Just waiting to ruin your concert, or live gig, going experience, gig pigs…
Everyone there was into the band. These four people though – two guys, two girls – were getting under everyones’ skins. They were loud. Really loud. They knew every word too. I timed it to the second where someone turned around and [...]

Music photographers talk about working with iconic musicians such as U2, Bob Marley, REM, Jimi Hendrix, and Marianne Faithfull, and the stories behind some of their favourite photos.
We arrived at their hotel and introduced our­selves. There was a bit of a nervous ­”atmosphere” – after all, this was the early days of two cultures [...]

A series of infographics, part of on-going series, titled Charting the Beatles by Michael Deal, which dissects various aspects of the band’s output, from the keys they composed in, levels of collaboration when writing music, to their working schedule.

Some bands need to focus on performing their music rather than resorting to other methods of entertainment:
“This is something we just worked out backstage [cue huddled conference with the lead guitarist], how does it go again?” Nice try, but we’re not fooled – you said the exact same thing at the Frome Cheese & [...]

Bands and musicians represented as countries and grouped according to their genre.

What occupations might the Fab Four have taken had they have never formed the Beatles?
Meanwhile, Lord Lennon remains one of the most recognisable figures in British public life, although it is seven years now since he stepped down as an unusually sanctimonious Archbishop of Canterbury (catchphrase: “Nobody is more popular than Jesus”). And Paul [...]

This is the graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see.
What is the impact of illegal file sharing on the revenue received by musicians? In terms of recording revenue, very little. In terms of live performance proceeds, there has been a significant increase. The record companies – while their cut is down – [...]

The Beatles went on to record a twelfth album… in a parallel universe.
On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened to me. I came into the possession of a cassette tape containing a Beatles album that was never released.

Quite a few fonts that feature in band logos were created specifically for the task at hand, and in many cases only consist of whatever letters or characters were needed to spell the band’s name. That hasn’t stopped some fans from making up complete font sets based on these logos though.

This is the stamp collection rock fans have been waiting for, Royal Mail (the British post office) will be issuing a ten piece Classic Album Covers stamp set, featuring the artwork of ten iconic rock album covers, in January 2010.
For decades the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic [...]