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The release of two box-set collections next month will bring together most of Amy Winehouse‘s back catalogue along with various other bonus features. Related news:…

Sam Huddleston for Live4ever The UK’s record shops might have been forced to keep their doors locked for a reasonable chunk of the year so far, but vinyl collectors have still been buying up the classics according to the Official Charts Company. Related news:…

Sam Fender chats to Live4ever at SXSW (photo: Paul Bachmann / Live4ever Media) Sam Fender has released his cover of Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black which was originally recorded earlier this year for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge series. Related news: Sam Fender teams up with Noah Kahan …

Dave Grohl onstage with the Foo Fighters (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media) Dave Grohl performed a cover of The Beatles‘ classic White Album track ‘Blackbird‘ during the ‘In Memoriam’ segment of last night’s (February 28th) 88th Academy Awards which remembered, amongst others, the late icon David …

Liam and Noel Gallagher, Oasis (Photos: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media) Renowned documentary director Asif Kapadia is to work on a new film charting the rise of Oasis, reports Deadline. Related news:…

Pete Doherty has revealed how the memory of Amy Winehouse was a big inspiration during the creation of The Libertines‘ new album ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth‘ – despite the fact that the late singer was apparently never a fan of his songwriting. Related news: The Libertines preview All Quiet …

  Pete Doherty is supporting the Amy Winehouse Foundation with a special tribute single in honour of the late singer. Related news:…

Award winning documentary filmmaker Asif Kapdia and Universal Music are getting together to make a documentary on Amy Winehouse’s short life and career. The project will be shopped around at the Cannes Film Market next month by Focus Features International, a division within Universal. Related news:…

Pete Doherty has revealed he plans to use lyrics written by Amy Winehouse before her death last year on his forthcoming solo album. Related news:…

The posthumous Amy Winehouse album ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures‘ has topped the UK chart today on its first week of release. Elsewhere, Coldplay‘s ‘Mylo Xyloyto‘ holds strong at #8, and Noel Gallagher‘s debut solo album ‘Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds‘ is a non-mover at no.14, while outside the Top 20, The…

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker has said he believes the conduct of the UK’s tabloid press, a subject of close scrutiny during recent months, played a part in the death of Amy Winehouse last summer. Related news: Yard Act continue build-up to release of Where’s My Utopia? with We Make Hits…

The video for ‘Our Day Will Come‘, the opening track from Amy Winehouse‘s forthcoming posthumous album ‘Lioness: Hidden Treasures‘, has been unveiled today and can be viewed below. Related news:…

One of the producers behind the forthcoming posthumous Amy Winehouse album ‘Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures‘ has defended the project, and insisted the album will be ‘faithful to her legacy’. The Guardian reports Salaam Remi as telling a listening party in the Soho district of London that the record is…

Posthumous tracks left behind by Amy Winehouse when she tragically passed away last summer have been worked into a new album by producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, and will be released later this year. Entitled ‘Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures‘, the record will be issued on December 5th, and…

A drug overdose has been ruled out as a possible cause of Amy Winehouse‘s death after the late singer’s family released a statement today (August 23rd) which confirmed no traces of illegal drugs were found in toxicology results. Inevitably, after Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London flat late…

Stars from across the musical landscape have been paying tribute to Amy Winehouse, who was found dead in her London residence on Saturday afternoon (July 23rd). Producer Mark Ronson, who played a leading role in the superb 2006 album ‘Back To Black‘ and also collaborated on his own album ‘Version‘,…