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Excel Entertainment launches music label with Universal Music
Excel Entertainment has launched Excel Music, a dedicated music label backed by Universal Music Group as a strategic shareholder as well as its marketing and distribution partner. The label's first release will be the soundtrack album of Mirzapur:…
Olivia Dean turns down Glastonbury headline slot to focus on making new music
Olivia Dean has passed on the chance to headline Glastonbury Festival. The BRIT Award-winning star has been catapulted to global fame in the three years since her debut album, Messy, was released. Over the last three years, the 27-year-old has…
V/H/S/Mixtape' Will Blend Found Footage Horror With Music
The V/H/S anthology horror series continues its theme era with V/H/S/Mixtape, this time applying its found-footage frights to the world of music. As you might guess, this means several of the creators this time around have strong musical ties…
How Apple Music's Stephen Campbell Is Building 'A Portal Into the Depth & Breadth' of Dance Music
Working with DJs necessitates traveling like one. So while Stephen Campbell — Apple Music's global head of dance, electronic & DJ mixes — has a desk at the company's New York office, he more often takes meetings while on the move.
Hear the Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music: This Composition, Dating Back to 900 AD, Changed Western Music
Like digging for fossils or panning for gold, the research process can be a tedious affair. But for any researcher, long days of searching and reading will eventually result in discovery. These are…
Vicki Wickham, Influential Music Television Producer and Dusty Springfield Manager, Dies at 87
Vicki Wickham, the pioneering British television producer, music executive and artist manager who worked on the television series Ready, Steady, Go!, died Aug. 1 in New York City following an extended illness. She was 87. Wickham played a defining…
Bode Partners With Yale School of Music for Century-Celebrating Capsule Collection
Bode has unveiled its debut collaboration with the Yale School of Music honoring a century of music education The capsule takes inspiration from the historical legacy of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Yale Summer School of Art and Music…
Jesse Eisenberg Musical 'The Debut' Set to Close London Film Festival
Jesse Eisenberg ‘s latest film, musical comedy-drama The Debut, is set to close the 70th BFI London Film Festival. The Oct. 18 closing night gala will be the U.K. premiere of the movie, with its writer-director expected to attend alongside…
Brandon Flowers Says He's Considered Quitting Music: 'How Much Longer do I Want to do This?
Brandon Flowers has revealed that he's considering hanging up his microphone. In a new interview with t he Times, the Killers frontman compared his life on the road with that of his father. “My dad goes to yard sales, where he buys frames to…
Empire Of The Sun's Luke Steele says 'of course' he uses AI in music and it can 'empower artists that know how to use it'
Empire Of The Sun 's Luke Steele has admitted that he uses AI to create music, saying the tech can “empower artists that know how to use it”. During an interview with iHeartRadio Canada at last weekend's Osheaga festival in Montreal…
'Miss Navajo' Musical in the Works From Director Billy Luther and Singer-Songwriter Raye Zaragoza (EXCLUSIVE)
“Frybread Face and Me” director Billy Luther is adapting his 2007 documentary “ Miss Navajo ” into a musical, which is currently in development. Now, 19 years after the world premiere at 2007's Sundance Film Festival…
Roksan's take on a streaming pre/power combination is pleasingly forward-looking and capable of musical greatness
Roksan 's new Caspian 4G range has some big shoes to fill. The previous generation was a firm favourite of ours, winning multiple Awards and gaining plenty of five-star reviews over the best part of a decade and a half. It is fair to say that…
EXCLUSIVE: Guns N' Roses Fans 'Thrilled' as Slash Confirms New Music Plans
Slash has delighted Guns N' Roses fans by revealing the band is finally preparing to record new music, raising hopes the rock legends are moving closer to their first studio album in almost two decades. RadarOnline.com can reveal the guitarist's…
Brandon Flowers is considering quitting music: 'I'm really going through it right now'
Brandon Flowers has revealed that he is considering quitting music. The frontman of The Killers, who releases his third solo album ‘Thrasher' on August 21, admitted during a new interview with The Times that he's thought about how much…
Music City Loop Station Set for Downtown JW Marriott
The future Music City Loop underground tunnel will feature a station servicing the JW Marriott Nashville hotel located in SoBro. The Elon Musk-owned company noted the agreement in an Aug. 1 blog post, saying the station will provide hotel guests…
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