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Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon has been reissued and remastered several times over the years, meaning that trying to make the 50th anniversary edition suitably different was always going to be a huge challenge.
Pink Floyd in Australia, digital goodies from Sigur Rós, Stem Player works with J Dilla’s estate, and Squid’s interactive game.
New and noteworthy campaigns from Pink Floyd, Apoki, Dice and Cari Lekebusch.
How much would you pay for Pink Floyd’s back catalogue? To buy the rights, we mean: this isn’t a story about the band’s latest all-bells-and-whistles box-set.
I Found That Evanescence Rare: band gamify pre-saves Pre-save and follow-to-win competitions are ten a penny these days. Even though they are now very much a marketing failsafe, it does not follow that the basic idea has to be abandoned as a cliché. There is still space to experiment within the pre-save parameters. Building up […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our coverage of the Chinese music industry in recent years, it’s the importance of artists fully engaging with China’s social media landscape: from […]
Lead: If you aren’t making or appearing on a podcast, do you actually exist? Even with DSPs and record labels investing in them heavily and building whole podcasting divisions, there is still the issue of licensing music for them that is holding back their creative potential. Yet beyond that knotty problem, the sector is still an […]
Pink Floyd have launched a new streaming playlist on Spotify and YouTube called ‘Syd, Roger, Richard, Nick and David – An Evolving Pink Floyd Playlist‘. The clue to the playlist’s nature […]
Lead: Don’t call it a comeback. Actually, DO call it a comeback. Fans today not only expect all the music in the world to be instantly available, they also expect every pop star to be available at all times. But musicians need to step away from the limelight and off the promotional treadmill every now […]
As part of the promotion for their The Later Years album and box-set, Pink Floyd have just launched a number of augmented reality filters for social media. Rhino UK commissioned […]
You don’t have to be a young whippersnapper to launch your own music podcast in 2019. Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour have joined the pod party, […]
It’s tempting for music fans to get over-excited about the latest sales figures for vinyl in the UK: 1m units already this year, up from 780,000 in 2013, and the […]
