One of the best things about having a big set of monitors in the studio or being at a concert is the fact that you can feel the music as well as hear it. There’s a feeling of power that you get that excites us in a truly visceral way. A big problem with headphones…

Disco Donnie Estopinal, the first promoter to sell his business to Robert F.X. Sillerman’s newly re-formed SFX Entertainment, is an American dance scene folk hero: He almost went to jail fighting for the rave cause in 2000, when the U.S. government attempted to apply the so-called “Crack House Law” to event promoters, deeming them responsible…

Last year, singer/producer Ryan Leslie included the song “Joan Of Arc” on his third studio album, Les Is More. The self-produced song included portions of a voicemail, that may have the Harvard University graduate in court. The New York Post reports that New York City Police Department Detective Luis Mortimer has sued Ryan Leslie for…

Have you ever wondered how many ways to get your music put out there? Are you looking for new avenues other than the ones you predominantly use today? Here’s 49 more to use at your discretion. For the full story, click here. “Give your music away for free on torrent sites This one is slightly…

Rock the Bells boss Chang Weisberg was in the crowd at Coachella last year when the audience had their minds blown by the surprise appearance of the Tupac hologram
 during Dr. Dre’s set. In fact, he said he was standing right next to Dre’s family when ‘Pac was brought back to (virtual) life and even…

Russell Simmons says he was taken aback by the controversy over the Harriet Tubman parody video recently posted on his YouTube channel, which depicted the U.S. abolitionist having sex with her white slave master with the intent of filming the act and blackmailing him. In fact, he tells host Cynthia LuCiette in the YouTube entertainment…

In March, Justin Timberlake returned to music after a seven-year absence with The 20/20 Experience. On September 30th, he will release another 11 songs from those same sessions, The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2. What prompted such a flood of new material? Ben Affleck. “We had a month prior to Justin shooting a movie with…

Earlier in 2013, 50 Cent lost a lawsuit against Sleek Audio, a company the Queens emcee claimed owed him over $261,000. Now, according to TMZ, 50 Cent is filing a federal lawsuit, claiming that the arbitration judge in the case discriminated against him because he’s black, associates with controversial African-American figures, and because of his…

(Yahoo!) – “I hope I die before I defend a boy band accused of ripping off one of my classics.” Those weren’t quite the Pete Townshend-penned lyrics included in the Who’s 1965 classic “My Generation.” First of all, that’s much too wordy to fit nicely in a song. Also, back then, the Who — along with the Rolling…

Continuing with our isolated guitar themed Fridays, here’s the lead guitar tracks from Guns n’ Roses breakout hit “Sweet Child Of Mine.” Here are some things to listen for: 1. Slash’s distorted guitar intro line, as well as the interlude and solo, has a nice big medium length stereo reverb on it with not a…