In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Music producer and teacher Robert DiFazio addresses the question of whether production and engineering responsibilities should fall to the same individual, and makes a case for when it may be appropriate to do so. [Artist House Music]

Drake and his OVO Touring company are being sued for allegedly making away with more than $200,000 of a Chicago concert promoter’s money. In court documents filed Tuesday, December 10, and obtained by SPIN, Status Entertainment says the Nothing Was the Same star bailed on two agreed-upon gigs, that his people attempted to increase an already…

Inside Llewyn Davis takes an unabashed look at the 1960s pre-Bob Dylan folk music scene in New York City, but its life extends far beyond the big screen. In September, a four-hour concert was held in New York City’s legendary Town Hall to celebrate folk music of the past and present that attracted names like…

BeautifulNow is a new website where people can discover, create, and share beautiful things happening in the world right now. BeautifulNow and The Sound Agency have teamed up for “The Most Beautiful Sound In The World” competition, powered by SoundCloud. Beauty can be hard to find because there is such a plethora of ugliness, negativity,…

Bruno Mars has been named Billboard‘s Artist of the Year. The singer, who headlines the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show with his eight-piece band The Hooligans on Feb. 2, 2014, had one of the year’s best-selling albums, Unorthodox Jukebox. He also was No. 1 on eight of Billboard‘s year-end charts, including Hot 100 Artists…

(AllHipHop News) Wale really liked his most recent album The Gifted and really wanted everyone to like The Gifted and when some did not, Wale went nuts. This past Wednesday (December 11th) Wale angrily threatened and showed his displeasure for not being included on Complex’s Top 50 Albums of 2013 list in a phone call to one of Complex’s writers….

As you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting any song analysis for a while. That’s because I’ve been compiling them into what’s become a series of books called Deconstructed Hits. The first 3 books in the series are now available and include Deconstructed Hits: Classic Rock Vol. 1, Deconstructed Hits: Modern Rock & Country,…

A self-titled Beyoncé album has surfaced on iTunes, featuring 14 new tracks and an additional 18 videos. Billed as a “visual album,” Beyoncé is described as a “provocative, unguarded artistic statement — revealing a side of the icon previously unknown to fans and cementing her status as a pop visionary.” Earlier this week, Columbia Records…

The news arrived via a Twitter message from one of his many collaborators, Anton Lukoszevieze. The news will likely come as a shock to his fans: Karkowski’s death comes only 10 weeks after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Although well-versed in a number of different fields of computer and instrumental composition, Karkowski is best-known for…

If you write songs, and your songs are sold, downloaded, streamed or used in many other ways, they’re generating songwriter royalties for you.  Awesome, right? Nowadays, the types of songwriter royalties earned fall into two buckets: Physical/Analog Songwriter Royalties (generated from old school music industry), and Digital Songwriter Royalties (generated from the modern digital music…