Get More: Drake, Music News Before Birdman and Mannie Fresh repaired their relationship, Stunna told Sway that the new Big Tymers would consist of himself, Lil Wayne, and Drake. Unfortunately, Drizzy didn’t get the office memo. During OVO Fest, he tells MTV that he was unaware of the news, but is down for the cause….

The creation of the Elysium soundtrack was unconventional from the start. Director Neill Blomkamp found composer Ryan Amon on YouTube, e-mailing the then-Bolivia-based musician, who was working on scores for movie trailers, with a simple question, “Is this you?” and a link to one of Amon’s early tracks, posted on the site. “I had to…

One of the most revered names in the piano business, actually the entire music business, is Steinway. The company may be in for a big change in the near future as private equity firm Kohlberg & Company is on the verge of buying them, which will take the company private again (its stock hovers around…

Released in January of 2007, Washington Heights native emcee MIMS scored a #1 Hot 100 song in “This Is Why I’m Hot.” In March of that year, the single’s success translated to a Top 5 debut of MIMS’ first album, Music Is My Savior, which featured Bun B and longtime MIMS affiliate, underground Hip Hop…

Francis Preve offers his take on Wolfgang Palm’s new PPG WaveMapper for iPad in the latest issue of Keyboard magazine. Preve calls WaveMapper ‘an incredibly deep synthesizer’ and praises its user-friendly approach to patch-creation: Palm takes an elegantly simple concept – mixing and matching important aspects of multiple synth patches – and implements them in…

Ransom has denied saying that he’s ghostwritten songs for Nicki Minaj. The ghostwriting claims stemmed from a line in Ransom’s “Man Alone” track, which he says has been misinterpreted. “Before Nicki was wearing those crazy wigs, I was doing verses for her just hoping she made it big,” Ransom says on the song. When Minaj…

WillCall, a San Francisco-based developer of a mobile app for concerts, has raised $1.2 million in angel funding from Sean Paker, Coran Capshaw, Loeb & Loeb partner John Frankenheimer, Red Light Management’s Bruce Flohr and a number of other angel investors. “There aren’t many people with visibility into the nuances of both the music and…

After hearing about a Washington, D.C. family who lost their home, Queens, New York star emcee Nas is taking action. The Def Jam Records artist learned about the family of Stanley Young, an unemployed construction worker in the U.S. capital city, who lost his apartment above a grocery store after a fire. The eight-member family…

Green Day have been cleared in a lawsuit over their use of an artist’s image in a concert backdrop. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled in favor of the rockers today in a “close and difficult case,” saying they didn’t violate illustrator Dereck Seltzer’s rights by using his work, Reuters reports….

Celemony has release a new tutorial for Melodyne users that explores how you can tweak drum loops. Melodyne is best known for its capabilities for pitch modification. In this tutorial, though, the focus is on using the app’s unique capabilities to tweak individual beats within a drum loop. Summary: Compressors are useful tools for bringing…