Get More: Busta Rhymes, Music News Busta Rhymes has been interested in the dynamics at work behind secret societies for some time now, but even he thinks that hip-hop’s fascination with the Illuminati is spiraling out of control. During his visit to “RapFix Live,” Busta explained why he addressed the topic on his upcoming album…

Enjoy an old rock tune on satellite radio lately? A new proposed class action raises the theory that SiriusXM has infringed millions of these older recordings from thousands of artists. Damages are alleged to be at least $100 million, but for a company that last reported quarterly revenues of $940 million, the attorneys representing the…

On Friday night, HOV took over HBO. Jay Z turned the channel into his own personal playground, not only premiering his “Picasso Baby” performance art film, but making a guest appearance on “Real Time With Bill Maher.” Jay appeared on a panel that included former Massachusetts senator Barney Frank and Alexis Goldstein of Occupy Wall…

Canadian synthesis software developers Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS) has released the Microsound Textures sound bank for the Chromaphone creative percussion synthesizer and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with artist and sound designer Richard Devine.Microsound Textures joins Cardinals and KitNetix as the third title in Chromaphone’s Sound Bank Series expansion line. AAS’ description of the sound…

There are optimistic forecasts and there’s ABI Research forecast on the next five years of the music subscription business. Subscription business will generate $46 billion of consumer spending and roughly $32 billion of trade value by 2018, according to ABI. The company expects there to be 29 million subscribers by the end of this year….

When it comes to capturing excellent audio for video, producers in the know either record using a detached microphone or record the audio on a separate device for more control and overall best quality. Many of Videomaker’s forum members use the Zoom H2 in their productions with great success,and will be pleased to know that…

    Russell Simmons wrote this letter on Global Grind in response to Don Lemon’s recent segment on the troubles in black communities. Dear Don, If you want to tell the rest of America this weekend when you go back on CNN how we fix black America, tell them to re-start the “War on Poverty.”…

U.S. album sales have hit new historic lows over the last five weeks marking the longest consecutive stretch in the SoundScan era that the industry has gone without scanning more than 5 million units. And, over the last two weeks, album sales hit consecutive record lows. Which begs the question, is it all due to…

Reader Eliot Fitzroy reviews the new iMPC for iPhone. When we posted about the introduction of iMPC for iPhone, many reader readers commented that the iMPC doesn’t live up to their expectations. A lot of readers have used hardware MPCs and would like to see a mobile version that offers professional features and support for professional workflows….

Like This? You Should Subscribe Here Now: http://bit.ly/VErZkw Fresh as hell up-and-comer Mike Will Made It recounts his beat making philosophy. [Noisey]