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Sound Service: publishers and streaming in 2017

Anita Awbi spends time with digital experts and strategists across the publishing sector to gauge how streaming is shaking up their business.

By Paul Nichols 12 Apr 2017

Bad Breeding

Agit-punk quartet Bad Breeding's new LP Divide is a fast and furious postcard to post-Brexit Britain. Frontman Christopher Dodd makes us a collage to explain its motives...

By Anita Awbi 6 Apr 2017

Nina Whiteman

Nina Whiteman is an innovative composer whose creative spark is derived from unusual stimuli. We catch up with her to find up what's in store for her premiere in Scotland next week...

By Anita Awbi 6 Apr 2017

Oly Ralfe

Eccentric songsmith Oly Ralfe has been flirting with the stranger ends of folk, country and indie for well over a decade. Now he's turned his hand to a solo instrumental piano record...

By Anita Awbi 6 Apr 2017

Julian Cope: Into the Wild

Jim Ottewill goes head on with mystical pop soothsayer Julian Cope…

By Paul Nichols 4 Apr 2017

Fiona Bevan

Singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan spent several years perfecting her craft on the London gig circuit before hooking up with Ed Sheeran in 2011 to pen a number one hit for One Direction. Here, she tells us how it changed her life...

By Paul Nichols 4 Apr 2017

Playlist power: streaming success in 2017

Superstar albums aside, consumers love choice, writes Rhian Jones on the rise of playlists and their growing power to shape artist, label and publisher success.

By Anita Awbi 3 Apr 2017

Mike Heron, Incredible String Band

Incredible String Band's Mike Heron on setting up the UK's first folk all-nighter, travelling to Woodstock with Ravi Shankar and how British beatniks have changed since the sixties...

By Anita Awbi 31 Mar 2017