After a two year absence from the Christmas number one race, the X Factor will once again be battling it out to claim the festive top spot, the Official Charts Company has confirmed.

As part of M’s International Women’s Day curation, M Magazine Editor Maya Radcliffe speaks to Kate Nash about her meteoric rise in the music industry.

With Independent Label Market (ILM) on the horizon we hand over the playlist reigns to the wonderfully eclectic LEAF Label.

Author, activist and artist The Secret DJ writes an open letter to ‘Plague Rave’ DJs.

The Mercury Prize has overhauled its rules for 2016 to allow music fans to choose one of the albums on the shortlist.

Kate Wildblood speaks to DJ, producer and now award-winning composer Hannah Holland about the impact the LGBTQ+ community has had on her work and her forthcoming album, Tectonic.

ShaSimone, Ni’Sha, and Ariez Baby to receive Future Hitmaker Awards of £3,000, £2,000 and £1,000

This year's Hop Farm Music Festival, due to be headline by My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez, has been cancelled.

Bucks Music Group has signed self-described ugly pop artist Zand to an exclusive, worldwide publishing deal.

With 98 nominations in total across 13 categories, this is the highest number ever in a year, while RAYE breaks the record for most nominations in a single year with a total of 7 nominations for 2024.

‘The underground is more energised than ever’ - producer, DJ and NTS Radio jock Mr Beatnick tells us how it is in the dance in 2015…

The Music Show is an extraordinary, star-studded gathering of hundreds of key players in the Irish and international music industry – who all come together for a frenetic weekend of activities in the Royal Dublin Society (RDS).

The portal has been launched in response to the huge rise in livestreamed concerts as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

New portal allows easy licence purchase for those wanting to stage or host an online live concert or gig in the UK.

Girls I Rate has announced that ShaSimone, Ni’Sha, and Ariez Baby have been selected as winners of the 2021 #GETHEARD Future Hitmaker Competition.

‘I wanted to create discussions that I really wanted to hear, involving voices that I really want to hear from,’ says BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.

We pick the best moments from Rob Da Bank’s London Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF)…

‘This is the first really significant change in copyright law in decades’: Grammy Award-winning songwriter Paul Williams reacts to the passing of the Music Modernization Act.

Scottish post-rock group Mogwai have announced details of their new album, Rave Tapes.

British orchestras need assurances from government they can easily access the European market – their most important overseas territory – following Brexit, MPs have urged.

Kate Whitley is a classical composer who’s grasped the DIY ethic with both hands. Here, she gives us the inside track on Multi-Storey, her innovative concert concept, and explains what life's like as a classical music outsider.

Two classical music experts explain how the genre has come out from behind the ‘glass wall’ to fare well in 2014...