27th Mar 2013
Evolution Emerging Announced!

Generator are very pleased to announce the lineup for this year’s Evolution Emerging which will see over 40 artists taking over 9 venues in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle. With a record 500 track submissions from emerging North East artists, we’ve taken over extra venues to squeeze in as much regional talent as possible.
25th Feb 2013
BRIT Awards: are you bored?

The BRITS effect is rippling through the charts this week with Emeli Sandé back up to Number Two with ‘Our Version of Events’ and Ben Howard seeing sales of his album triple overnight- but the big question seems to be if such a super slick and predictable ceremony was actually entertaining, despite achieving the highest TV viewing figures in a decade.
10th Dec 2012
BBC Sound Out 2013

It's that time of year again- you can forget about goodwill to all emerging artists and prepare to scream, shout, argue, agree, have a good moan at the state of pop or simply recline into indifference- The BBC’s Sound of 2013 longlist has been revealed.The list is compiled from votes for three favourite new acts from a total of 213 tastemakers including journalists, DJs and bloggers, with the winner announced in early January next year.
8th Oct 2012
Glastonbury sells-out, sets new record

Tickets for Glastonbury next year have sold-out in record time, with 140,000 going in 1 hour and 40 minutes after opening yesterday (Sunday October 7) at 9am.
17th Aug 2012
Pussy Riot jailed for ‘Punk Prayer’

In an explosive twist in the story that has dominated international music news over the past couple of months, three members of Russian Punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
11th Jul 2012
Pinteresting Developments

Users of rising social media site Pinterest can now ‘pin’ or embed tracks from Soundcloud onto their page in addition to sharing video, but does the site have the potential to be a useful tool for artists?Some artists are already using the site as a kind of digital scrapbook, sharing photographs and other visual artefacts with fans. The potential for content to ‘go viral’ as the now ominous sounding corporate cliché goes is quite similar to Twitter, with other users able to ‘repin’ what you post.
11th Jul 2012
Prince: The Universal Sigh

“The Beautiful Ones, they hurt you every time” sang Prince on the third track of his seminal soundtrack LP Purple Rain. It seems that Universal are learning that lesson the hard way this week with the news that the famously fractious pop star has exited his publishing deal with the company.Prince manager Kiran Sharma said in a statement: "We are pleased to announce that Prince and Universal have reached a mutual agreement in terminating their long standing publishing deal”.
13th Jun 2012
The Park get shopped

Following the release of fourth album ‘The National Health’ this week, Maximo Park are set to break some kind of world record by playing five in-store gigs in one day this Saturday.The band will play at various independent record stores across the North East including Newcastle’s RPM and Stockton’s ‘Sound it Out’, the subject of a recently acclaimed documentary made by Jeanie Finlay.
31st May 2012
Endless awards

Breaking news: another round of music awards. The Online Music Awards has launched a new category for emerging acts, with the finalists revealed in September.
16th May 2012
The Great Escapade

On Saturday, Generator served up a musical feast from dub-soul beats to Hyde & Beast at The Great Escape, bringingthe sound of the North East to Brighton Beach.The Genwas on hand to report onGeordies on someone else's Shore, a South Shields songstress on the South Coast, and musical Mackems at Hipster-by-the-Sea.