In July, Aimee Mann brought a noteworthy lawsuit over the possible existence of a massive amount of unlicensed music being streamed online. In the cross-hairs of Mann’s multimillion-dollar legal claims was a company called MediaNet, originally backed by EMI, AOL, BMG and RealNetworks before being taken over by a private equity firm. MediaNet is essentially…

  In this installment of Magnum Opus, Busta Rhymes recounts the making of his classic record “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See.” Released in 1997 as the lead single from his album When Disaster Strikes… the song and its accompanying music video propelled Busta’s career to new heights by tapping into his vibrant energy as a…

“1. Collecting Royalties From Your Live Performance So this is the one that a fair few musicians either don’t know about, or think is to complex to do. In reality, collecting royalties from your gigs isn’t difficult at all. Whenever your music is performed in public places, you earn money. That said, if you don’t…

Independent artists have never had access to so many customers. A single distributor can get an artist’s music into digital services around the world. U.S. artists were getting Spotify royalties before the service was available stateside. Now they’re getting royalties from Deezer, Bloom.fm and other services not yet available in the States. Since distributors have…

People who were close to Dave Van Ronk, the Greenwich Village folk-blues-jazz institution, had a feeling someone might be making a movie inspired by his life. A few years ago, Elijah Wald, who co-wrote Van Ronk’s posthumous memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street, heard that an unnamed filmmaker had optioned the rights to the book…

“I don’t think that the real enemy of the music industry is illegal downloading,” Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., professionally known as Perez Hilton, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I think the real enemy of the music industry is radio.” His words are bold, and he says them quite animatedly, but they served as the main source of…

Back in February, the New York Times reported on “We Buy White Albums,” an art installation by Rutherford Chang. Chang collected hundreds of first-edition vinyl copies of The Beatles, aka The White Album, “some in near-mint condition, others bearing former owners’ names, psychedelic renderings of ‘The Beatles,’ colorful drawings or, in many cases, patterns created…

This series of videos digs into the details of using the AlphaSphere as a MIDI controller. The first video, above, covers Preset One – a C Major scale that spirals upwards around the AlphaSphere….

Digital rights management doesn’t help the business of music — at least according to a new study by a PhD candidate in Strategic Management at the University of Toronto named Laurina Zhang. Several years after the major labels removed DRM from their digital music files in 2009 (after prodding from Apple), Zhang, using data primarily…

While in London, G.O.O.D. Music artist Pusha T stops by BBC 1 to have a quick chat with Zane Lowe. Of course, the two discuss Push’s latest album “My Name is My Name,” which the Virginia native declares “album of the year.” They also go on to chat about a possible Clipse album that Pharrell…