“Independent Study” is a new column that will profile a different independent label every other week. Its focus is on companies less than a decade old that are defining the DIY era. The 21-year-old rising British pop star Charli XCX has it all. Best known for co-writing Icona Pop’s unsinkable Billboard Hot 100 Top 10…

After tormenting the Twitterverse with her twerking routine at the VMAs, Miley Cyrus went right into the studio with Kanye West to record a remix of his song “Black Skinhead,” Page Six has exclusively learned….

Imagine Dragons – Radioactive on the Radio 1/NME Stage on Saturday at Reading 2013….

Last year, we covered a KickStarter project for Syntorial – an app designed to interactively teach you about synthesis. The project was fully funded and Syntorial is now available….

Legendary hip-hop producer J-Dilla is being immortalized in donut store form. The Detroit-born producer – who died in 2006 of a rare blood disease – had a certain affinity to donuts, his favorite treat; naming his final album “Donuts,” 29 tracks of which he recorded while dying in hospital. Seriously, if you haven’t heard of…

Brendan Jay Sullivan remembers Lady Gaga when she was “a shy, quiet girl with dark hair,” dating a bartender on New York’s Lower East Side. For a year or so, they were good friends, encouraging each other to follow their creative and emotional muses. She danced for his DJ gigs; he helped her build a…

HoodLove, LLC has sued Jay Z’s ROC Apparel Group over a shirt that features the words “Hood Love” on it, according to TMZ. The for-profit company filed a lawsuit this month over a shirt design in the Rocawear line. The shirt, which can be seen below, also features Jay Z’s lyrics, “I’m biggin’ up my borough”…

As Apple prepares iTunes Radio for a September launch, with top brands such as Pepsi, McDonald’s and Nissan as advertisers, the long-suffering record industry is hoping for a new kind of boom. Competition for streaming-music customers is intensifying — Pandora announced last week it would no longer cap mobile listener hours as of September 1st,…

Hip Hop’s stance on homosexuality is ever-evolving, with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ recent performance of “Same Love” at the MTV Video Music Awards as an example. In a recent interview with Mother Jones, Talib Kweli spoke on Hip Hop’s growing acceptance of Homosexuality. “Homosexuality in Hip Hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black…

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