Pandora has been under attack from musicians lately. Pink Floyd, for instance, blasted Pandora. David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven also claimed that his song got 1 million plays on Pandora and he only got $16.89. Michael Degusta at The Understatement decided to dig a little further into the Pan... Read more...
During Yasiin Bey‘s show last night at La Bataclan in Paris, he was joined by the Robert Glasper Experiment as his backing band. If that wasn’t enough, Bey brought out Kanye West to perform “Can’t Tell Me Nothin.” Glasper and his crew are some of the most talented working musicians tod... Read more...
Obviously, the digital revolution hasn't been very good for the music business. Not even apps like Spotify and Pandora are helping. Sure, Spotify and Pandora pay musicians every time one of their songs are played – but they don't pay much. Take cellist Zoë Keating, for example. In a blog po... Read more...
Twitter has just announced a new partnership with three music data services, The Echo Nest, Gracenote, and Rovi are, to help scale the distribution of Twitter account data for musicians for integration in consumer-facing apps. Via the pilot program, Twitter developers can now work with partners to... Read more...
FOR #CLASSICFRIDAY VOL. 13 #CLASSICONEHITWONDERS --> CLICK HERE [cf]js[/cf] Some one-hit wonders are the result of novelty songs during fads. Examples include Rick Dees’ "Disco Duck", related to the d... Read more...
When it comes to percentages, Jay-Z probably resides somewhere in the top 0.0001% of income earners. But one of the richest rappers (and people) in the world now says he'd gladly pay more taxes - that is, if it went to the right things. "Personally I wouldn't mind paying more taxes if it went... Read more...
The U.S. government seized the domain of a small but influential music blog a year ago under charges that look pretty bogus, then kept it under lock and key for more than a year, according to this completely outrageous story by Mike Masnick at Techdirt. Around Thanksgiving 2010, the Department of... Read more...
S/O to Hulkshare btw... On August 18, popular D.C. rapper Wale dropped a brand new freestylejust one day after he released his latest mixtape, The Eleven One Eleven Theory. Spitting over the instrumental for AZ’s 1995 hit, “Sugar Hill,” Wale took a moment to name-drop thos... Read more...
“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,” among other things an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States wit... Read more...