Greek tragedy: Orchestra plays emotional farewell
Members from the Greek National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus played a stirring final performance as state broadcaster ERT closed.
Adele and the billionth UK single download
The UK record industry has reached a new milestone with the one billionth download of a digital single.
Robbie launches tirade at Suede and 90s guitar bands
Robbie Williams has launched a tirade against Britpop stars Suede as he took aim at the group's frontman Brett Anderson.
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Greek tragedy: Orchestra plays emotional farewell
Members from the Greek National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus played a stirring final performance as state broadcaster ERT closed.
Read the full storyMumford & Sons bassist out of hospital
Mumford & Sons bass player Ted Dwane has been discharged from hospital, the band have announced.
Dwane required surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain earlier this week.
The band posted on Facebook: "It is with great joy that we can announce that Ted has been discharged from hospital and is on the road to a full recovery.
"The surgery went well, and the excellent medical team helping him are very pleased with his progress. He has been nothing short of heroic in how he has handled the whole ordeal."
The band have cancelled the remainder of their US shows but are due to headline Glastonbury at the end of the month.
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Jack White gets name in lights after saving venue
A legendary music venue in Detroit has been renamed the Jack White Theatre after the former White Stripes singer saved it from being shut down.
Jack White paid $142,000 (£92,798) to clear the debts of the concert hall at his hometown Masonic Temple.
The Temple's Cathedral Theatre, a venue he has played many times and where his mother worked as an usher, has now been retitled in his honour as thanks for his generosity.
Detroit Masonic Temple Association president Roger Sobran told the Detroit Free Press: “Jack’s magnanimous generosity and unflinching loyalty to this historic building and his Detroit roots is appreciated beyond words.”
Daft Punk top the UK album charts for the first time
Dance Duo Daft Punk have repeated the success of their number one single Get Lucky by topping the UK album chart for the first time in their 20 year career.
Their fourth studio production, Random Access Memories, became the fastest selling album of the year, selling 165,000 copies during its first week.
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In April the house outfit got their first ever UK number one single with Get Lucky, featuring N.E.R.D's Pharrell Williams and Chic's Nile Rodgers.
The single is also 2013's biggest selling single so far, selling more than 711,000 copies since it went on sale six weeks ago.
IMS to look at the dance music 'boom' in the mainstream
Over the past year, dance music has become a regular fixture at the top of the UK Singles Chart with frequent hits from the likes of DJs/producers David Guetta and Calvin Harris.
Most recently, Duke Dumont hit the number one spot with "Need U" and the continued success is prompting some to ask, will 2013 be the year dance music takes over the commercial charts?
This is a topic that will up for discussion next week, when hundreds of music movers and shakers head to the Baleriacs for the International Music Summit in Ibiza from 22-24th May.
Titled Beyond The Boom Boom!, the event will look into the international expansion of electronic music and how the genre is crossing into mainstream culture.
Speakers at the event include co-founder BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, Fatboy Slim, 80s dance pioneer Jean Michel Jarre, and Groove Armada.
Daft Punk make it to Number One in UK charts at last
Veteran electronic duo Daft Punk have scored their first-ever UK number one single with much-awaited funky comeback track Get Lucky.
After shooting to number three just 48 hours after the single went on sale last week, the Frenchmen's collaboration with Pharrell Williams and Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers managed to knock Rudimental's Waiting All Night Ft Ella Eyre off the top.
The pop duo, which formed in 1993, had previously only reached number two with club anthem One More Time in 2000.
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Apple celebrates decade of iTunes
Apple was today hailed for pioneering a "listening revolution" as it prepared to celebrate a decade of iTunes.
The music store, which started out more than a decade ago with 200,000 songs, reached its 25 billionth download earlier this year.
Since its launch on April 28 2003, iTunes has accrued a catalogue of more than 35 million songs and has around 435 million active account-holders across the world.
On average, more than 15,000 songs are downloaded every minute and according to the technology website Pocket-lint, it would take more than 140,000 years to listen to every single music download available through the famous store.
Gennaro Castaldo, of HMV, said the music store - along with the iPod - had "undoubtedly" played a major part in changing the way consumers discover and listen to music.
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ATP Festival to end after winter finale
Long-running music festival All Tomorrow's Parties is to end its popular seaside events featuring an array of indie acts and curated by cult figures.
The events at Camber Sands in East Sussex will come to a close later this year after organisers decided it was time to "move on".
ATP will stage two events later this year before finally bowing out.
The holiday camp festivals - based at Pontin's - have been a popular draw as artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Simpsons creator Matt Groening have chosen line-ups over the years.
The finale will take place over on November 22-24 and November 29 to December 1.
Adele and the billionth UK single download
The UK record industry has reached a new milestone with the one billionth download of a digital single.
Read the full storyRobbie launches tirade at Suede and 90s guitar bands
Robbie Williams has launched a tirade against Britpop stars Suede as he took aim at the group's frontman Brett Anderson.
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