Did Technology Kill Your Local Music Scene?

The internet forever changed how we consume and create music as individuals… but what about as groups? Anyone from the pre-internet music era will surely tell you stories of how particular. Continue reading

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5 Life Lessons For The Unsigned Musician

Here a long-time struggling unsigned musician shares five lessons he has learned throughout the years regarding positive self-development, perseverance, and understanding the proper motivation for pursuing a career in an. Continue reading

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Releasing A Slow Burn Album: Oh Wonder Tries A Different Approach

With many foretelling the death of the conventional album format, artists like Beyonce and Frank Ocean have been trying different stunts like dropping surprise visual albums, but by releasing one. Continue reading

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REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review

In this weeks flip back through music industry news and info from the past seven days, including ABBA's virtual reality reunion project, Twitter's misguided purchase of Vine, Kanye's fear inducing. Continue reading

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Kanye West Threatens To Boycott Grammys If Frank Ocean Isn’t Nominated [VIDEO]

Be careful, Kanye. The first rule of negotiations is to never make a threat that the other side was hoping would happen anyway. 

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WED. BRIEF: Apple’s Music Profits Up • Pandora Stumbles • MP3tunes Lawsuit Resurrected • More

WEDNESDAY 10.26.16 Music Business News From Around The Web  Music was a bright spot for Apple even as Pandora users fell slightly.  Updated continuously under our More News tab

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Pandora Rebrands With New Logo

Pandora is revving up it efforts to encourage users to transition from free to paid as it preps its on demand streaming music service for launch later this year.  Along. Continue reading

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Musician Detained For Scalping Wristbands To His Own Show, Misses Gig

Oakland-based roots musician Fantastic Negrito missed his performance at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, as he was being detained for allegedly scalping artists wristbands at the time. 

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Ticketers AXS And Veritix To Merge

With Live Nation owned Ticketmaster the big dog in the fight, you can expect to see more consolidation in the ticketing space.  Today's LN's chief concert promoting rival AEG made. Continue reading

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Music Licensing Groups Say Homeowners Associations Playing Music At The Pool Is A Public Performance

Sometimes it feels like these copyright collections groups are in some kind of insane competition in which the winner is whoever can make the dumbest claim about something being a. Continue reading

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