Online streaming offers benefits for consumers and the companies providing the service, but thus far it hasn’t been paid off for artists.
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The rock promoter thinks festivals are on the way out. But he couldn’t be further from the truth.
Not all children move through the same range of processes when they compose music – but those processes, in themselves, nurture important human qualities.
Stanley Donwood has been designing Radiohead’s artwork since 1994. Ahead of his retrospective at Sydney’s Carriageworks this month, we consider the role of art in creating a band’s visual identity.
For all the harm that austerity may have done, it looks to have galvanised music from the margins
Eurovision is popularly heralded as the song that unites Europe, but recent controversies about gender, social justice and human rights paint a different picture.
There are those who believed that BB King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar player, including the man himself.
A lot happens when computer science and pop music collide.
Tansy Davies’s opera raises serious questions about the appropriation of horrific events into art works.
As Record Store Day shows, there’s a lot more to the vinyl revival than simple nostalgia.
Bowie and the Bible have long been tied together in the work of director Ivo van Hove.
The latest streaming service is artist owned, which sounds great unless a group of 16 “top-tier” artists receive most of the royalties.
Social media has responded to the news with unbelievable force. So what is it about this band that produces such a reaction?
We all know the rock adage of “live fast, die young” but is membership of different music genres associated with different risks of early death and different causes of death? Surprisingly, yes …
A jury in the US has awarded damages of nearly US$7.4 million to Marvin Gaye’s family in a lawsuit against singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams. Aren’t we missing the point of copyright?
Björk may be a musician but she has a much broader aesthetic than music, as her influences attest.
The gumleaf is a wind instrument that comes with a steep learning curve. Today we celebrate the 80th birthday of one of its key proponents, Roseina Boston.
The most interesting thing to come out of the awards was Madonna’s tumble – and this says a lot.
Aspects of Whiplash are implausible – but it does reflect the real and insidious bullying culture that exists in music education.
Much of the creative work we value – whether it’s films, music, novels, or TV shows – requires a significant input of time and resources. The established method for raising the resources to fund such work…
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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