As a former executive at CBS Records, the founder of SBK Records (later sold to EMI for a reported $295 million) and CEO of his own CAK Entertainment, which handles brand management for such artists as Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, Adam Levine and Marc Anthony, Charles Koppelman is a music industry veteran if ever there…

Pedro Reyes creates second generation instruments from dismantled guns. With a team of musicians and new media studio, Cocolab, Reyes has made mechanized instruments from these one-time harmful weapons….

  Developer Alexander Zolotov has released Virtual ANS – a software simulator of the unique Russian synthesizer ANS. The original ANS is a photoelectronic microtonal/spectral musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin, from 1938 to 1958. Murzin named his invention in honor of the composer Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. Virtual ANS is a full-featured tool which allows you…

Grey wolves, grizzly bears, and Big Sean, oh my! Skylar Grey comes alive in the video for “Back From the Dead” co-starring Big Sean and Travis Barker. The singer-songwriter transforms a soundstage into a museum with dioramas and fake animals in the dark clip….

Fresh out da pen, Ja Rule was back at Hot 97 with Angie Martinez. In the first part of his interview He spoke on his time in prison. After the jump, he discusses Murder Inc.’s glory days, backlash, falling to 50 Cent and future endeavors….

Like every genre of music, country has its fans and its detractors. But when those detractors include some of the format’s own hit-making artists, country might well be grappling with an image problem even as it enjoys some of its biggest successes in both radio ratings, record sales, and touring boxscores. Zac Brown sparked the…

Amplify.ph is a music site featuring Filipino music across genres. But before you get all agitated and move on to another post cause you’re not interested in the Phillipines, you should know that Amplify.ph is part of a new breed of international music services seeking to find ways to support artists while feeding fans of…

Here’s one of the cooler isolated tracks if you’re a David Bowie fan. It’s the isolated vocal from his hit “Space Oddity.” As some of you might know, I co-wrote the memoir of Ken Scott (Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust), who engineered two Bowie records and engineer/produced 4 (include the seminal Ziggy Stardust). This is one…

J. Cole recently addressed his position in Hip Hop during an interview with Noisey. “I don’t wake up every day like, ‘I got a great status in the Rap game,’” J. Cole said. “No, I feel behind. I don’t feel like I’ve done enough.” While he may not feel that he has done enough in…

On Feb. 5, 2012, nearly 167 million TV viewers tuned in to Super Bowl XLVI to watch a matchup between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. Besides the football action, what had people talking that day was a halftime performance by M.I.A. and, specifically, how she extended her middle finger during a performance…