Last week it was announced that the Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) and music business mover and shaker Irving Azoff would enter into a joint venture called Azoff MSG Entertainment (AMSGE). In a move that could provide a peek into what the major record label of the future could be, it’s been reported that MSG…

Last week, Sony Corporation announced a new line of high-end audio components that promise to deliver a better online audio experience. The announcement comes amid growing evidence that music fans are tired of the crappy sound they hear on their portable music players. Case in point is the success of Cookie Marenco’s business of selling…

Nicki Minaj, Red One, and three other collaborators face allegations that they stole the melody for “Starships” from electronic artist Clive Tanaka. According to the Chicago Tribune, a new lawsuit claims that the quintet lifted elements of Tanaka’s track “Neu Chicago,” which appeared on his 2011 LP Jet Set Siempre 1° (Burger Records)….

ALM has introduced the Sid Guts – a new Eurorack module basd on the sound generator chip used in the Commodore 64. The MOS Technology 6581/8580 ?Sound Interface Device? chip, aka the ?SID?, was the sound generator chip used in the Commodore 64 home computer. The SID, by the means of 3 wavetable oscillators, a…

Ministry Of Sound‘s CEO Lohan Presencer has claimed that it is “dangerous to support Spotify”. As previously reported, Ministry of Sound is currently suing the streaming service for copyright infringement because the streaming service has allegedly refused to delete users’ playlists that “copy” the tracklistings of its compilation albums….

You can try if you want, but Google is here to tell you that piracy will not be tolerated. Under continuous pressure from movie and music label reps, Google published a report about their defence to stop all forms of piracy which would include YouTube (people who repost music on their channels and gain monetary…

French conglomerate Vivendi, which owns Universal Music Group, today announced that its supervisory board has unanimously voted to launch a study to split into two separate companies – an international media group and the SFR telecom group. Vivendi’s new international media group would be based in France and include UMG, the world’s largest music company,…

A onetime roommate and friend of Lady Gaga who claimed after serving as her personal assistant for more than a year that the pop singer cheated her out of overtime wages can tell her story to a jury in November, a judge said Tuesday. A jury can decide whether Gaga’s demands left Jennifer O’Neill any…

Game may be one of the most tough-talking emcees in Hip Hop, but the Compton native may just have a heart of gold. TMZ reports that Game is donating $10,000 to the family of a 6-year-old Los Angeles girl who was fatally shot outside her home this weekend. The funds will go to cover the…

One of the things that beginning engineer’s soon learn is that you can’t get the most from your EQ unless you know what to expect when you use it. Here’s a chart from the 3rd edition of The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook that breaks the audio spectrum into ranges and describes the effect of boosting or…