Month: April 2012

Apple and Chinese environmental group to audit factory due to pollution concerns

Apple and a Chinese environmental group for the first time plan to jointly audit one of the company’s supplier factories in China, in what could lead to more open inspections of Apple’s suppliers for pollution concerns.


Claudia Garcia On The Importance of an Internship

Claudia Garcia, Manager of International Exploitations for Universal Music Group Latino, gives advice to anyone wanting to enter the music business. She believes that the best way to start out is through an internship in order to gain experience in a business environment. Claudia also makes the point that people who are passionate are the…


VH1 Behind The Music: Nas (Preview)

Get More: Nas, Behind The Music VH1 will take us behind the music of Nasir this Wednesday. In a sneak peek of the short documentary, we get a look at his early childhood in Queens and the beginning of his career.


Hole’s Eric Erlandson says Kurt Cobain recorded a full solo album before he died

Former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson has revealed that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobainhad recorded a whole album’s worth of solo demos before he died in 1994, which no-one has ever heard. Erlandson, who was speaking to US TV station Fuse, said that Cobain was heading in “a really cool direction” and that the solo album could have been the singer’s ‘White Album’. Speaking about…


Interview: Kendrick Lamar Tells His Story & Talks Paying for Music w/ DJ Skee

Fresh off his Coachella performance, Kendrick Lamar drops by the Skee Lodge for an exclusive interview with DJ Skee. KL discusses his new single “The Recipe”, and tells the story of his journey with TDE and trusting Dr. Dre with his career. KL says “[my goal is to] change the face of what people see…


Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald: 2010 ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo (Master Session)

Producer and writer for dozens of huge hits, Dr. Luke spoke with the crowd at the 2010 “I Create Music” Expo about his process, successes and about using technology to his advantage.


April 17, 2012 News: Image of Spotify’s official iPad app leaks, launch is ‘getting closer’

While Spotify offers a native iPhone app, the company still doesn’t offer one for Apple’s iPad. According to a photo recently published to the web, however, that may soon change. A Swedish technology consultant posted the first image of what is said to be a beta version of Spotify’s official iPad app. The image was…


Ebro Darden Talks With The Daily News About Radio Ratings

The radio ratings dropped yesterday and according The Daily News, Hot 97 has the biggest listenership among 18-34 year olds. Heres a clip from the article: WQHT (97.1 FM) regained the lead among listeners 18 to 34, leaping past WHTZ, WLTW and hip-hop rival WWPR (105.1 FM). WQHT program director Ebro Darden said connecting on…


Arcade Fire interview (2 videos below)

Great interview revealing the true colors of the band Arcade Fire. Catch the second part of the video after the jump!


Michael Beinhorn On Technology in Music

Beinhorn started his professional career as a musician, playing keyboards in Bill Laswell’s Material during the 1980s. He got a chance to work with jazz icon Herbie Hancock, producing Hancock’s Future Shock album, which contained the massive hit single “Rockit” (co-written by Beinhorn and a Billboard #1), regarded one of hip hop’s seminal hits. In…