The music and movie industries are sounding the alarm again on online piracy, saying illegal downloads are on the rise and search engines like Google aren’t doing enough to stop them. Entertainment executives say they have no intention of trying to revive failed legislation that would have imposed unprecedented regulations on Internet companies. That proposal…

Roger Waters regrets suing his former Pink Floyd bandmates in the mid-Eighties over use of the group’s name. Calling the group a “spent force creatively,” Waters took guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason to court in 1986 to prevent them from performing or recording as Pink Floyd, which prompted an ugly back-and-forth in the…

Patrick Madden, at Secret Base Design, let us know that MIDImorphosis, their pitch-to-midi app now has polyphonic support working in the newest version. (With a caveat: “it’s an update to the latest Audiobus SDK — as far as I can tell, there are no compatibility problems with iOS 7, but we’re trying to keep in…

Carole King will be honored as the MusiCares person of the year during the 2014 Grammy Awards week. The Recording Academy announced Thursday that King will be saluted by performers Lady Gaga, the Dixie Chicks, Bette Midler, Steve Tyler, James Taylor and Jason Mraz with more to be announced later….

The unique musical traditions of Rome’s ancient Jewish community were almost lost for good. Now, those melodies are being revived — not by musicologists, but by a rock band based in New York. “I fell in love with the melodies, and I started to re-imagine them for my band in our own style,” says Dan…

Richard Branson has stated that a combination of Apple and the internet has “killed” high-street record shops. But the Virgin Group mogul – whose own Virgin Megastores chain was sold in the UK in 2007 to the short-lived Zavvi consortium – admitted that increasing technology made music stores’ closure inevitable….

When the Cult released their album Electric in 1987, it represented the shock of the new and the old. The U.K. group had previously enjoyed triumph with their sophomore full-length, 1985’s Love – an ultra-contemporary masterpiece of post-punk soon ubiquitous thanks to its breakthrough smash, “She Sells Sanctuary.” But when the Cult reappeared two years…

One of the mistakes that many audio mixers make is not calibrating their hearing before beginning a mix. It’s not that you can’t get a great mix without it, it’s just that doing so makes things easier, since it takes you less time to focus on the details of a mix. Here’s an excerpt from…

Courtney Love’s unfettered love of social media has gotten her into much legal trouble over the years. In January, she is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly defaming her ex-attorney Rhonda Holmes in tweets and press interviews. The singer is charged with damaging the attorney’s reputation by saying “they got to” Holmes and that…

If you use your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch for audio, you should wait to upgrade to iOS 7, says Audiobus co-developer Michael Tyson:We’re on the cusp of iOS 7, and I’m here to urge caution: If you rely on music apps, please don’t update yet. iOS 7 audio is not ready. There are a wide…