Music News Monthly August 2022

Featuring Black Eyed Peas Live at LooseFest 22. The Cadillac Three, SEAGIRLS, The Big Moon, Interview with Joel Corry and much more.

Music News Monthly features live reviews of Sea Girls, and Michael Kiwanuka as well as reviews of the latest releases from Motor Sister, and Wolfsbane plus a 9-page Meadowlands special.

Featuring Live reviews of Coldplay, The Cadillac Three. New music from Phil Lewthwaite, Crawlers, Dohny Jep, Seagirls, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and much more.

Music News Monthly features live reviews of Skunk Anansie, Paul Weller, and Olivia Rodrigo. We review the latest music from SeaGirls, Craig Gould, P-Mad, Ghost, Chasing August, See You In Reno, and many more.

A bumper edition of Music News Monthly featuring our review of Skid Row live in Newcastle with a huge photo special. Plus music news and reviews including Sam Fender, Liz Cass, Uriah Heep and much more.

This issue features live reviews of rising star Holly Humberstone, the mighty Saxon and legendary rockers Lindisfarne. With exclusive photos of their recent gigs.

March issue of Music News Monthly features reviews of the latest releases from Frank Turner, Vaquelin, Dave Bainbridge, Saxon, William Poyer, Thunderpetz and more. Plus live reviews of The Stranglers and Kawala with music news from Brian May, Florence + The Machine, and so much more.

This cutting-edge textbook examines contemporary media business models in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation. AI has dramatically impacted media production and distribution, from recommendation engines to synthetic humans, from video-to-text tools to natural language models. "AI is really the change agent of the media industry," answered a natural language generation model when AI was ‘asked’ about the subject of this book. "It will open incredible opportunities." This book seeks to explore them. The media is examined through four sections. ‘Principles’ maps business models and the key tools of AI. ‘Platforms’ covers distribution channels in Games, Streamers, Social Networks, Broadcast and Digital Publishing. ‘Producers’ covers the engines of content-making, including Scripted, Entertainment, Factual, Content Marketing, Creators and Music. Finally, ‘Pioneers’ covers emerging sectors of Podcasting, Esports, the Metaverse and other AI-driven developments. Then in each chapter, a standard value creation model is applied, mapping a single sector through development, production, distribution and monetisation. Diverse case studies are analysed from India, Nigeria, South Korea, South Africa, France, the Netherlands, the US, the UK, Denmark and China – around creative entrepreneurship, revenue models, profit drivers, rights and emerging AI tools. Questions are provided for each case, whilst chapter summaries cement learning. Applied and technology-focused, this text offers core reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduates studying Media Management – or the relationship between Entertainment, Media and Technology. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides and an Instructor’s Manual with further exercises and case studies.