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DJmag.com investigates the changing landscape of artist promotion, and the possibility that in the future there won't be any record labels.

"I think it's true to say that the record buying public want to discover new artists for themselves," states Casey Thundertone, founder of fledgling 'reggae-tronica'...

Independent Label Market announces London edition for May

Labels such as AD 93, Ninja Tune and Houndstooth will all be setting up shop at the event

London's Independent Label Market has shared details of its next edition, taking place in May. The market will be located at Coal Drops Yard in...

They need £12,500 to make the dream a reality

The team behind London-based dubplate cutting service 1-800-Dubplate have launched a crowdfunding campaign via Kickstarter to help fund a new "specialist ‘underground dance music’ record...

New wax, anyone?

Three new record shops have opened in London in the past week.

Following the launch of a new Honest Jon spot in King's Cross and...

 The city of lights is getting a new place to source music...

Dizonord, a brand new record store, is opening up in the French capital.

A two-day opening party is planned for this Friday 8th February, with...

Matter of Fact

Matter of Fact employs carbon-neutral shipping and FSC-certified sleeves

A new vinyl pressing plant aimed at grassroots music and indie labels has opened in northeast Germany. The founders of Matter of Fact, which has...

The digital download store has surpassed 250 million downloads

Beatport have released a new infograph to coincide with their 16th anniversary, charting their legacy and influence via a series of key stats and figures...

London's Rat Records to reopen under new name and management

In addition to being a record shop, it will also open as a small events venue

The site of former London record shop Rat Records is to be taken over as a new record store under different management. The shop will...

"Never before have record stores and dentistry been so tightly linked," says science educator Sam Haynor

Science educator Sam Haynor has come up with a new way of listening to your vinyl records, curiously using your teeth.

As The Vinyl Factory...

Vinyl sales have risen 33.72% from 2019

Sales in physical music have skyrocketed amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to online music marketplace Discogs.

In their 2020 mid-year report, the website - which...

The new platform is designed to offer digital collectibles for electronic music

RCRDSHP – a new marketplace for electronic music collectibles – has launched, and subsequently sold out, its first drop of NFTs from a range of artists...

Founded in 1991, Nervous Records was at the epicentre of New York’s house explosion. Three decades, and over 5,000 releases later, it’s still pumping out...

You can accomplish a lot in three decades, and Nervous Records, the pioneering New York label that’s marking 30 years in the dance music business...

The shop is promising better returns for artists and rights holders

A new specialist dubstep record store, 140 Plates, has launched online. 

Established by Pieter Grauwels, the face behind the highly respected DUPLOC label and the...

Boomtown bar staff report poor treatment, discrimination and neglect at 2022 festival

Workers subcontracted through Freemans Event Partners say the were threatened, neglected, overworked and suffered invasions of privacy at the Winchester festival earlier this month

This story was updated on 25th August 2022 to include statements from Boomtown concerning Freemans Event Partners and its share sales to Live Nation, SJM...

UK labels are expecting to earn more from vinyl than CDs for the first time in three decades

Vinyl sales contributed £86.5 million to the UK’s recorded music revenue in 2020, a new report from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has revealed. 

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