2012 was a great year for music on TV. There was Megan Draper shimmying and shaking her way through “Zou Bisou Bisou.” The Dean and Jeff Winger making sweet, beautiful, musical love with “Kiss from a Rose.” HIS NAME IS JAMES, JAMES CAMERON, THE BRAVE PIONEER. But 2013 has been better, because 2012 didn’t have…

Heroic in his deeds, graceful in his manner, sainted in his image, Nelson Mandela long served as both cause and muse in the entertainment community. From the 1960s, when he was a political prisoner and South Africa was under the laws of apartheid, right up to recent times, when the racist laws of the land…

Proving tragedy can indeed bring people together, last night surviving Doors members John Densmore and Robby Krieger shared a stage for the first time in 15 years, overcoming years of well-documented legal disputes over the band’s legacy and name. Last night, they were on hand at the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art’s multi-tiered event…

John Mayer and longtime manager Michael McDonald of Mick Management have parted ways, according to two knowledgeable executives. The split was finalized in the midst of the second leg of the John Mayer Live In Concert tour Tuesday night (Dec. 3), at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio. Mayer has already been removed from Mick’s…

Developers Bartosz Kowalski & Joseph Chehade have introduced umidi – a new MIDI controller that’s completely customizable. Using a web-based interface, you can change the types of knobs, lights, switches and sliders on the controller, customize the colors and add designs. The components are high-end, and the case is CNC’d from a solid block of aluminum, which…

“The thing is, the exact same thing happened last December, when YouTube cracked down and deleted billions of views, with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record label, having more than a billion offending views stripped from the site (and, we assume, from the accounting department that pays out royalties). Sony’s and other artists also…

BlackBerry has had a rough year. BlackBerry is so badly off it can’t even sell itself for a fraction of its actual worth. But BlackBerry has its dignity, dammit, and it won’t tie itself to a sinking ship like Justin Bieber. Apparently, in the spirit of supporting flailing Canadian brands, Bieber reached out to BlackBerry…

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Drake saw an ABC News’ special on the troubled, Strawberry Mansion High School, in Philadelphia and decided to lend support. Check below for more on the school and the progress they have made….

Jay Z is having an even tougher week than most people realize. He’s not only dealing with baseball general managers and enduring social media snark for his handling of second basemen Robinson Cano, but he’s also battling Egyptians. The sports agent and hip-hop superstar has just failed in a bid to wrap up a six-year-old…

For many, the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s song “Purple Haze” (from the Are You Experienced album) was transformational in that it signaled the transition from pop music that was the driving the music business to a heavier song that would mark the end of the 60s and carry through until the 90s….