In January, headphone giant Beats Electronics will finally move into the streaming music game with Beats Music (formerly nicknamed Daisy). According to a blog post by Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers, the service has already been in a “private Alpha-turned-Beta” phase and is “nearly ready for liftoff.”…

As Kanye West parts ways with Nike, Drake partners with the brand. During his Would You Like A Tour? show in Portland, Oregon last night (Dec. 3), also where the Nike headquarters are located, Drake announced his new deal with Jordan brand….

Lupe Fiasco has made a career out of writing bars. Now, he’s trying his hand at writing a novel. Specifically, Lupe has begun tweeting what he describes as an “Afro-Futurist novel that will be written entirely on twitter,” and “will be published in chapters.” Below is chapter one of the work, titled Teriyaki Joe: Neo…

Gestural motion control for musicians has gone from being ‘Minority Report’ fantasy to being an inexpensive reality in the last year. The combination of the Leap Motion (about $80) and Geert Bevin’s Geco MIDI (about $10) creates a powerful gestural control system. But does gestural control, which looks cool in sci fi, deliver as a…

The Two Thousand Six Hundred, or TTSH for short, is a new DIY synth project, inspired by the classic ARP 2600 semi-modular analog synthesizer. The TTSH is now available as a kit for 4000 SEK (about US $600), containing PCBs and the powder-coated and screen-printed front panel. This is an advanced DIY project – nothing is pre-built and…

After performing a great show at Atlanta’s own Philips Arena last night, Kanye West stopped by the studio today to chop it up with Greg Street….

It’s been 4 years since Hip Hop icon Q-Tip has sat down with Elliott Wilson, but the 2 sat down and caught up right before A Tribe Called Quest hit the Barclays stage for what they are toting as their last performance ever. Will ATCQ ever reunite after this Yeezus tour? What’s else is in…

For decades, songwriters and artists flourished in New York like nowhere else. The city’s prominence in music goes back to the 1930s and ’40s, when jazz musicians first discovered inviting audiences and composers secured steady work writing the Great American Songbook. In the ’60s, folk artists found kindred spirits in the cafes and nightclubs of…

Over some bottle of Ciroc, Diddy and Arsenio Hall got down to business last night. During their encounter, Puff discussed his Revolt TV, the lost of his father, and more. Cheers!…

Rdio has finally found it’s CEO  after a five-month search. Today the company announced that Anthony Bay, a former executive of Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple, will become the new CEO of the company. The tech veteran hopes to take Rdio to the next level in what they call “human powered music discovery”….