Talib Kweli recently spoke on current rappers he is intrigued by. “I’m excited by [Pro Era],” Kweli said in an interview for XXL. “Those kids seem to be directly inspired, not by what’s going on in Hip Hop now, but they’re inspired by the Hip Hop of their parents. The same way my generation was…

Talib Kweli recently spoke on current rappers he is intrigued by. “I’m excited by [Pro Era],” Kweli said in an interview for XXL. “Those kids seem to be directly inspired, not by what’s going on in Hip Hop now, but they’re inspired by the Hip Hop of their parents. The same way my generation was…

YouTube notched a major victory when Viacom lost its landmark copyright infringement suit against Google last month, but suits involving the online-video giant keep rolling in. The New York Times is reporting a group of music publishers including Warner/Chappell are taking aim at Fullscreen, the company behind many of YouTube’s most popular videos. According to…

Big Sean speaks on one of his most anticipated tracks from his upcoming album,” First Chain.” Big Sean speaks on the meaning behind the song which will be on, “Hall Of Fame,” which goes on sale August 27th. [Real Talk NY]

Pretty much everybody wants their music video to go viral and almost nobody can guarantee such an outcome. Recently a trio of approaches for helping make that happen came to my attention including viral video creation contests on the recently relaunched Tunected, the advice to “think like a street magician” and an impressive example of…

Julie Pilat, who spent 20 years at Clear Channel stations, joins the as-yet-unlaunched subscription service in a key role. It’s “the opportunity of a lifetime,” Pilat said. Jimmy Iovine’s music subscription service, Beats Music, has found its curator in Clear Channel veteran Julie Pilat, who has come aboard the Beats by Dre-owned entity. Pilat, who…

Guest Contributor Ted James sends in his overview of the Inear Display’s Tkapik sampler. “Tkapik is an amplitude controlled generative sampler plugin. Add it to a track, then load a sound file and Tkapik will trigger the sample with random settings every time an amplitude peak is detected in the input signal. The sample can…

Dubspot catches up with world renowned visual artist and installation designer Vello Virkhaus to talk about his beginnings in visual art and his current state of “suspending reality, and going to fantastic places” with Ultra Music Festival, Skrillex, Amon Tobin. [DubSpot]  

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For the sixth season of “Live From the Artists Den,” Imagine Dragons took the stage at the Ebell hall in Los Angeles to perform their massive hit, “Radioactive.” The Las Vegas rockers made their popular track more powerful than ever in this exclusive clip with a ringing gong intro and a two-minute instrumental interlude, during…