EMI Music

Glastonbury, the UK’s largest music festival, begins today in Somerset with a host of EMI artists to check out if you’re heading that way. Friday’s line-up kicks off the festival in style with Corinne Bailey Rae, Snoop Dogg and, what promises to be a dazzling headline performance from Gorillaz, all on the Pyramid Stage while [...]

The line-up for this year’s Glastonbury has been confirmed, featuring a number of EMI Music artists over the three day UK festival The famous Glastonbury Pyramid Stage will play host on the Friday to Priority Records Creative Chairman Snoop Dogg and Corinne Bailey Rae (pictured below performing earlier this year) and Slash and Norah Jones [...]

This Saturday, music fans in many parts of the globe might find some extremely cool stuff in store for them:  it’s Record Store Day!  Limited edition vinyl, free stuff and in-store performances will be happening in 18 countries beginning Saturday at thousands of independent record stores. As reported earlier, in the UK, Parlophone’s getting into [...]

Saturday April 17 is Record Store Day. Over a thousand independent record shops across 18 countries in four continents are taking place to highlight the contribution of indie stores to music. EMI is producing a series of special releases that will only be available through participating retailers. In the US EMI is releasing exclusive John [...]

Pet Shop Boys have announced five new UK  live dates this summer. The dates are: July 13 – Blackpool Empress Ballroom; July 19 – Brighton Centre; July 20 – Bournemouth International Centre; July 21 – Cardiff International Arena; July 23 – Newcastle Arena. Tickets cost £30 and are available from Live Nation. The band’s new [...]

Great news from the BRIT Awards nominations last night where EMI Music’s artists and albums picked up impressive 18 nominations. Our congratulations to them all – Lily Allen with a leading three nominations, Robbie Williams with two to add to his already confirmed Outstanding Contribution Awards, two for Empire of the Sun plus nods for [...]

Next month The Pet Shop Boys are releasing ‘Pandemonium’, a live CD and DVD recorded at London’s O2 Arena on December 21 and through one of their ‘Pet Tweets’ have unveiled the fantastic artwork – shown here below. The film of the concert was made by David Barnard, director of the Boys’ 2006 live film [...]

On December 14 (December 15 in the US) EMI will release a new Pet Shop Boys EP, ‘Christmas’. Tracks are: It doesn’t often snow at Christmas (new version) My Girl All over the world (new version) Viva la vida/Domino dancing My Girl (our house mix) ‘It doesn’t often snow at Christmas’ originally was an exclusive [...]

Congratulations to all of EMI Music’s artists who have been nominated for the upcoming Grammy Awards which will be presented in LA on January 31 2010. David Guetta (who you can see below with Estelle who sings the title track on his current global hit album ‘One Love’) has five Grammy nods and electrified the [...]