Retail group Virgin has announced the end of its internet music download site. Virgin Digital, launched in the UK two years ago, is shutting down its service in stages and will close completely on October 29. The move comes after Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson sold the group’s UK and Irish record shops to a [...]
September 30, 2007
According to the venerable Time magazine, MySpace is one of the worst websites on the internet. Named and shamed in Time’s recent “Top 5 Worst Sites on the Web”, the world’s most popular social networking site has become a haven for spammers and marketeers [heavens! - ed]. Other criticisms focus on poor programming and security [...]
September 29, 2007
Music is a sweet rain, That turns dying Autumn into Spring; No wall can hold back music, Music leaps across borders; Music knows no caste and creed, Music contains the whole universe;
September 29, 2007
Mixmaster Records re-opened for business as Bass Division on April 4, 2007. The Queen Street music store and recording studio runs from the premises previously occupied by Mixmaster.
September 27, 2007
Big Jolly productions/management was formed summer 2002 to assist rising bands secure live experience. Since then, Downpatrick, Co. Down based Big Jolly has moved to promote unsigned bands – for example, metal/hardcore/hip-hop act Acidtone - in Ireland, the UK and Europe.
September 26, 2007
Belfast based Escape Act [www.myspace.com/escapeact] – the year-old indie-rock three-piece tipped for mass adoration in 2008 – released debut EP Hot Air in April 2007 to megabytes of local music press acclaim and megaHertz of airplay across these isles.
September 23, 2007
Breaking News: Word reaches the newsdesk of UlsterMusic.com that Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers launch their new DVD, entitled “Still Burning”, with a live performance and signing on Tuesday, September 25 at 6pm at Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street, London., England. [nice of you to ignore Belfast, bread-heads - ed] more: http://www.slf.com
September 22, 2007
Billboard reports that the major recording labels are getting ready to launch the “ringle” which combines the (mostly defunct) CD single format with ringtones for mobile phones. Each ringle is expected to contain three songs – one hit and maybe one remix and an older track – and one ringtone, on a standard CD with [...]
September 20, 2007
Audio-ill, the Lisburn-based year-old independent record label “dedicated to promoting new original music from Northern Ireland and beyond…” presents four up-and-coming young bands from their growing roster at The Black Box from 8pm on Friday, September 21.
September 18, 2007
Richard Branson – the man who dared sue John Lennon – has jacked in the music retail side of Virgin’s various business interests and flogged his UK and Ireland Virgin Megastore chain to the incumbent management team. The stores will be rebranded Zavvi from later this year. Virgin sold the sister US chain last year. [...]
September 16, 2007
Union Square Music is one of the UK’s leading re-issue and compilations specialists. Based in West London, Union Square Music’s aim is to release good value high quality CD and DVD releases right across the musical and entertainment spectrum.
September 15, 2007
The HOTPRESS MIX 07 (Music Industry Xplained) is a course designed for those seeking careers in the music industry and in the music media. MIX 07 is a 12-week series of lectures (one-a-week) by top professional exponents from the Irish and international music industry and is aimed at those seeking careers in the music industry.
September 14, 2007
According to recent market research [PriceWaterhouseCoopers - ed] the Chinese entertainment and media market – including the music business – is expected to grow from $90 billion in 2007 to $137 billion in 2010. [China has even specified its own low-cost high-definition DVD format called CH-DVD, a "patent-lite" version of standard HD-DVD, in time for [...]
September 12, 2007
One Tyrone-based seller on eBay is asking £2000 (“BuyNow” – no bidding) for a package of 8 tickets to see Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band play the Odyssey, Belfast in December. The has been much recent negative press about Aiken Promotions‘ management of the sale of tickets for this over-subscribed concert. But that’s the [...]
September 11, 2007
You, dear reader, may now subscribe to receive the latest posts on UlsterMusic.com by the miracle of e-mail. Thus, a round-up of “most-read” posts (news, releases, stats) is despatched to opted-in mail-boxes across cyberspace every week- mainly on Mondays. What a stupendous idea, huh? Just type your given e-mail addy into the “subscribe box” located [...]
September 10, 2007
Apple - of Cupertino, Silicon Valley, California – has unveiled new iPods including a model with an iPhone-style touch screen and wireless Internet connectivity, refreshing the product line at a time when its digital media strategy is facing renewed attacks from rivals. Apple also introduced higher capacity versions of the original hard-drive iPod and added [...]
September 9, 2007
“Before MySpace, there was nothing”. Despite the clumsy user interface for adding user-generataed content (UGC), a fevered uncle Tom has created in his sweaty Una-bomber-style cabin a music-marketing machine that… [cut it out - ed]. So here’s the new new in band promotion dans cyberspace: Soundclick - http://www.soundclick.com/docs/WhatIsSc.cfm
September 8, 2007
Paris-based Ulster-born concert pianist Barry Douglas (pictured) founded Camerata Ireland in 1999 as chamber orchestra of Irish musicians “on a mission to match the best in the world“. Through touring the Americas, China and Europe, Camerata has developed a reputation for excellence and for creating a distinctive Irish string sound.
September 7, 2007
The Belfast & District Set Dance and Traditional Music Society has been providing tuition in Irish music and dance since 1991. Its aim is to promote and develop a knowledge and love of these traditional arts and to encourage participation from anyone who is interested in learning. The majority of classes and workshops are held [...]
September 6, 2007
Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti – he made his Ulster debut on the stage of Belfast’s Grand Opera House in 1963 as Lieut. Pinkerton in a production of Madame Butterfly – has died at his home in the northern city of Modena. The singer, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was only 71 years of age. [...]
September 5, 2007
* 144-page book * only available from UlsterMusic.com
September 4, 2007
Joe Echo <URL>, the alias for Castledawson singer-songwriter Ciaran Gribbin, has released 2-track single [uh? - ed] Personal Alcatraz for digital distrubution via iTunes, Playlouder, and 7digital.
September 3, 2007
SONY to end its Sony Connect service for music digital downloads in its own compression format known as ATRAC.
September 2, 2007
It’s up on UM [but where? - ed]: the dotcom bombshell that is Last.fm http://www.last.fm UM
September 1, 2007
The Harvest Time Blues Festival takes place in Monaghan Town from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th September 2007. For details of the headline acts, the free Blues Trail and participating venues, see http://www.harvestblues.com or e-mail harvestblues@eircom.netor phone The Market House on +353 47 38162
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