Category: Press Releases

Music news written by various media sources

Sister Sledge Headline Crate Diggers

Discogs, the worlds 3rd largest online music destination after YouTube and Spotify, have announced that Sister Sledge will be headlining the Crate Diggers Festival in association with Audio-Technica at the Brighton Centre Saturday 11th May.

Crate Diggers is the largest international festival series in the world dedicated to vinyl collecting and music merchandise with hundreds of vinyl sellers, record labels, record shops, vinyl enthusiasts and world class acts performing to over 4000 attendees.

Key Features of Crate Diggers:

Hundreds of record shops, Vinyl sellers and record labels selling a selection of records, turntables, tapes and music merchandise new and old. Entrance to the record fair is FREE TO ATTEND.

Lineup includes including Sister Sledge, David Rodigan, General Levy, Zion Train, Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the heart, JFB and more. Tickets required for the live shows.

Sister Sledge

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Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences

Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences
This press release is from City of London Police

Steve Mather, 63, of Beaufort Street, Rochdale, Lancashire, has been sentenced to eight months suspended at Manchester Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to copyright offences for illegally creating and distributing karaoke tracks online without permission. Digitop have estimated their loss to be £485,000, while Sunfly Karaoke Ltd’s loss is projected to be £29,593.50

In 2015, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) received a referral from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) when one of their members, Digitop Ltd, became aware of online accounts called KaraokeRG and Karaokekid. These accounts were making torrented karaoke tracks available to the public without permission from the rights holders, Digitop and Sunfly Karaoke Ltd.

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Dame Colette Bowe, Chair of ABRSM Governing Body honoured with a music scholarship award in her name!

Dame Colette Bowe has had a music scholarship award named after her to mark her successful tenure as Chair of ABRSM’s governing body

Dame Colette Bowe

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ABRSM releases new piano syllabus with a broader range of styles than before

ABRSM has just released their new Piano syllabus which will come into effect in January 2019.


                           
The 2019 & 2020 syllabus lists cover a breadth of styles and an attractive, varied range of music, including pieces from the teaching canon, recent favourites, popular tunes as well as new commissions. Some highlights are Close every door (Andrew Lloyd Webber) in Grade 1, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) in Grade 3 and Lullaby Lullaby (for Edna Trident Hornbryce), one of the new commissions, by Raymond Yiu in Grade 8. As in previous years, there has been a 100% refreshment of the repertoire lists. There’s a vast amount of piano repertoire available and ABRSM always aims to bring a balance of familiar and new pieces to the syllabus, whilst maintaining consistency in both quality and standards. Specially commissioned items feature on Grades 3, 4, 5 and 8 and there are other contemporary options at all grades.

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Spotify makes its stock market debut

Spotify makes its stock market debut

Press release as received by Jem Girl at the Piano from Hargreaves Lansdow

Spotify launched directly onto the New York Stock Exchange today, with the shares initially changing hands on the public market for $166 a pop, significantly higher than the $132.50 which was the highest price previously paid for the shares in private transactions.

The company has chosen the unusual route of a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange, so we can probably expect a bit of a choppiness in the price throughout the remainder of the US trading session.

Laith Khalaf, Senior Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown:

‘Spotify is floating on the stock market at a pretty inauspicious time for the tech industry, which has been rocked by the Facebook data scandal and now potentially faces greater regulation as a result. Donald Trump’s tweeted attacks on Amazon don’t help lift sentiment towards the sector either.

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