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Pink Floyd have won a digital royalties High Court action against their record company EMI.

The band challenged the idea that EMI had the right to unbundle their albums and sell them online on a track-by-track basis (as is the norm with iTunes and other such online retailers).  It has been reported that EMI has been ordered to make an interim payment of ...

One of the most anticipated Irish albums of 2010 will be released in May.

Villagers, the new musical venture from ex-The Immediate man Conor J. O'Bren, are to release their debut album entitled 'Becoming A Jackal' on 14th May on Domino Records.  Having already impressed just about everybody who's seen the band live, this is sure to ...

Legendary record producer Phil Spector has filed an appeal against his second-degree murder convinction.

Lawyers for Mr. Spector filed a 148-page brief last Wednesday detailing grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct which entitle their client to a new trial.

The 70-year-old producer is in prison serving a sentence of 19 years to life for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, ...

Some 160 music fans were arrested outside a Metallica concert in the Colombian capital Bogota at last week. 

Police, who were expecting trouble at the bands first concert in the city in over a decade, were called into action when thousands of ticketless fans attempted to break through barriers to see their rock metal heroes. 

Facebook was awash with ...

Renowned music producer and performer T Bone Burnett won himself an Academy Award to add to his fine collection of Grammys. 

Alongside Ryan Bingham, a rodeo star-turned-singer/songwriter, the pair won the Best Original Song category at this year's Oscar Awards Ceremony for the track 'The Weary Kind' which features in the new Jeff Bridges film 'Crazy ...

With tickets for Ireland's biggest music festival about to go on sale, promotors have turned up the heat with two big names added to the line-up.

Arcade Fire and Fat Boy Slim will both take to the stage as headliners for Oxegen 2010.  The Canadian rock outfit are putting the finishing touches to a new album while the Brighton ...

Mark Linkous, the man better known to many as Sparklehorse, committed suicide on Saturday 6th March in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Linkous's music was a surreal and haunting blend of indie-rock and alt-country which saw him rise to cult status in the music world.  Over the years he collaborated with many stars including Tom Waits, Vic Chesnutt, PJ Harvey, DJ ...

One of Ireland's Eurovision winners will represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. 

Niamh Kavanagh, who ran away with the Eurovision back in 1993 in Millstreet with "In Your Eyes", has won the honour of representing us again, this time in Oslo next May. 

On The Late Late Show last Friday, five songs were performed ...

In a special broadcast hosted by Paul McLoone, Today FM exclusively revealed that the judging panel of media professionals named Adrian as the man who made the Best Irish Album of 2009.

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Hip-hop producer and rapper Guru has suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday (28th February).

The 43-year old, who shot to fame as one half of Gang Starr, is due to undergo surgery in a New York hospital.  The news was confirmed by a phonecall from DJ Premier, his Gang Starr partner, in a phonecall to Sirius radio's Hip-Hop Nation ...