Pharrell Williams is on a Gravity high. “Whew! Whew!” he says. “Listen to me, it is crazy.” The 40-year-old musician, producer, and mini mogul is seated on a rolling chair in the tranquil recording studio at the top of Miami’s Setai Hotel; he’s small and delicate, like an Egyptian cat, with ropes of delicate gold…

The company behind the viral ‘Girls’ parody advert write their own open letter. Last week, a two-minute ad by educational toy company Goldieblox that parodied the Beastie Boys’ 1987 single ‘Girls’ went viral. The lawyers for the Beasties threatened GoldieBlox with a copyright infringement lawsuit, and the toy company filed their own suit, seeking declaratory…

The steady decline in the monetary value of the global recorded music market has been plain for all to see over the past decade. Piracy has helped bully the halcyon days of the £10 CD out the door in the UK, leaving behind a near-bankrupt retail giant (HMV), and making megabucks album marketing budgets largely…

THE DEBUT EP: Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake, as well as pop singers like Lana Del Rey. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me—or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening…

Elektron has officially introduced the Analog Keys – a flagship analog synthesizer that offers analog synthesis, digital controls, and ‘unprecedented playability’. Key features include: 100% analog signal path Two analog oscillators, two sub oscillators, dual analog filters and an analog overdrive circuit per voice provide that inimitable and organic sound….

Watch Kanye West as he sits down with DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlemagne the God on Power 105′s The Breakfast Club. Kanye talks about his creative direction that fuels the Yeezus tour, tension between Dame Dash and Jay-Z on Roc-A-Fella, and the difference between G.O.O.D. Music and other major labels camps. [Al Lindstrom]

On a windy late autumn night atop the W Hotel in Hollywood, EDM deity Steve Angello was bestowed the 2013 Eliason Merit Award by his Scandinavian peers at the Los Angeles branch of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce. The red carpet event was awash with svelte figures enjoying Swedish snacks including beet-and-turnip skewers and…

Nabil, Craig Wetherby, Michael “Snapps” Knapp are among the 10 photographers to know right now, according to green-label.com Green-Label.com has announced its list of “10 Great Music Photographers You Should Know Right Now.” The site says that the photographers are charged with a difficult task. “Capturing those fast-moving concert moments, battling it out in the…

Synthesizers.com’s Roger Arrick has shared a great collection of photos of the Moog synthesizer factory in 1977, taken by William Beith. Beith visited the Moog factory at its Cheektowaga, NY location as part of his work for Gibson Guitars. The photos are very evocative, because of the both the content and the age of the film. And the…

Reggaetón star Daddy Yankee’s legal team is seeking a judgement not withstanding verdict following a jury’s decision to impose a $6 million penalty against the artist, his label El Cartel Records, plus his ex-booking agent Edgar Baldiri Martínez and agency, Icaro Services. The penalty stems from a 2011 lawsuit filed by Argentine promoter Diego Iraola…