Pandora is getting closer to an IPO. (Barron's) Live Nation has bought the remaining equity stake in Irving Azoff's mega-management firm Front Line. (press release pdf)  EMI: Is the music company going. Continue reading

Join the growing Hypebot tribe on Twitter at (@hypebot), where 9,597 11,270 people are following us. In addition to regular posts, we also tweet to poll readers, get tips, quotes. Continue reading

What are the most popular music websites in 2010? See here. .Music answered the piracy concerns brought up by the RIAA. This is a two part interview about hyperlocal music. Continue reading

Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv, has created a fascinating music website heat map; it depicts estimated web-based music consumption in the U.S. in 2010. The visualization is based. Continue reading

Talib Kweli relased his latest, Gutter Rainbows, as digital-only. "The CD is dead," Keli tells MTV News. "The music industry doesn’t exist….when you have records that are being played 3,000. Continue reading

Mid-January, the RIAA screamed "Flame On!" and decried the .music initiative – one that hasn't even officially launched – as potential piracy havens, or the enemy. The trade group challenged. Continue reading

This is part two of my interview with Jordan Stepp. She's Editor in Chief of Athens Music Junkie. Stepp started writing about the music scene in Athens, GA in 2008. Since. Continue reading