Month: June 2012

RZA The Man With The Iron Fists Trailer

RZA will make his directorial debut with his martial arts flick, The Man With The Iron Fists starring Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu and here’s a sneak peek.


ASVP Rocky Changes Album Release Date

Not so fast, people. After announcing a few days ago that his album would be released on September 11th, Rocky retracted his statement. According to him, he was joking about the date specifically, but still says the album will be ready in September. In the same interview, Rocky also talks about who he enjoyed working…


An Interview with Bruce Resnikoff, President of Universal Music

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Bruce Resnikoff is the President of Universal Music Enterprises, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group devoted to leveraging UMG’s catalog of recordings (the largest in the business) in a variety of markets, including traditional retail, direct TV sales, film and television licensing and specialty and nontraditional retail. Bruce Resnikoff…


Synthmagic Digital Love Child Kontakt Library Review

http://soundsandgear.com/synthmagic-digital-love-child-kontakt-library-review checking out the new Digital Love Child library from Synthmagic for Native Instruments Kontakt


Pensado’s Place : Into The Lair #8 Vocal Effects (2 videos)

This week’s ITL is a continuation of last week’s that talks all about vocal effects and various techniques! Check the second part after the jump!


Universal Taking Active Steps to Reduce Its Marketshare

Via DMN/Allindstrom So, mine is smaller than yours? Seems like an extraordinary utterance in the ego-heavy world of the major label. But faced with a seriously lopsided, post-merger marketshare, Universal Music Group now appears to be taking active steps to reduce its marketshare tallies – and win deal approval. Which could ultimately mean a shift…


Spotify and Yahoo! Announce Deal

Via Hypebot:/Allindstrom Spotify and Yahoo! have cut a global content distribution and promotion deal that embeds Spotify’s on demand music service across the Yahoo! network of sites. It’s a major deal for both companies. Spotify gets access to Yahoo!’s 700 million unique users monthly. Yahoo! gets a a music service again, after gutting their own…


The Breakfast Club Interviews Brianna

 


Judge Blasts Universal in Key Eminem Royalties Case Ruling

Via Billboard: Universal Music has just been handed an epic smackdown by the California judge presiding over a battle with producers of many hit Eminem recordings. In a decision that is sure to have tongues wagging throughout the music industry, the judge suggests that Universal has been “bamboozling” and attempting to “dupe” him into overlooking…


A$AP Rocky On Working With Lana Del Rey

O say can you see? Yesterday, Lana Del Rey premiered her new JFK-inspired video with A$AP Rocky as the POTUS. In an interview with VICE’s Noisey arm, he discusses his role and how the video came about. I love it, yeah. I think you make a great JFK. How did it come about? Lana wrote…