Independent Label Market to mark 10 years with return to London

Independent Label Market has announced that it will mark its 10th anniversary by returning to London this summer. Started at Soho’s Berwick Street market in 2011, ILM has hosted 68 events all over the world and has partnered with more than 600 independent record labels throughout the UK as well as in Paris, Berlin, Rome, …

Mark Esmanic Gives Us the Acid House Track We’ve Been Asking For

What is going on dance music fans? Today we are showing off an acid house track released by up and coming producer, Mark Esmanic, titled, Rise and Fall. The track features everything you’d find in a club, acid house banger, including laser like sound designs, celestial FX’s and of course, the 4 to floor drops …

“NFTs: The Pitch” Competition Enlists in Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, 3LAU & More

A new online competition “NFTs: The Pitch” features a star-studded cast of crypto and NFT heavyweights allocating $1 million in funds for the next big idea. Think “Shark Tank”-meets-NFTs. Sound Ventures, a venture capital fund founded by Guy Oseary and Ashton Kutcher heads up the competition, seeking out those “who are innovating with NFTs whether it’s …

3LAU, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, More to Judge Shark Tank-Like NFT Funding Contest

As the NFT mania rages on, a new Shark Tank-like competition is set to debut with a number of high-profile judges. NFTs: The Pitch is a go following a $1 million funding round by Sound Ventures, a major venture capital firm founded by Guy Oseary and famed actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher. Both execs will appear …

Mark Ronson docuseries ‘Watch the Sound’ to launch on Apple TV+

Mark Ronson is set to host a new docuseries for Apple TV+, titled Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson. The six-part show will examine “sound creation and the revolutionary technology that has shaped music as we know it”, according to a press release. Watch the Sound hails from Oscar-winning producer Morgan Neville, and will debut on …

GOT7’s Mark Tuan says Justin Bieber inspired his upcoming music

GOT7’s Mark Tuan has named Justin Bieber as one of the inspirations for his upcoming music releases. In a recent interview with Billboard, the American-Taiwanese K-pop singer said that he’s currently working on new music, following the release of ‘One In A Million’ with Sanjoy. While Tuan didn’t reveal any details about the songs or …

ARMNHMR deliver melodic anthem ‘One Sided’ with Mark Klaver, Miles Away

by: Austria Masim Mar 22, 2021 ARMNHMR have released a heartfelt, melodic collaboration titled “One Sided,” with Mark Klaver and Miles Away via Dim Mak Records. The new single marks the return of the LA-based producers to Steve Aoki’s label after releasing their euphoric six-track EP A Thousand Dreams in December 2020. Speaking on the …

KRYDER brings major new vibes with MARK ROMA on ‘Pleasure or Pain’

Kryder worked it up big last year, with his artistic district extending to releases on Axtone, Spinnin’, and Musical Freedom. Echoing the sonic nature of his latest though, the spoils of his first for 2021 have gone to Black Hole, with the Dutch giant inking ‘Pleasure Or Pain’. Since ‘K2’, Kryder’s been able to genre-surf …

Big Hit, Universal say new joint venture will mark “a new chapter in music history”

Big Hit Entertainment (BHE) and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced a joint venture that they say will “mark the beginning of a new chapter in music history”. The announcement was made in a global press conference stream earlier today (February 17) by UMG chairman and CEO Lucian Grange, BHE chairman Bang Si-hyuk, Interscope Geffen …

New cover of Viola Beach’s ‘Swings And Waterslides’ to mark fifth anniversary of the band’s death

A new cover of Viola Beach‘s track ‘Swings And Waterslides’ has been recorded by a collective of Warrington musicians to mark five years since the band’s death. Rising indie four-piece Viola Beach and their manager Craig Tarry were killed in a car accident on February 13, 2016 while travelling through Sweden. To mark the fifth …