Next week political leaders from the UK and EU will meet for a UK-EU Summit. The music and wider cultural industries want the issues faced by British performers touring Europe post-Brexit to be one of ...

Oakland four-piece Mildred have no lead singer and no lead songwriter, and one member who’s an architect who took up the trade after a year in a monastery. New single ‘Fluorescence’ grew from a verse ...

Lots of people have observed that Olivia Rodrigo’s new track ‘Take Me Home (4 Christmas)’ sounds quite like two existing pop songs, ‘Christmas Wrapping’ by The Waitresses and ‘Candy’ by Robbie ...

Sunderland songwriter Mattie Vant, aka Father Hell, switched off his phone and recorded a lo-fi, gentle debut album to an analogue four-track in seven days. New single ‘I Still Love You The Same As I ...

Last week the New York Times exposed details about the 2022 contracts agreed between HYBE’s Ador agency and members of K-pop group NewJeans, prompting criticism of the K-pop business more generally. A ...

This week CISAC published its annual report telling us how much money is flowing through songwriter collecting societies, with total collections in 2025 reaching €14.1 billion. For the first time data ...

Suno is fighting several music industry lawsuits, but one stands out - filed by musician Jason Isbell - because it accuses ...

Spotify is reportedly hoping to launch its much hyped AI remix tool early next year. It’s not really clear that music ...

Lively, luminous alt-pop artist Ruby Duff has written an unconventional love song about murder. ‘Kill U While U Sleep’ has a ...

IMPALA has responded to Warner buying music distributor Zebralution, which it previously sold in 2017 as part of a divestment ...

This week it’s Ethan Beer, Head Of Press at Underplay. Alongside leading the press team, he manages a brilliant roster with Bathing Suits, Jessica Winter, Kamran Khan, pencil and Melin Melyn, running ...

Ten years ago Irish performer collecting society RAAP sued label collecting society PPI, claiming it was inappropriately deducting money from payments due to performers. After a detour via EU courts, ...