A year before they released Ten and kicked off an enviable career, Pearl Jam hit the studio as Mookie Blaylock and recorded a handful of cuts that would later appear on their first LP and dominate radio airwaves. YouTube user Luciano Gargiulo has managed to get his hands on those recordings, and uploaded all 11 tracks as…

Get More: 2013 VMA, Artists.MTV, Music It’s VMA weekend in New York City and the stick up kids are out to tax. Early yesterday morning, producer Scott Storch was robbed of his jewelry and cash while leaving a recording studio. He was unharmed. While on MTV Rap Fix today, he spoke on the jacking and…

Young norteño star Gerardo Ortiz, the late Jenni Rivera and ever-popular Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho lead the list of finalists for the third annual Billboard Mexican Music Awards, set to air live on the Telemundo Network Oct. 9 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. The list of top finalists, which also include…

Here’s a sneak preview of TouchAble 2 – an update to the Ableton Live controller app for the iPad. touchAble is designed to provide “a powerful, intuitive and reliable multitouch control solution for professional use.” It’s fully compatibility with Live 8 and Live 9, Intro, Standard & Suite. touchAble includes templates for lives plugins and is…

Maker Studios, whose 60,000 YouTube channels command more than 4 billion views a month, has signed an agreement to purchase Blip, a producer and distributor of original Web videos, according to sources close to the deal, which is expected to close early September. The agreement, first reported by AllThngsD, would combine Maker’s presence on YouTube…

American Idol is out, The Voice is in for hitmaker will.i.am. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the Black Eyed Peas frontman-turned-solo-star will return to the U.K. version of The Voice as a coach for the third season of the BBC One show. He’ll join Tom Jones, who’s also expected to come back. Pop star Jessie…

Coolio wants to take his chef career to the next level, and he’s auctioning off the rights to his music catalog to help pay for it. The rapper is putting 123 songs, including his Grammy-winning single “Gangsta’s Paradise,” up for auction at the Royalty Exchange, according to The Guardian. Coolio’s catalogue includes eight albums over 19 years,…

As reported yesterday, country star Luke Bryan nabs his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with “Crash My Party.” The album bows atop the list with nearly 528,000 sold in the week ending Sunday, Aug. 18, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

 “Crash My Party” follows his previous chart-topper, “Spring Break . . . Here…

Sub Pop had something special on their hands with Nirvana**, and it only took them $600 dollars to lock down a contract with the band. The influential Seattle label posted their original contract with Nirvana on Tumblr. Though the document isn’t dated, it lists the early Nirvana lineup of Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic (listed as…

Does it matter what your music sounds like? Maybe not. According to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the way you look when you perform may be more important than the way you sound. Researcher Chia-Jung Tsay reports that “People consistently report that…