- Music Week is delighted to reveal the incredible Arlo Parks as the cover star of our latest issue. With her candid new record My Soft Machine on the horizon, Music Week joins the Mercury Prize-winning indie star to talk mental health, breaking big and making a difference. On top of that, we also get insight from her manager, Ali Raymond of Beatnik Creative and Transgressive Records co-founder Toby L. This is the behind the scenes story of one of the most important records of the year.
- When it comes to The Music Week Interview, meanwhile, we have something very big lined up as co-presidents Ed Howard and Briony Turner head up an Atlantic Records UK special. Howard and Turner are on a hot streak, as proven by their label winning Record Company Of The Year at the Music Week Awards in 2022. Just over three years into their tenure, Music Week meets the long-serving Warner pair – plus Atlantic’s EVP Austin Daboh, GM Liz Goodwin and MD/president of promotions Damian Christian – to discuss their artist-first revolution and the state of UK talent...
- Also in the features section, it’s almost a year since Pete Black left the major label plugging world behind to join Ben Cooper’s radio revolution at Bauer Media Audio, and the company’s new director of music is loving life on the other side of the fence. Music Week meets the executive to talk breaking talent, delivering what the industry wants and ringing the changes.
- Plus! Earache Records may have started 2023 with notable chart success, but the label has been firmly on the up for a while now, bucking industry trends to penetrate the mainstream with heavy alternative music. UK label head Tim Bailey tells Music Week how he and the team have done it and talks rock, risk taking and rewards...
- Finally in this month's features section, we deliver a special report on the thriving neighbouring rights sector. It may not be the flashiest part of the music industry, but it stakes a bold claim as one of its most important and to prove just that, we gather a selection of the key players to debate the fall-out from the 2020s NR boom, talk international expansion and look ahead to the future of a sector that just won’t stand still...
