Category archives for: Music

GlobalFaction: Unifying Hip-Hop’s Voices of Dissent

In 2006 a London-based team founded a digital-media production house called GlobalFaction. The intention was to erect a platform — a soapbox — in a corner of the Internet on which conscious lyricists and artists could take a stand against today’s social and political climate. With GlobalFaction as their pedestal and the World Wide Web as their loudspeakers many UK rappers […]

Sheffield’s Time-Honoured Music Venue In Spotlight For Award

Sheffield’s longest standing live music venue is in the limelight after being nominated for one of the UKs most prestigious music awards, following enduring success.
The Leadmill, which celebrates its 31st birthday this year, has been nominated for a Live UK Music Business Award. The award is one of the industry’s most highly esteemed acclamations, the final […]

Death Cab For Cutie Set To Make History With You Are A Tourist Video Event

Death Cab For Cutie are set to make history tonight by being the first band to film the first ever scripted, single take video and air filming live.
The broadcast of the production will be streamed live by New Beats Media courtesy of Ustream and in Partnership with Atlantic Records, Bing And Redlaser.
Watch the live stream […]

Tug of War - New Single from Adie

Maltese singer/songwriter Adie has just released a new song called Tug of War. This single has been released with the notorious rapper Hooligan. Although Adie’s main focus is Pop, Tug of War was influenced from American music, mainly RnB and Hip Hop.
Tug of War was officially released on Facebook on the 12th September 2010 and has […]

Fighting With Wire - Announce UK and Irish Tour / With Exclusive EP

Northern Irelands finest Fighting With Wire have recently announced their UK and Irish Tour, they will be back on the road for their first tour in over a year as they prepare to unleash their new album Bones Of The Twilight in 2011, released on Atlantic Records. Fighting With Wire have also announced they will be […]

Frantic Jack Tour Announced

New Beats Media first came into contact with Frantic Jack earlier this year when both parties worked together on the free Inspiration — Ispiratio E-CD.
This E-CD was produced by New Beats Media and featured artists from around the world including Frantic Jack who included their single Vancouver. The song proved popular by downloaders and […]

Why do we accept the over compressed?

Image by Great Beyond via Flickr

Lets go back thirty years ago. It’s 1970 and Vinyl is king. It’s a musical format that is tangible, comes in various sizes and almost impossible to duplicate by the average person. People cherish their vinyl.
In the two decades that followed, Audio Cassettes appeared. People could listen to music on the go […]

It Might Get Loud

There can be few people who have not at least heard of Davis Guggenheim’s influential documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”. The Establishment often points to this work as an anthem and suggests that mankind is solely responsible for global warming and as such the common man/woman must submit to an unprecedented array of new taxes placed on every facet of life, and […]

Shakira's Gypsy — Smokin'

International superstar Shakira has been heavily in the news recently regarding her excellent humanitarian and charity work with Haiti and global education foundations. Shakira’s barefoot foundation has announced plans to construct a school in Haiti to aid recovery in the area. Shakira has also been appointed as the ambassador for the 1Goal:Education for all organization; helping […]

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