“1. Your Song Chorus Will Have To Be Catchy This is probably one of the biggest factors you’ll need to learn when it comes to writing a popular song. If you want to give your song the best chance of climbing up the charts, you’ll need to write a catchy chorus. The reason for this…

Joan Jett and Heart are among a growing list of artists distancing themselves from SeaWorld over the recent movie Blackfish, which questions the effects of captivity on whales such as the orcas that perform at the marine theme park. Jett wrote a letter asking that SeaWorld stop playing her music in its shows, while Heart…

Pharrell’s “Happy” is sure to bring a smile, a foot tap or even a little two-step. The N.E.R.D. frontman takes us behind-the-scenes in the filming of his 24-hour feel good video. Directed by We Are From LA, the visual displays Pharrell shooting the visual with a church choir, celebrity cameos and more. Check out the making…

Freddie Gibbs spoke about his fallout with Young Jeezy yesterday (December 9). In an exclusive conversation with HipHopDX during the release party for E-40’s Block Brochure: Welcome To The Soil 4, 5 & 6, Gibbs said that part of the reason why their business relationship soured was because the CTE frontman is less talented than…

Anyone trying to export a song from their DAW knows that there are quite a number of audio data compression formats available today, even though only two of them are normally used in the vast majority of cases. Of course I’m talking about MP3 and AAC when it comes to downloads, although we’re seeing an…

In this exclusive video we talk with Director Francis Lawerence and Jeremy Peirson (Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor) about the sound teams work to create the second film in the blockbuster franchise based on Suzanne Collins’ hit novels….

In early 2012, Mac Miller began working with super-producer Pharrell Williams on a joint-EP the two began referring to in interviews as Pink Slime. As Miller told Rolling Stone shortly thereafter, they planned to release their collaboration later that year. But busy work schedules for both artists and most prominently, Williams’ mega 2013, caused the…

“We’re no longer in the music business — it doesn’t exist anymore. We’re in the multimedia business.” This was artist manager Scooter Braun speaking to Billboard for a story about his and fellow managers Troy Carter and Guy Oseary’s investments in a variety of social media and technology startups….

The album was recorded in the 1980s but shelved when Columbia dropped the Man in Black in 1986. In the early 1980s, Johnny Cash was at a low point in his career. In an attempt to modernize his sound, Columbia Records paired him with Nashville legend Billy Sherrill, one of the architects of country’s pop-influenced…

Q-Tip The Abstract and Busta Rhymes give fans a little history on their friendship through the years. Gearing up for their upcoming release of their joint mixtape “The Abstract And The Dragon”, Busta and Q-Tip decided to build some more hype around the project. Check it out Props to KarenCivil [Al Lindstrom]