I just started my subscription to Emusic again. Emusic is one of the biggest site for indie music download sales, and works on a subscription model, so you pay for a certain number of tracks a month. I get 50 tracks for £11.99, I think. My music’s been up on Emusic for quite a while, and a fa...

It is important to interact with current and potential fans in as many places as possible, but finding the time to keep them all updated can be difficult. And there's nothing worse then visiting a band's pages and seeing that it hasn't been updated in weeks.  Did they break up or are they just lose...

Get out the book of matches and begin to melt the cold of my banal wintery existence! The time of showdiculousness is upon is. Artists and bands are going full throttle into their Spring touring season, no longer afraid of the elements and quasi-arctic conditions Chicago often harbors six months of ...

Building the right team to support and promote your music is essential. But along the way it's important to to remember that quite often you are your own best salesman. A good manager, agent or publicist has contacts and skills including salesmanship that will help move your career forward.  But no...

This blog post was triggered by a twitter conversation with two lovely women that Lo and I finally met in person on our US jaunt, Annie Boccio and Tracy Apps - Annie and Tracy are both people we’ve been chatting to online, in both text and video formats, for months. We know loads about them, a...

i had a sinking feeling this might happen ... according to people magazine rihanna and her allegedly abusive boyfriend chris brown are reconciling and trying to work things out - i'm not surprised at all! the two are supposedly down in miami beach's star island together staying at one of p. diddy's ...

Director : Richard Linklater Release Date : 3 October 2003 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Music Cast : Jack Black as Dewey Finn, Adam Pascal as Theo, Lucas Papaelias as Neil, Chris Stack as Doug, Sarah Silverman as Patty Di Marco, Mike White as Ned Schneebly, Lucas Babin as Spider, Joan Cusack as Rosalie Mul...

Car insurance company Swiftcover which features Iggy Pop in its adverts has admitted it refuses to cover musicians....

oh my gosh ... i can't believe chris brown made his gorgeous & incredibly talented girlfriend rihanna look like this - what a foolish little asshole! TMZ just posted this shocking photo taken after her alleged beating the night before the grammy awards - i gasped when i saw this picture - it's way w...

Mitch wrote to us last week to complain that he was sent a used guitar instead of the new one he ordered. Musician's Friend and/or Guitar Center (they're related) followed up with Mitch and corrected the mistake, but it turns out that Mitch was in the wrong on this one. Here's his explanation for wh...