“It’s not necessarily a sequel,” Eminem said of his new album in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, “as much as it is a revisitation.” Thirteen years after the highly acclaimed original landed on shelves, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, out Nov. 5, arrives at a time of turbulent industry transformations. Characterizing the rapper’s latest installment…

On Tuesday, Liberty media announced that it has lower third-quarter earnings than usual, however they have improved in financial areas concerning Sirius XM, and the premium TV firm Starz, which it spun off off earlier in the year. Read more below. Operating profit of $248 million was up from $10 million in the year-ago quarter….

Phil Lesh, bassist and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has agreed to a unique and (hopefully) mutually beneficial touring agreement with Peter Shapiro, the Brooklyn-based owner and promoter of venues the Brooklyn Bowl and Port Chester’s Capitol Theater, according to a story in the New York Times. The agreement will have Lesh performing…

Luscious Jackson were one of the coolest bands of the Nineties: four women making rock music with a heavy accent on the groove, an ideal soundtrack for hot days with cold drinks. 1996’s Fever In Fever Out album went gold, but they broke up in 2000 when Capitol Records was disappointed with the performance of the…

There was a lot of new gear announced at the recent AES show, but one of the most spot-on in terms of the needs of a modern studio was API’s “The Box.” The new API unit is the answer for anyone who has a mid-tier home studio that only records a few instruments at a…

This is amazing! An unreleased 2002 interview that MTV conducted for their “You Heard It First” series featuring Kanye West has surfaced. This interview captured Kanye reminiscing about his journey as a producer, working with Jay-Z on “The Blueprint,” convincing Dame Dash that he could really rap and so much more, all before he even…

Imagine that all of your favorite music — from to — was released by the same record label. Well, if you were African-American back in the 1920s, odds are that was the case. What makes the story even more interesting is that this record label was launched by a company that made chairs. Its name…

Billy Corgan is best known as frontman for the Smashing Pumpkins, but the alt-rock icon also moonlights (bizarrely) as commissioner for Resistance Pro Wrestling, a professional wrestling company he founded in 2011. Now, it looks as though Corgan is about to throw some added muscle behind his in-the-ring ambitions. According to Alternative Nation, the 46-year-old…

During this weekend’s Power 105.1′s Powerhouse concert, the Breakfast Club chatted with TDE and A$AP Mob backstage. They spoke on the competition in the game, Kendrick touches on Drake and the numerous references of “Kendrick & Black Hippy”….

On Monday in Washington, D.C., Thomas Wheeler will be sworn in as the Federal Communications Commission’s 31st chairman since it was created in 1934. As is tradition, Wheeler was confirmed along with a Republican, Michael O’Reilly, a former Senate staffer, bringing the commission to full strength for the first time since Julius Genachowski resigned as…