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Music industry figures want ministers to follow Ireland and France’s lead and stop touts from making huge mark-upsResale of event tickets for profit should be outlawed, the managers of artists have said, as they called on ministers to reconsider a crac…
Musicians’ Census of nearly 6,000 professionals shows many rely on multiple jobs, with notable pay inequalities around disability and raceA pioneering census of nearly 6,000 working musicians in the UK has found that nearly half earn less than £14,000 …
A campaign by a pro-Europe group led to EU flags being waved during Rule, Britannia!The sight of thousands of European Union flags at the Last Night of the Proms has prompted outrage from Brexiters and a call for the BBC to investigate.Those waving the…
The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his countryThey were the rabble-rousing rappers that brought the 1980s racially charged streets of New York to the masses and tu…
The Dozaleh is one of the most important musical instruments in the Zagros region located in the west of Iran. The instrument has two sound tubes that are placed and tied together. The Dozaleh is played along with the Tombak or the Daf in wedding cere…
The spectre of intelligent technologies is looming over Australian artists, and dominating the chatter at Brisbane’s Bigsound music conferenceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMusic conferences tend to follow a similar format: showcases of up-…
Band say unexpected win is ‘testimony to good, special people putting time and effort’ into helping young people to play musicThe 2023 Mercury prize has been awarded to Ezra Collective, the London band whose propulsive blend of jazz, funk and Afrobeat …
Duo’s 2019 hit was alleged to have imitated 2015 song Dancing With Strangers, performed by Jordan VincentSam Smith has won a copyright lawsuit filed by songwriters who claimed Smith’s hit Dancing With a Stranger imitated their own track.Jordan Vincent,…
Rocker’s illness prompts third round of postponements this year, after concerts in March and August were affectedBruce Springsteen has postponed all September concerts as the singer is treated for peptic ulcer.A statement on his Instagram account said …
Brian May and some fans express dismay as contents of late Queen frontman’s home go under hammer in six-day saleFreddie Mercury’s Yamaha baby grand piano has been sold for £1.74m as thousands of his possessions were auctioned on Wednesday night, amid c…