It's been pretty hard to miss talk of the credit crunch these last few weeks and as it continues to worsen it persists on taking up more column inches than the sex lives of the Manchester United squa...

Over the past fortnight I've received a relative smörgåsbord of emails from a whole gallimaufry of artists (Pompous-2-Yorkshire translation: a reet load) regarding their arguably ill-thought-out entry...

This week's blog may leave a few unsigned/independent artists a tad disillusioned and I apologise in advanced for any panglossian bubbles that I may burst as today we're going to talk about the charts...

And so my summer of festivals 2008 comes to a grinding halt and I can honestly say I'm a changed man. Before, I was aware that I didn't "get along" with camping per se but now, I'm absolutely positiv...

Your favourite media regulator and mine, Ofcom, issued its latest report on good old Blighty's media habits this month with the following things being unceremoniously and unsurprisingly revealed (than...

The biggest news in the music industry recently is the announcement that 6 ISPs have agreed to help the good old music industry (and movie industry) in their ongoing, ever fruitless battle against pir...

Bit of a trivial one this week but hey, it usually sparks a bit of a debate when I'm having a beverage with some friends so let's hope it stirs some emotion in you lot… Last night I had to review Ali...

The more media savvy readers out there will have noticed the good old PRS being mentioned in the press recently thanks to their apparent 'bullying' of small businesses around the country.   Mecha...

It's hard being an artist isn't it? Trying to stand out of the crowd and all that. Wondering why so many other artists get picked up or have success when you mope about from fruitless gig to fruitless...

Whilst searching for inspiration regarding potential subject matter for this week's blog and I noticed that on the BBC News Entertainment homepage the 4 top music stories were directly related to arti...