Downtown Music Services COO, Ben Patterson, answers MBW’s questions
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Category archives: Interviews
NFT company Serenade just raised USD $4.2 million. What’s it going to spend it on?
Max Shand is the latest interviewee in our Trailblazers series
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‘It’s one thing to make beats, but you’ve got to be able to make records.’
Grammy winner Malay talks working with Frank Ocean, how classic rock formed his first musical love and whether the music industry is close to implosion
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Geoff Taylor: My Manifesto
BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor outlines five goals and measures he would like the industry to adopt, including a ‘BRIT School for the North’, environmental responsibility and unity across sometimes fractious sectors…
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‘What I’m trying to do is shine a spotlight on brilliance and add what I can.’
British producer Fraser T Smith features in the latest instalment of MBW’s World’s Greatest Producers series
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‘Being straightforward and honest, not skirting around the issue, always yields the best results – and an understanding artist’
Adam Alpert on the rise of The Chainsmokers, the potential of Dove Cameron, hard work, good times and the future of the industry
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Troy Carter’s Venice is launching an NFT-gated members’ club – offering artist services, studios, and more
Troy Carter talks about the Venice Music Collective and shares his thoughts on the future of Web3 and NFTs in the music industry
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‘Music has always been my safe haven, it kept me off the streets and it kept me dreaming big.’
Swizz Beatz discusses growing up in the South Bronx, his approach to production, working with artists and much more besides.
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‘In country, I feel like the magic of songwriting is still very apparent and very dominant.’
MBW profiles country music writing royalty Ashley Gorley as part of our World’s Greatest Songwriters series
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‘Your ambition for an artist has to match their ambition for themselves.’
Lanre Gaba was promoted to one of the most important positions at Atlantic Records – Co-President of Black Music – earlier this year. She’s paid her dues to get there.
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