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The book will be available at the end of September
A new book about mental health in the music industry is set to be published.
Titled Can Music Make You Sick?: Measuring the Price of...
Exploring everything from Detroit and Berlin Techno to Israeli psytrance
Rave On: Global Adventures In Electronic Dance Music, a new book written by widely celebrated journalist Matthew Collin, documents the evolution and ever-changing culture of...
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The #WeMakeEvents march coincides with a country-wide ‘Red Alert’ day where venues will light up in unison
Music industry workers marched in Manchester today (11th August), calling on the government to provide for employees in the touring and festival events sectors.
Backed...
Mayor Of London, Alan Miller, Alex Proud, fabric HQ & more respond to club’s revocation...
The Mayor Of London, Sadiq Khan, has issued a statement about the closure of Fabric.
“London’s iconic clubs are an essential part of our...
"Don't get a job!" pleads the WeTransfer president...
WeTransfer has offered all 173 recent SoundCloud lay off causalities $10,000 (US) so they do not “stray from [their] original mission to change the way...
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RIAA figures also show that sales of vinyl rose 8% on the previous year...
A report by The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has shown that 75% of music revenue made in the retail sector within the US...
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Local Action Records, LWE and a number of other industry figures are joining the scheme
Music industry specialists, Triple Threat Management, are set to launch their Music Industry Diversity Initiative with a six-month mentoring scheme.
Earlier this week, TTM...
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“Being Hardwell 24/7 leaves too little energy, love, creativity and attention for my life as a normal person”...
Hardwell has announced that he is taking an indefinite hiatus from touring and the music industry.
Speaking in a Facebook post shared earlier today (7th...
Features
Award-winning radio presenter and proponent of the diversity-focused Radio Silence movement, Kay-Lee Golding, explores the lack of Black representation in mainstream UK radio
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UK Music's annual report says around 69,000 people lost work amid the COVID-19 pandemic
More than a third of UK music industry workers lost their jobs last year, amid the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the shutdown of clubs and music...
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Concerns over discrimination and loss of work were major contributing factors
A new Arts Council England-funded consultation has revealed many music industry workers with non-visible disabilities are putting their health and safety at risk by not...
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The new enquiry is called Economics of Music Streaming
MPs in the British parliament are to examine the economic impact music streaming is having on “artists, record labels and the sustainability of the wider...
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Wax brought in £57.1million last year...
Vinyl makes more revenue for the British music industry than YouTube, according to a new report by the Entertainment Retailer's Association (ERA).
Income from the...
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The platform, formerly known as Black Bandcamp, relaunched on 5th May with a new website
Black Artist Database (B.A.D.) has relaunched as a significantly expanded platform, with a number of new initiatives to help people search for, contact and directly...
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82% of respondents said they suffered from "continuous levels of stress"...
A new study has revealed that many music industry workers are subjected to inordinately high levels of stress.
Carried out by Skiddle, it has yielded in...