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6th Feb 2013
Artrocker takes tablets

Independent music mag Artrockerhas stopped the printing presses and will issue its first tablet-only publication at the end of this month.The London based magazine, founded in 2001 will now be available through Google Play and Amazon App Store on Android following a soft launch on the iPad in June 2012.
6th Feb 2013
HMV Tweets: Barking mad

HMV employees facing redundancy took to Twitter (#hmvXFactorFiring) last week, creating a live mini-blog of 190 confirmed job losses after the high street brand went into administration.
31st Jan 2013
Grim news for Radio One?

The latest Rajars are out- huddle around your digital radio and tune in, as 6Music edges ever closer to 2 million listeners and things turn slightly grim for Radio One. The Gen is a DAB hand at radio stats!The latest figures for Q4 of last year reveal that BBC 6Music had a record number of 1.89m people tuning in each week, a 16.7% in the quarter and a 31% increase year-on-year.
31st Jan 2013
Nature documentary

Indie label Fierce Panda are joining forces with Document films and launching a Pledge Music campaign for ‘Charade: 20 years of Fierce Panda’, a film documenting the history of the label. They are asking for recollections of how fans first discovered the label that launched the careers of Placebo, Coldplay, Idlewild, Art Brut et al- So, do you remember the furst time?
30th Jan 2013
Sales up: a new ERA?

A positive music sales story- The Gen imagines that this is just what you need to snap you out of your mid-afternoon slumber and provide an antidote to the doom and gloom of the recent HMV collapse.
30th Jan 2013
Mills at MIDEM: The rights stuff

Beggars boss Martin Mills recently accepted an ‘Icon’ award at the MIDEM conference in Cannes, going on to criticise governments and politicians worldwide for showing a “lack of support” to the creative industries and stating that they have become obsessed with tech companies.
30th Jan 2013
Record Store Day cut vinyl in 2013

The organisers of Record Store Day have announced that this year will see a 10% reduction in special physical product releases, with BBC 6Music dedicating a day of programming to the celebratory day of independence.
23rd Jan 2013
HMV: Throw the dog a bone?

Restructuring specialist Hilco has taken effective control of HMV, buying off £176m of its debts after the group went into administration and bringing a glimmer of hope to the high street following a flashpoint week for entertainment retail in the UK.
23rd Jan 2013
Dotcom’s Mega launch

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom is back, with the music industry equivalent of The Godfather Part II- the outrageous launch of his new cloud storage and file-sharing platform- ‘Mega’.Referred to as “The Privacy Company: Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer”, Mega received 250,000 user registrations in the first two hours according to Dotcom’s tweets, going on to reach more than half a million in its opening 14 hours.
23rd Jan 2013
PRS deals the ACE card

The PRS For Music Foundation and Arts Council England (ACE) will launch the Music Industry Talent Development Fund this year, an initiative that aims to invest over half a million pounds in grants to emerging artists.The grants will be available to provide vital financial support to artists and bands in recording, writing, performing and touring projects, with an application process opening up in May and delivery handled by PRSF.