiation Therapy Rescheduled For January; Asian Tour Postponed

NIGHTWISH Singer's Radiation Therapy Rescheduled For January; Asian Tour Postponed

NIGHTWISH has once again postponed its previously announced Asian tour. The trek was called off less than a month after NIGHTWISH singer Floor Jansen revealed that she was “cancer free” after recently undergoing surgery to […]

The best music books of 2022 | Best books of the year

In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in 70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson

Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, […]

Girls Aloud’s 20 best songs – ranked! | Girls Aloud

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20. No Regrets (2005) Ballads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the […]

SAXON’s BIFF BYFORD On ‘Wheels Of Steel’: ‘We Had No Sense Of Destiny. But We Did Know We’d Written Some Classics’

SAXON's BIFF BYFORD On 'Wheels Of Steel': 'We Had No Sense Of Destiny. But We Did Know We'd Written Some Classics'

The latest issue of Rock Candy magazine celebrates the making of SAXON‘s game-changing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal album “Wheels Of Steel” with a 10-page mega feature including new interviews with every band member […]

How Siouxsie and the Banshees Inspired Jenna Ortega’s Dance in Wednesday

How Siouxsie and the Banshees Inspired Jenna Ortega's Dance in Wednesday

Thanks to a delightfully aloof performance from Jenna Ortega, Netflix’s updated Addams Family adaptation Wednesday has been a runaway hit. In one unforgettable scene, Ortega’s Wednesday Addams lets her guard down for a bit and breaks […]

Here are some books by Latino authors for the holiday season

"Eastsiders" by Gregory Bojorquez

If I had a dime for every time I hear Latinos aren’t a monolith, I’d be rich enough to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Yet news stories about Latinos still largely veer between the […]

Radical French director Jean-Marie Straub dies aged 89 | Movies

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Anti-conformist French film-maker Jean-Marie Straub died peacefully at his home in Switzerland on Sunday, the Swiss National Film Archive announced. He was 89. Straub was a peer of many greats from the French New Wave […]

Paramore Change Their Self-Titled Album Artwork

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Have you seen Paramore’s newest album cover? No, it’s not for the pop-punk stalwarts’ upcoming LP This Is Why, but as Kerrang points out, the band have instead swapped the official artwork for their 2013 self-titled […]

Colin Irwin obituary | Folk music

Colin Irwin, left, interviewing the US blues musician Seasick Steve at the Cambridge folk festival, 2010

Though the music journalist Colin Irwin, who has died suddenly aged 71, specialised in folk music, his writing ranged across many genres, especially during the 1970s and 80s, when he worked on Melody Maker magazine. […]