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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 [...]

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 [...]

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;

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.

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.

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.

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

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 [...]

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. 

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. [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]