I wonder if HTCOne phone users will reconsider buying these phones after this news. “Beats is paying $265 million to buy back the $300 million 51% stake which mobile phone maker HTC made two years ago. The company, makers of top-selling Beats headphones, will also repay a $150 million note. The deal leaves music exec…

Kanye West has reacted angrily to a US chatshow’s parody of his extraordinary radio interview earlier this week. On Tuesday night (September 24) Jimmy Kimmel Live sent up West’s interview with BBC Radio 1, during which the rapper declared himself the “Number One rockstar on the planet”, by having a child actor re-enact it while…

Legitimate online music sales in Russia are to more than double this year, a local research company says, adding that iTunes’ presence in the market has a serious impact. In 2013, Russia’s legitimate online music market is to reach $8 million, a 158 percent increase from last year, J’son & Partners Consulting, a Moscow-based research…

By now, you music heads out there should know some of these already. If you don’t, it’s always nice to sharpen up your skills. Here’s 10 tips for networking or pushing your music. Like the old saying goes, If you wanna be famous, you must put the work in….

Get More: OutKast, Music News Outkast is everlasting and so is their music. This past Monday, the duo’s SpeakerBoxxx/The Love Below turned 10 years old.  Yeah. we’re getting old. Big Boi talked to MTV about their diamond seller and label’s reluctance to lead with “Hey Ya”….

One of the more ubiquitous faces from California’s ’80s punk scene will no longer be seen at the area’s shows. William “Bill” Bartell, who performed as Pat Fear with the influential group White Flag, has died at the age of 52. According to the Press Enterprise, Bartell was found dead in his Moreno Valley, California,…

Nardwuar has one of his unique interviews with French Montana….

Irv Gotti and Ja Rule made their second radio appearance and this time, it was on Power 105.1. Irv kicked things off by speaking on his relationship with Queens drug lord, Supreme. The conversation then shifted to backlash, siding with Nas, dissing Jennifer Lopez,  and ecstasy….

Amnesty International have called on the Russian authorities to investigate jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s abuse claims. Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike earlier this week as a protest against prison conditions. In an open letter, published by The Guardian, she writes of the hunger strike: “This is an extreme method, but I am convinced…

“It’s a new chapter in the Britney Spears saga,” says her manager Larry Rudolph, who’s standing outside of a rehearsal studio at CenterStaging in Burbank, Calif. It’s a typically sunny Los Angeles morning and dozens of scantily clad dancers have flocked to Studio 10 to audition for Spears’ upcoming residency show at Planet Hollywood Resort…