How should the music industry have tackled illegal filesharing? Kiss frontman Gene Simmons has some blunt ideas. “The music industry...
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Remember that there are no good or bad news…only news. Publicity doesn’t have a positive or negative character. Whether you lost a contract with your label or received Top 10 success, the both have the same weight of importance for the fan. You must always be in publicity because this way ensures that the audience will always remember you. Also sometimes what you think as bad publicity, is good for other. So do not baptize your news, just make them known to the people…
It's a long, familiar process for thousands across Britain. Left hand on phone. Engaged tone. Redial. Right hand on laptop....
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Time has been good to Yoko Ono. Once derided by fans as a divisive force in the Beatles universe, Ono...
LEGENDARY U2 producer Steve Lillywhite has said the band's latest album No Line on the Horizon did not achieve what...
Well....believe it or not...we have actually finished the album and sent it off to our label, Steamhammer SPV for publication/replication....
Finnish melancholic rockers AMORPHIS - who have just released the retrospective „Magic & Mayhem – Tales from the Early Years“...
EMI has won a six-year legal battle on VAT (sales tax) charged on promotional CDs in the U.K. (more…)