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Why Coldplay’s boycott of Spotify hurts musicians, labels and fans

Whilst Coldplay have their reasons and it would appear their label EMI are not best pleased, I feel that the decision to not stream the album on popular services hurts everyone; the band, label, and fans.

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Home of Metal Exhibition Highlights

I spent a couple of hours at the Home of Metal exhibition in Birmingham today…

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Dum Dums: The Reunion

Monday night was a blast from the past. My friend and former Dum Dums frontman Josh Doyle played in Birmingham on his first UK tour since the Dum Dums split up and he moved to the USA in 2003. From

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Swine Flu Bands

A couple of weeks ago, as  the world was gripped with Swine Flu fever (forgive the pun!), a great game emerged on Twitter. Feeling somewhat disillusioned with the mainstream media’s attempt at convincing us we were “all going to die”,

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My Morning Jacket

My Morning Jacket from Tugboat Productions on Vimeo. I recently found this mini-documentary about My Morning Jacket (a band that I’ve been in love with for several years now) – which coincided with the release of their ‘Celebración De La

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