The famed Eurovision Song Contest takes place this Saturday (18 May) and Manchester record label Ostereo claim to have exposed a secret formula for success.

Event follows 2017’s evening on the EU Copyright Directive

London DJ and producer Hannah Holland on electronics, club culture and worshipping at ‘the church’ of Berghain…

Jane Dyball, chief executive of the MPA Group of Companies, has urged the government to ‘be gentle with us’ following last week’s Brexit vote.

Anita Awbi spends time with folk icon Shirley Collins, and others thriving in her wake, to learn how our ancient musical vernacular is inspiring songwriters today…

Foundry's artist development lead Naomi Zeichner talks to M Magazine about nurturing independent artists, working with Arlo Parks, and the development programme's most global cohort yet.

‘Play music that you love madly with your best friends, get your other mates to come to your shows and have a brilliant time’ - Danny and the Champions of the World tells us how new acts can win in 2017…

‘We’ve just tried to write music we can have fun with’ - disco-boogie-house-soul crew Crazy P take us behind the scenes of new LP, Walk Dance Talk Sing…

Anonymous author, artist and activist The Secret DJ discusses the overlapping consequences of COVID, Brexit and the cost of living crisis and their impacts on the live music industry.

In the run up to Mental Health Awareness Week, M sat down with Birmingham rapper Fox to discuss his ongoing battle with his mental health.

Songwriter and ASCAP President and Chair Paul Williams has done more than most to champion and reinvent pop, joining the dots between Daft Punk and The Muppets. Paul Sexton quizzes the recent Ivor Novello Award winner on a musical life least ordinary…

George Clinton, Annie Mac and Steve Angello are among the first wave of speakers announced for the Ibiza International Music Summit 2014.

PRS for Music’s Robert Ashcroft welcomes the latest development in the European Union’s plan to reform copyright legislation as a step forward in protecting creators.

PLAYING IT FOR LAUGHS: Mitch Benn is the musical lynchpin of BBC Radio 4's The Now Show, and the king of the pastiche pop song, having sent up everyone from Elton John to Coldplay. Here, he talks to M about the ongoing perception of comedy songwriting as a bit naff and how he’s been able to carve a niche in that. He also questions British audiences’ aversion to home-grown comedy songwriting talent...

Mark Paytress considers the trend for musical ‘nowstalgia’, which is blurring the lines between then and now.

Check out our profiles of the most exciting new talents to sign up with PRS for Music over the last quarter including the Fat White Family and Hooton Tennis Club...

We learn ace artist Nadine Shah’s secrets to songwriting success from the recent UK Music Music Industry Careers Day…

Eric Goulden is Wreckless Eric, a singer and songwriter who has enjoyed almost 40 years as the self-confessed biggest name in the UK’s underground scene. We find out how he wrote his most loved song (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World.

Cro Cro Land festival launches in Croydon on 6 April, aiming to bring guitar bands back to the birthplace of punk music, and celebrate the area’s rich musical history, with gender equality at the heart of everything it does. Here’s an introduction to some of the tantalising line up...

Ian Watt, one half of the electro-pop duo, talks us through his favourite tracks - from <i>Drowning in Berlin</i> by The Mobiles to Nina Simone's <i>My Father</i>. Tune in to his top picks.

As Kickstarter prepares for its UK launch find out what fan funding sites can do for you.

The The’s Matt Johnson gives M a rare interview on how he wrote pop classic Soul Mining as it hits 30

The pioneering folk musician talks us through the songs that have shaped his life.