Kanye West Declared Not ‘Traditionally American’ Enough For Trump Inaugural Events

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Slants vs Supremes: Band Issues Post-Court Appearance Statement

Indie band The Slants took their trademark fight to the Supreme Court this week. Despite being together for more than a decade, the group has been unable to get their. Continue reading

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FRI. BRIEF: $30M Music Messenger App Returns • Jones vs Jackson Lawsuit Proceeds • Trump vs Nat’l Arts Endowment • More

Friday 1.20.16 Music Business News From Around The Web  Does the Music Messenger logo (left) represent $30 million just flying away?  Updated continuously under our More News tab

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MusicFirst Coalition Pens Open Letter to Congress

Music industry advocacy group MusicFirst has sent an open letter to Congress setting out their legislative priorities.  Members of the coalition include the Recording Academy, the RIAA and the American. Continue reading

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Pandora Tops YouTube, Spotify In 2016 Music Listening, As Streaming Beats Radio For First Time

Pandora, YouTube and Spotify combined to capture 72% of all streaming music listening in 2016. And for the first time ever, enjoying music via streaming was more popular than listening. Continue reading

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6 Types Of Spotify Playlists That Will Feature A New Song

In the age of streaming, landing your music on a playlist is one of the best ways to be discovered as an artist. Here we look at the six different. Continue reading

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INgrooves’ Bryan Mead Named SVP Artist and Label Relations At PledgeMusic

Bryan Mead has been named SVP Artist and Label Relations at PledgeMusic. He will lead the New York headquartered company’s west coast team.

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Musicians Sues Distributor E1 Direct Deal With SiriusXM

In a piece of legal news with wide implications for the music business, indie string trio Time for Three and S'More Entertainment have filed a class action lawsuit against Entertainment. Continue reading

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Live Nation Is Helping Employees With Student Debt

Live Nation has joined a growing list of companies such as Fidelity and PriceWaterhouseCooper helping its employees to pay down student debt. 

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Apple’s GarageBand, Logic Pro X Get Major Updates

Apple's Garageband and the many digital audio toolkits that followed helped revolutionized the music industry by offering affordable and usable music creation and recording tools. This week, Apple pushed out. Continue reading

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