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Top tips for getting the most out of social media

Social media is imperative to new acts growing their fanbase, but there are lots of pitfalls to be avoided and money to be saved.

Sharing music online: when do you need digital distribution?

Artists must assess where their career is going before working out how to share their music online, a digital music panel at The Great Escape has said.

Phil Taggart’s slackers' guide to the music industry

The BBC radio DJ, bassist and author shares what he's learned from Biffy Clyro, Run the Jewels, Charli XCX, George Ezra and the leading business brains about cracking the music industry.

HYYTS In Session - Bullet

Rising alt-pop duo HYYTS are back with an ‘In Session’ version of their single Bullet, and M has the premiere…

Erland Cooper

Patience

'Everything to learn and nothing to prove': Patience, aka Roxanne Clifford, on her debut solo LP and life after Veronica Falls...

8 for The Great Escape

The 2019 edition of The Great Escape takes place next week from Thursday 9 May to Saturday 11 May, for this week’s playlist we hand over to those in the know for their top tips of who to catch down in Brighton…

Guy Chambers

‘Never give up. I know that might sound a bit general, but it took me a very long time to have success. I was in my thirties when I became successful.’ Says hit songwriter Guy Chambers.