Get More: Music News Imagine Dragons became the breakout band of 2013 thanks to their Night Visions album, but with a new year looming, they’re preparing to put the record to bed with one final tour of North America, an arena-sized trek they’ve dubbed “Into The Night.” The tour — which kicks off in February…

Lady Gaga pulled off the seemingly impossible on Sunday night (Nov. 10) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: an extravagant spectacle of a record release party for ARTPOP complete with a flying dress, decadent artRave with priceless artwork, free food trucks, open bars, a full-stage show complete with rotating spiral staircase, Artpop app demonstrations and more…

Mutable Instruments has announced the availability of CVpal – a new 2-channel USB->CV/Gate interface DIY kit: Here’s what they have to say about CVpal: We dreamt of a really simple DIY kit – so simple that it would allow beginners to enter the world of DIY with a big smile – and yet, interesting enough to…

Madlib has built his career with sample-heavy productions. In an interview on BBC Radio One, Madlib addressed digging in the crates for records with another sample-based producer, J Dilla. “I’ve seen him on his last days,” said Madlib of the late producer. “Digging for records and finding everything we wanted to find. He had to…

The drum kit usually gets the most attention in most sessions because just about all modern music is rhythm oriented and highly dependent upon the drums for song’s pulse. In fact, in most rock, pop, r&b and country music, a wimpy sounding drum kit equates to a wimpy track, and that’s why we’re dedicating an…

With EDM having become a massive mainstream phenomenon, it’s imperative to remember the influence of that exhilarating first wave of trendsetters in the mid to late ’90s. The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx and the like wildly turned dance music on its head and veritably became the “rock” stars of the post-rave generation….

Get More: Swizz Beatz, RapFix Live, Full Episodes When something’s broken, sometimes you have to take it back to the beginning to fix it. That sentiment is very real for Swizz Beatz who’s executive-producing the album he believes will get DMX‘s career back on track. And as the guy who first gained notoriety as young…

“Be the first one there,” Windish Agency president Tom Windish said when describing his process of securing new acts, like new client Lorde. “I need to hear about it before anyone else does,” the agent said during a panel on the closing day (Nov. 14) of the Billboard Touring Conference in New York. “Once it’s…

What have you got upto this week? Well, if you’re 23 year old CEO and Co-founder of Snapchat, Evan Siegel you’ve just casually turned down a buyout offer worth $3 Billion Dollars (1.8 Billion Pounds) from Facebook, nothing major. Founded in 2011, Snapchat allows users to take photos, videos and more and send them to…

“The only other thing I would ever consider doing,” said Roger Waters, the legendary Pink Floyd frontman, about pursuing a career outside of music, “is starting a church. Then you don’t have to pay income tax All you need is the gift of the gab, you need to be able to lie really well and…