He Who Wears The Crown, Has A New Home. After closing out his contact with Atlantic early this year, T.I. is no longer a free agent. Columbia Records has announced they have partnered with T.I. and his Grand Hustle imprint. As part of the deal, Columbia plans to release his forthcoming set, Trouble Man: He…

Deadmau5 has revealed plans to launch his own music subscription service. The EDM producer explained the vision for his new scheme in a Facebook post published yesterday (November 21). In it, the artist also known as Joel Zimmerman explained that he will be “launching a private site / subscription model really soon. Thank god”. Deadmau5…

The on demand music service, Deezer, will be making a crash landing in the world’s biggest music market coming next year. According to a major label source, the France-based service will be headed to the United States in 2014. One Deezer representative said that the company has been “prioritizing growing markets” with low costs. Since…

The titans of hip hop have been donning their mortar boards at any opportunity lately, what with Harvard launching a fellowship in honour of Nas and Kanye delivering his motivational ramblings to surprised design students. The latest rapper to enter the lecture theatre is Wu-Tang Clan’s resident genius, who turned up at the University of Toronto…

If any of you caught the recent American Masters show about Jimi Hendrix on PBS you know that there was some great seldom-seen interviews that made that documentary one of the best. It seems like there was a lot of footage that didn’t make the program, and here’s some of it, describing the making of…

In the latest episode of Sonic Touch, Gaz Williams and Nick Batt take a look at the new iConnectivity iConnectMIDI 2+. The iConnectMIDI 2+ may be a little awkwardly named, but it offers some very interesting features – including Audio PassThrough, which lets you digitally send the audio from your iPad directly into your computer…

Chris Brown is going back to rehab. The R&B singer has been ordered to serve 90 days in a treatment facility for anger management.  Brown appeared in an L.A. courtroom on Wednesday for a progress report in the Rihanna assault case. The judge ordered Brown to serve three months in a residential treatment facility and…

The latest bombshell to hit the city of Detroit isn’t political, it’s musical. In an announcement today that shocked the techno world and rocked the struggling city’s vibrant arts scene, one of the original organizers of DEMF (Detroit Electronic Music Festival), Carol Marvin, announced the festival’s return, set for July 4, 2014 at Ford Field,…

Another day, another lawsuit involving Rick Ross. He’s been taken to task for allegedly forgetting to pay his Rolex bill and pulling out of concerts abroad. Now members of the gospel group Crowns of Glory are claiming that he and his “3 Kings” cohorts — Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Jake One, and Universal Music — willfully infringed…

Yo Gotti sat alongside DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne this morning to discuss his issues with his label, being.   UPDATE: Back with Power 105, Gotti discussed his I Am album, relationship with Juicy J, beef with Gucci Mane and more….