Peter Gabriel News

After 18 years Martha & The Muffins return with a new album on February 2nd with Delicate, their first new studio album on their own Muffin Music label.

Spotify's digital music service has been hailed as the future of online music. But can its business model hold up? Despite having spent less than A 5,000 marketing itself since its launch three years ago, Spotify is fast becoming a household name, pulling in the punters with an offer that looks too good to be true: all the online music anyone could ...

So says Peter Gabriel discussing the future of the music business.A There's no doubt the big business end of the music industry is in crisis, as the disruptive technology of broadband internet undermines the existing business model of the major labels.

Peter Gabriel ... 'Impersonating other artists should not be the only option.' Photograph: Carlo Allegri/AP When I blogged about the lack of women in the music industry , one manager claimed that this is because girls are less interested in who worked on a record than what the band looks like on the cover.

DESCRIBED as "one of the great English bands" by Peter Gabriel, Show of Hands will be heading up The Folk in the City celebration in Derby.

Marta Sebestyen: I Can See the Gates of Heaven ... One of Europe's finest singers has gone back to her roots.

Without any doubt, this album was ahead of its time! I'll first start with 'Games Without Frontiers.' This track perhaps is the best Electronic Pop track of the 1980s.

IT SEEMS inevitable that Steve Hackett will forever be described as the "former Genesis guitarist", even though the 32 years since he parted company with the famed prog rock outfit have overflowed with a wealth of solo projects and innovative collaborations.

Prepare yourselves, hopeless romantics: To commemorate today's 20th-anniversary edition Blu-ray and DVD re-release of Say Anything , Twentieth Century Fox will be "Mobler"-izng a veritable army of Lloyd Dobler lookalikes to descend upon New York City's Times Square later today, boom boxes outstretched and hearts worn proudly on their trench-coated ...

I really enjoy movie soundtracks - something Blog on the Tracks readers will know because we've built a couple of impressive lists already looking at favourite songs to match movie moments and actual instrumental scores.

It looks like James Cameron is going for the tight-lipped PR approach for Avatar, and the Todd Solondz school of misanthropy might be supplying one of its finest graduates for the next Spider-Man villain I'm a sucker for getting caught up in the hype for big blockbuster sci-fi movies that know exactly how to market themselves in order to look like ...

Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back .

Former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel will release his first album for seven years next year.

Have you seen The Wrecking's "In Your Eyes" video? I love the original by Peter Gabriel, the remake by Nichole Nordeman, and I'm officially adding this one by The Wrecking to my favorites list! The video is up for Gospel Music Channel 2009 Best Pop Video, and the guys would LOVE it if you could vote! Here's what they're asking: Thanks to all of ...

The show will link Canada's first space tourist on the international space station with events in 14 cities and five continents.

Rufus Wainwright performs at the Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia. The Beatles aside, pop and rock acts have built their reputations on their live shows.

I've just had a long chat with Steve Purdham, the chief executive and co-founder of we7.com , a music streaming service that you access via its website.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.: The rich circus showman who bought a $35 million ticket to the International Space Station said today it's been worth every penny - and more.

I know this choice is semi-blasphemy for other old Genesis fans, as this was in the early days after Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins had just taken over as lead singer.A A I like a lot of the old Gabriel-era work, but for me this was the band at its peak, still playing all of its original prog-rock work but with a little more polish and less, ...

A Russian spacecraft docked Friday at the International Space Station to deliver Canadian circus billionaire Guy Laliberte - dubbed the first clown in space - along with an American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut.