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Prince’s Purple becomes a standard

17/08/2018

Pantone Color Institute and The Prince Estate have created a Pantone standardised custom colour based on Prince’s custom-made Yamaha purple piano which was originally scheduled to go on tour with the performer before his untimely passing at the age of 57. Prince’s association with the colour purple was cemented in 1984 with the release of the film Purple Rain, along with its Academy Award-winning soundtrack featuring the eponymous song. While the spectrum of the colour […]

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Radio still beating streaming for listeners in UK according to Ofcom report

17/08/2018

Ofcom, the UK’s communication regulator, has produced its first annual Media Nations report. The report reviews key trends in the television, audio-visual, radio and audio sectors with analysis of traditional broadcasting and the take-up and impact of subscription on-demand and streaming services. In addition to a UK-wide report and an interactive report, there are separate reports for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Media Nations 2018 Key findings Take-up of superfast broadband and connected televisions is […]

JD Sports launches music streaming platform

16/08/2018

JD Sports launches a multi-stream music entertainment platform, JD-X, available to customers in-store and via its mobile app. JD-X offers 21 bespoke streaming channels with specific playlists and genres, including the main Live channel featuring DJs, guest artists and other exclusive content. The 21 channels focus on genres and activities popular with the JD audience, such as UK Reppin’ – featuring tracks from the stars of the UK Grime and RnB scenes. There are other […]

Desert Island Discs and other BBC podcasts now on Spotify

15/08/2018

Spotify has added hundreds of BBC podcasts to its UK streaming service. Archives containing decades’ worth of Desert Island Discs episodes have been uploaded together with Josie Long’s Short Cuts and Brian Cox and Robin Ince’s Infinite Monkey Cage. The BBC was one of the first podcast creators in the world when it made Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ downloadable online in 2004. Today, the BBC podcast library boasts hundreds of programmes across thousands of episodes and caters […]

Vancouver Island Library adds to its music streaming services

15/08/2018

Vancouver Island Regional Library adds over 2 million tracks to its digital eResource area bringing a range of music genres from around the world to anyone with a VIRL library card. VIRL have added the Naxos Music Library to its other audio and video resources all freely available to Library members. Naxos Music consists of the following four libraries: Naxos Music Library: More than two million tracks of various music genres: classical, blues, jazz, folk, […]

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Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music launch new classical music playlist

13/08/2018

Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music have partnered to launch a new classical music audio and visual playlist that will highlight recordings from the iconic label’s 120-year history. The Deutsche Grammophon playlist launched on Friday, 10th August with a media conference at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg, Austria, where DG artists Trifonov, Villazón, Abdrazakov and Gregson performed and later appeared on a panel discussion about music curation in the digital age. Trifonov’s performance was recorded and will be added to his […]

11 Dance Sub Genres from Spotify to enjoy

12/08/2018

To celebrate the recent Tomorrowland festival in Belgium, Spotify’s Dance editor Austin Kramer has posted a blog showing the diversity of dance music that the platform has to offer. ‘The electronic music genre umbrella has to be the largest musical classification. It’s crazy how so many descriptors were accepted throughout its evolution,’ says Kramer. ‘House, rave, club, EDM, dance, electronic are all part of the culture. The semantics all dissolve to one thing: how it […]