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Sound City Takeover at Zandari Festa to feature the best emerging artists from Britain

Sound City Goes To Zandari Fest

The festival will officially be hosting Sound City that consists of six British acts/artists delegates from the UK, including Atlas Wynd, Coquin Migale, I Set The Sea On Fire, She Drew The Gun, Sugarmen and Elle Exxe. They are set to perform at South Korea’s most popular indie festival from Sept 30 to October 3. Set to take place at Freedbird in Hongdae, Seoul, the event co-hosted by Sound City will see more showcase of artists from Britain this year. Other music organisations involved in the partnership include PRSF, Generator, DMF Digital, BIMM,…

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Scorpions, Alleycats, and Zainal Abidin headlining Rockaway Malaysia. Photo Courtesy of Rockaway.

Butterfingers Makes a Comeback at Rockaway

What felt like eternity was released in a moment after Livescape released one of the finest lineup the country has ever seen to date. There’s no holding back as the headliners picked for the weekend would probably going to make a one impressive show. It covers over 20 local and international acts including Scorpions, Wolfmother, Butterfingers, Wings, Third Eye Blind,…

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Believe Digital Receive $60 million of TCV Capital Investment

Believe Digital, an independent digital distributor and service provider for artists and labels worldwide, has announced its acquisition of the French indie label and publishing house – Naïve. According to Believe, its 25 staffers will be retained to continue with the building of its diverse catalogue including Classical (Jean-François Zygel, Laurence Equilbey and Accentus), Jazz (Baptiste Trotignon, Hadouk Trio), Music…

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Hardwell Guest Mix on Diplo and Friends

Diplo’s BBC Radio Show Features Hardwell

Hardwell who started out as a part of the Dutch movement Bubbling Beats returns to his roots with a mix that combines musical flavours like moombahton, r’n’b and UK grime. Tracks from Gyptian, Mr. Vegas, Popcaan and UK favourite Lethal Bizzle are all packaged into the hour long mix. Hardwell’s mix is set to broadcast this Sunday, 28 August at…

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Peking Duk to perform at Livescape It's The Ship

The Livescape Group to Host David Hasselhoff on It’s The Ship

Set to depart from the Marina Bay Cruise Centre in Singapore on November 4, this four-day and three-night floating music festival will be crossing international waters on the straits of Malacca to Penang, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site – an island located on the northern west coast of Malaysia known to be a food heaven and its growing art…

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nternational Music Summit [IMS] Shanghai 2016 reveals its first batch of speakers, including Skrillex, Alesso, pop star – Jolin Tsai, Pete Tong and many more.

Budweiser Sponsor STORM Festival, IMS Announce Alesso as Speaker

International Music Summit [IMS] is expanding its Asia-Pacific arm, collectively, unifying IMS Singapore and IMS China in a two-day conference in Shanghai. Its Shanghai organiser A2LiVE, has recently revealed its first batch of speakers for the electronic music conference set to take place September 29-30, 2016. After two successful years leading the electronic music industry conference with IMS Singapore and IMS…

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Yescom Entertainment Release Pentaport Rock Festival Lineup

Pentaport Rock Festival seem to be doing something right. They have been rocking away since 2006 and have yet to take a back seat in the festival scene in South Korea. Join the festival taking place from August 12-14. Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival is about to celebrate its 11th year, making it Korea’s oldest and best-known summer rock festival. Held…

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Split Works organises Shanghai's Concrete & Grass Festival featuring eclectic music from Chinese artists.

Split Works to present Concrete and Grass Music Festival

Set to take place on 16 & 17 September at Shanghai Rugby Football near Wuzhou Avenue, the organiser has already released the line-up of more than 60 artists set to perform across 4 stages. According to the organiser, the lineup has everything from flamboyant J-rock and Cantonese hip-hop to big-bass Bollywood and American slacker rock. Some of the top lineups include…

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Euphorics Events Books Steve Angello to perform at Invasion Jakarta

Euphorics Events Confirm Steve Angello, Markus Schulz for Invasion Jakarta

Jakarta’s growing population and its electronic music fans are in for an electrifying treat – a full LIVE festival show to watch some of the world’s most prominent and rising stars from the DJ scene deck out tunes that brought them international recognition. Electronic music festival organiser and promoter Euphorics Events sets a tougher bar this year challenging the norm…

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Vevo and Warner Music Group (WMG) announce partnership

Streaming News: Vevo Partners With Major Label Warner

Vevo and Warner Music Group recently announced a licensing agreement that will see premium videos from Warner Music Group artists distributed on Vevo owned and controlled properties, including Vevo.com and the Vevo mobile app. The partnership follows Vevo’s announcement of an ambitious company-wide reboot designed to lay the foundation for long-term growth. The plan consists of major initiatives across three…

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