Books Music News Wellbeing Nile Rodgers and Radiohead among contributors to new mental health and touring book by Tom Disalvo The Music Industry Manual will hear from experts on the mental toll that comes with overwhelming touring schedules. Nile Rodgers and Philip Selway of Radiohead are among the contributors to…
Music News Gibson’s Ukraine Relief is auctioning guitars played by McCartney and Slash by Tammy Moir Gibson’s Ukraine Relief Auction has some famous friends chipping in, with contributions from legends McCartney, Slash, The Rolling Stones, and Margo Price. The iconic instrument brand Gibson has reached out…
Clocked Features What the music industry can learn from game marketing by Luke Saunders Gaming giants have some of the biggest release launches on the planet. Often spread out over a year or more, game developers are the ultimate hype builders, trailer teasers, and…
Features Disco Demolition Night: why your taste doesn’t matter and never will by Luke Saunders On a fateful evening in 1979, some 50,000 people rushed Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, to exterminate the vermin that was disco. At least that’s how Chicago shock jock and…
News Watch the moment Steve Vai and Nile Rodgers first laid down the Halo 2 theme by Happy Despite the hundreds of hours I threw into the game, it was only today that I learned the heavy metal version of the Halo theme (premiered in Halo 2) had Steve Vai and Nile…
Lists News Rusty Thorpe’s 10 best moments of Bluesfest 2018 by Happy Words by Rusty Thorpe, Marketing Manager of Byron Bay Bluesfest. Loved your article – the 10 best moments of Bluesfest. I agree and disagree, because I also have ten of my…
News Check out this legendary demo of David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ by Happy Back in 2018, producer Nile Rodgers unearthed a previously unheard demo of the 1983 David Bowie hit, Let’s Dance. The demo was released 35 years after its making, in celebration…
Interviews Music Bluesfest have outdone themselves yet again with an unbelievable first-round lineup by Happy Each year, Bluesfest has soared further and further into the stratosphere, calling in the world’s biggest acts time and time again. In 2018 it seems Bluesfest Byron Bay will continue…
News Need more Nile Rodgers in your life? The Chic founder and Daft Punk collaborator has just earned his own 3-part doco by Happy While Nile Rodgers saw a recent stratospheric bump in popularity thanks to his collaboration with Daft Punk on their 2014 record Random Access Memories, the guitarist has been kicking around with…
