Tom Windish, Founder of the Windish Agency, joins Renman to talk about artists, building careers, and the renaissance going on in today’s music business. Soon after, he began booking tours for bands, some of which he had booked to play at his college a few months or years earlier. He now oversees one of the…

Your guess is as good as mine. Eminme’s official Facebook page posted the above image, so we only expect that, well, something big is on the way! Any speculations? New song? Album release date/title/artwork? Could really be anything. Either way, any new Eminem news is good news by default. Via Vibe & AlLindstrom

Paradigm Talent Agency announced on Friday that it’s launched a new music label called Big Picnic Records. Funded by private investors and distributed by Sony’s RED Music, Paradigm’s head of East Coast music Marty Diamond will provide A&R support to Big Picnic general manager Patti Hauseman. The label’s first release is by British singer-songwriter WALL,…

Jay-Z. Jay-Hova. Jiggaman. Shawn Carter, known for the better part of two decades by these stage names, first earned fame as a rapper in the mid-1990s and has since built a business empire that has included a record label, a clothing line and a minority stake in the Brooklyn Nets basketball team, on top of…

In a dog-and-pony show yesterday at Facebook’s Silicon Valley campus, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Home, new software for the Android OS that gives Facebook content top placement on smartphones, the Wall Street Journal explains. Instead of displaying a phone’s traditional menu of apps, Home takes over a handset’s cover screen—the first layer or images that appear…

Apple is within a week of striking a streaming deal with UMG and Warner Music that could end up far more lucrative for the music biz than what the labels currently get from Pandora, two people familiar with the negotiations told CNET News. But the company has yet to get Sony Music and the publishers…