Strange Music co-founder, Tech N9ne was interviewed on Revolt TV’s Revolt Live today [March 24]. While speaking with co-host DJ Damage, Tech N9ne—who is the top selling independent Hip Hop artist in the world—offered advice to aspiring artists. “It starts with the music,” Tech N9ne said. “People want to hear good music. After you do […]
Forget Exile On Main Street or Zen Arcade — the most brilliant album available on Spotify may be Vulfpeck’s new Sleepify, 10 tracks containing 30 seconds of silence apiece. The laid-back Los Angeles funk-rock band has asked fans to repeat-stream the album all night in an attempt to pile up enough fractions of pennies to […]
Beats Music was signing up an average of 1,000 new subscribers a day through its first month, according to the sources cited by Bloomberg BusinessWeek this morning. BusinessWeek’s contacts claimed that 70% of the 750,000 trial users generated by AT&T’s 30- and 90-day trial promotions for the service — in addition to the 28,000 signed […]
The best moment on Mastermind, Rick Ross’ much-delayed sixth studio album that was finally released today, happens relatively early on. During the intro of track three, “Drug Dealers Dream,” an automated voice, belonging not to Ross but to someone who probably only listens to Ross when he’s on Kanye West songs, says, “Please hold while […]
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This week, Pharrell‘s “Happy” becomes the highest-charting Oscar-nominated song in more than a decade. The tune, which is nominated for best original song at this year’s Academy Awards, jumps from No. 8 to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. It was written by Pharrell for the animated film Despicable Me 2. […]
One of the most important things you can do to prepare for the year ahead is to create a budget for your musical activities. Having a budget will give you a much clearer look at where you want to go financially, how you’ll get there, and what your progress is along the way. We’ve broken […]
There are millions – possibly billions, possibly even kazillions – of songs on Spotify. And some have never been played. Forgotify is an amazing website that plays songs at random from Spotify: the only requirement is that they’ve never been played before. Not even once. And sure, so far we’ve had a lot of jazz […]
014 NAMM Show: Sony Creative Software has released Sound Forge Pro Mac 2 and updated SpectraLayers Pro [WIN/MAC] applications. These products can be purchased separately or together in the new Audio Master Suite Mac bundle. Sound Forge Pro Mac, now in Version 2, now features: batch processing, refined metering for discriminating mastering and broadcast professionals, […]
J. Cole also explains what his role with Dreamville will allow him to do. J. Cole’s Dreamville imprint made headlines yesterday (January 27), when it was announced that it would join Interscope Records in a partnership. Cole spoke with Forbes about how the partnership works. “We provide the artist, the direction, the guidance, the music, […]
Four years ago I wrote an opinion piece in Billboard warning of the cash-flow crisis that would hit when consumers realized the massive value proposition that streaming subscription services offer. It may have taken longer than I expected, but it is firmly upon us. Despite all the negative press about the low per-stream rate, Spotify […]
