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• Forbidden Fruit and festival headliners

  Forbidden Fruit shows its hand and raises some interesting questions about festivals and headliners

• The stuff from the weekend: Beyonce, Oxegen, My Bloody Valentine

  News and views on Beyonce’s Irish dates, Oxegen’s return and My Bloody Valentine’s new album “mbv”

• New Music: The Royal Concept, George Maple, Josef Salvat

  Here are the latest New Music selections from the On The Record column in tomorrow’s edition of The Ticket. Please feel free to share tips below or check out all past New Music selections here. The Royal Concept Experienced bunch …

• Dutch gold: Eurosonic 2013

  If it’s January, it must be time for the annual trip to Groningen. Over the last couple of years, the Eurosonic music festival has become the best possible start to the year in the binge-gigging business. Those seeking fresh new …

• Gongarama! There’s a gong for (nearly) everyone in the audience

  What’s that noise? That, readers, is the sound of a lorry dropping off On the Record’s gongs at the front door. It’s all about looking back in medialand at the moment – looking forward comes next week – so a …

• Full stream ahead: Spotify vs everyone, the latest

  It seems we’re destined to write about Spotify every other week. But the Swedish music streaming service, particularly the details of how much it pays artists, is the story which has dominated the music business beat in 2012. The latest …

• Live and dangerous: the health and safety issues around live shows

  There’s one kind of story which is sadly becoming all too familiar on the live music beat. The recent fatalities at a Steve Aoki show in Madrid and a Linkin Park show in Cape Town show that the health and …

• Spotify (finally) launches in Ireland

  It seems as if we’ve been talking about Spotify on this blog forever. In fact, the Swedish streaming service, which launched in its home country in October 2008, first entered the OTR lexicon in February 2009. Since then, Spotify has …