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You can probably gather all you need to know about Mick Hucknall's attitude towards the modern music industry by his choice of Cuba as the recurring motif of Simplified, the [...]

Midem delegates don't need to make the trip down the coast to the Music Picasso in Juanles-Pins for evidence that every beloved institution goes through very different phases. Always a [...]

Perhaps it is because they have been poorly represented throughout the CD era with their tinny mid-Eighties remasters, but The Rolling Stones have seized upon the next generation of formats [...]

There are various ways you could attempt to explain the disproportionate commercial and critical weight of Irish music over the past four decades. Bob Geldof has suggested that Irish pop [...]

When Gran Kru Records, in the company of Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, launched its Letter To Tony Blair campaign last November to force radio into dedicating 40% of playlist [...]

The fact that we live in uncertain times doesn't really change the fact that we are all still producers, and we have had an extremely successful year. We have got [...]

Those suffering at the hands of the current job market can doubtless relate to those who are just looking for their first job. They might even tell them not to [...]

As hard as it is to remember a time before hip hop emerged from the uptown boroughs of New York, it is very nearly as difficult to remember a time [...]

As if Christmas wasn't traditionally tense enough for record companies and retailers desperate to make the most of the year's undisputed boom period, this year the market finds itself in [...]

Just as global warming seems destined to spell the end for snow on these shores, so the all-round entertainment store has slowly melted the sentimental concept of the old-fashioned record [...]

So, a ringtone is at number one and the music world and the mobile content industry have found their ultimate synthesis. Whatever else happens in the mobile space, the events [...]

Whether because Father's Day is rapidly approaching on June 20, or simply because DVD still mainly appeals to men, last week's music DVD Top 30 gave us a glimpse into [...]

No sooner have record companies finally become comfortable with the practice of doing their business in the digital domain than they find themselves in the unusual position of preaching the [...]

From the Grateful Dead onwards, certain bands and their more fervent fans have maintained a proud tradition of legitimate bootlegging. On their comeback tour last year, the Pixies went a [...]

If the past five or six years have taught online survivors one lesson, it is not to take themselves too seriously. And nowhere is that more true than in web [...]

Rotten weather apart, TV pluggers rode out along, barren summer in 2004. But since the season has turned to autumn, TV opportunities have been raining out of the sky--at least […]

You would be forgiven for assuming that the world of physical distribution is a grim place to be right now. The collapse of MacTwo in January was followed last month […]

'Vinyl is a thriving business,' says Vinyl Factory director Tim Robinson, three years on from the company's acquisition of its two vinyl plants at Hayes and Orlake. 'Some 80% of […]

Music Week this week kicks off a new fortnightly look at digital music. We launch this regular section with an in-depth feature by Adam Woods and Ajax Scott examining the […]

It is possibly overstating the case to suggest that any artist who has had any degree of albums chart success in 2003 is represented in the slate of Christmas DVD [...]

The release of The World According To RZA through Virgin on June 2 will mark an important event in the world of hip hop--with the emphasis on 'world'. Compiled by [...]

It is hard to pinpoint precisely when music lost its innocence. Maybe it was in the mid-Eighties, when charming fmcg suitors such as Levi's and Coca-Cola let it know just [...]

The music industry is currently looking to encompass other forms of entertainment like never before. With Robbie Williams' 'multi-platform' deal, the success of Pop Idol and the income being tapped [...]

Despite being the source of diverse talent ranging from Ozzy Osbourne and ELO to Duran Duran and UB40, Birmingham has long battled against an image problem. Now, with regeneration projects [...]

Identifying the 'next big thing' is arguably as important to every independent PR as it is to A&R scouts across the country. And the never-ending supply of new acts in [...]

If you had suggested a decade ago that the mid- and low-price sector would one day emerge as the spiritual godfather of major label strategy, few would have believed you. [...]

In an interview in the current issue of Mojo magazine, John Lydon claimed that, 25 years on, 'success would be that the Sex Pistols would be utterly meaningless'. Judging by [...]

Vinyl had acquired a reputation as the anti-gravity format long before manufacturing closures last year created a potentially disastrous supply shortfall. With last spring's vinyl drought in mind, fans of [...]

SEMINAR GUIDE SATURDAY JANUARY 19 0930-1015 -- Business Keynote -- AOL Music: Making Online Music Mainstream Speaker: Kevin Conroy, SVP & general manager of AOL Music (US); 1015-1115 Portability In [...]

* COPYRIGHT OWNERS from all over the world will be doing their best to drive a hard bargain in Cannes this week as they invite bids for their wares. And [...]

VERDI: Aida. Gallardo-Domas, La Scola, Borodina, Hampson, Salminen, Polgar; Vienna Philharmonic/Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Teldec 8573-85402-2 (3CD)). Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt travels a long way from his origins as a guru of [...]

L'ORCHESTRE DE SATIE: Including Deux Gymnopedies, Parade, Je te veux, Chez un `bistrot'. Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux/Yutaka Sado (Erato 8573-85827-2). Eric Satie inspired countless others to break free from past [...]

BRIDGE: Isabella; Enter Spring; Two Poems for orchestra; Mid of the Night. BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9950). This is the first volume in a projected [...]

FINZI: Cello Concerto; Eclogue for piano and strings; Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra. Tim Hugh, Peter Donohoe; Northern Sinfonia/Howard Griffiths (Naxos 8555325). The wide emotional range of [...]

Manchester's annual In The City conference drew 1,800 delegates at the weekend with one of its strongest line-ups in recent years, despite being forced back to the drawing board by [...]

EMERSON STRING QUARTET -- THE HAYDN PROJECT: String quartets by Haydn, including Quartet in F minor Op.20 No.5, Quartet in D major Op.64 No.5 `The Lark', Quartet in D minor [...]

CECILIA BARTOLI -- GLUCK ITALIAN ARIAS. Bartoli; Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin (Decca 467 248-2). The arias on this outstanding disc were composed between the late 1740s and mid 1760s, [...]

SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2; Cello Concerto No.1. Andre Previn, Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma; New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra/Bernstein, Ormandy (Sony Classical SMK 89752). Sony Classical's mid-price Theta series [...]

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy: Kirov Orchestra/Valery Gergiev (Philips Classics 468 035-2). Named as Record of the Month in November's Gramophone, this release makes the [...]

Gorillaz emerged as undisputed kings of the online jungle at Music Week's second Online Music Awards after capturing the website of the year award and three other prizes. The Parlophone [...]

ASV HAYDN: String Quartets Op.64, Nos. 1-3. The Lindsays. (CD DCA 1083). Out now. KORNGOLD: Fairytale Pictures; Violanta; Prelude and Carnival; Schauspiel Overture Op.4; Tales of Strauss, etc. Bruckner Orchester [...]

DONIZETTI -- THE THREE QUEENS: Anna Bolena; Maria Stuarda; Roberto Devereux. Sills, Verrett, Burrows, Plishka, etc. (Westminster 471 227-2 (7CD)). Beverly Sills is the star of the show in three [...]

R STRAUSS: An Alpine Symphony; Der Rosenkavalier -- First waltz sequence. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Ashkenazy (Ondine ODE 976-2), An Alpine Symphony was completed in February 1915, its monumental score calling for [...]

VIVALDI -- LATE VIOLIN CONCERTOS: Including Concerto in C major RV177 and Concerto in E minor RV273. Carmignola; Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon (Sony Classical SK 89362). Giuliano Carmignola's Sony Classical debut [...]

FREDDY KEMPF -- CHOPIN: Four Ballades; Grande Polonaise Op.22; Polonaise-fantaisie Op.61; Fantaisie-impromptu Op.66. Kempf. (BIS BIS-CD-1160). Chopin's Ballades pose a stern test of the concert pianist's stamina, technical precision and [...]

UNPUBLISHED VERDI: Soloists; Orchestra e Coro Giuseppe Verdi di Busseto/Pedretti. (Arts Audiophile Series 47574-2). The Arts label offers an unusual addition of Verdi rarities to mark the composer's centenary year. [...]

FEEL THE SPIRIT: Music by John Rutter, including Feel The Spirit and Birthday Madrigals, and George Shearing's Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare. Melanie and Wayne Marshall; Cambridge Singers; BBC Concert [...]

MONTEVERDI: Selva Morale E Spirituale. Cantus Colln; Concerto Pallatino/ Junghanel. (Harmonia Mundi 901718.20). In 1613, Monteverdi was appointed to the prestigious post of maestro di cappella to the Venetian ducal [...]

The essence of hip hop for 20 years Even in 1981, budding music industry entrepreneurs found it hard to believe that a self-funded, independent record label might emerge from nowhere [...]

Just three years ago, upstarts such as Napster and MP3.com posed a genuine threat to the traditional music industry. Now, after all the court cases and injunctions, Toby Lewis surveys [...]