Back in the early 2000s, UK garage entered an era where the sound became increasingly divisive. The scene itself was suffering due to a divide where some of the music was getting faster and...
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The next big scam in the music industry? Criminals pretending they own the rights to records and coining it in – as two US men face charges of stealing $20million of royalties…
Criminality has never been a million miles away from the music world, as I outlined in an article recently about “dark forces” in the major labels working overtime to stop themselves having to give...
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Haven’t we all suffered enough already in 2021? Once great label Positiva asks Jamie Jones remixes “Tainted Love” by Soft Cell – and it’s just as awful as you’d expect…
Believe it or not, but there actually was a time in dance music history when new songs came out frequently and were supported. And older records would typically only be remixed when there was...
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So it wasn’t just disease the plague rave DJs brought to Tulum! Murders in the Mexican town rose by 80% between January and September this year – and it’s no mystery who was also in town back then…
The plague rave DJs who went to Tulum to play amidst a huge wave of Covid-19 earlier this year have a few things in common. They all left their consciences at home. They all...
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PRS for Music launch fund to help musicians pay their winter bills – but in a climate where Universal’s Lucian Grainge gets paid £150million, isn’t this just a sticking plaster for a far bigger problem?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you can’t have possibly failed to notice that your money doesn’t go quite as far as it used to. Food costs are up, fuel costs are...
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