Spotify is looking at popular streaming service Netflix’s for clues on getting it’s own streaming service to grow. The company has added Barry McCarthy, a former chief financial officer of Netflix, to become a member of it’s board. Check out more details below. McCarthy’s appointment, first reported in Re/code, comes at a key time for…

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their classic 1989 debut 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul will make their entire discography available for free download for 25 hours, from Friday, February 14th at 11am EST until Saturday at noon. “It’s about allowing our fans who have been looking and trying to get a…

Comcast Corp. will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in a deal that would combine the nation’s top two cable TV companies and create a dominant force in creating and delivering entertainment. The all-stock deal, which was approved by the boards of both companies, trumps a proposal from Charter Communications to buy…

The good folks at WhoSampled put together a small chart showing the most sampled hip-hop artists of all time. Check it out above, more details below: Hip Hop, along with most modern music, relies heavily on the work of others. Whether its a subconscious influence or a directly sampled snippet, music is a collaborative art….

This week, Pharrell‘s “Happy” becomes the highest-charting Oscar-nominated song in more than a decade. The tune, which is nominated for best original song at this year’s Academy Awards, jumps from No. 8 to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. It was written by Pharrell for the animated film Despicable Me 2….

According to several members of Slaughterhouse, the group is currently at work crafting their next studio album, Glass House. In the time since the rap quartet announced that they would be releasing a follow up to Welcome to: Our House, the album has been described as “edgy” and “rebellious” by Crooked I and boasting a…

In this video, DJ Tech Tool’s Mad Zach shares his thoughts on three ways of working with a MIDI-conntected hardware synthesizer in an Ableton Live production environment. “Experimenting on a synth leads to sounds that sometimes seem wildly unique,” says Mad Zach. “Recording yourself and the progression of playing around with the patches and manipulating…

Mariah Carey speaks on her upcoming album, American Idol, her marriage and more with The Breakfast Club. [UpRoxx]  

In October, San Francisco-based art director and music aficionado Lane Jordan read that four million songs on Spotify have never been played. Put another way, one-fifth of its on-demand music catalog of over 20 million songs haven’t once been heard by Spotify’s active global user base of 24 million, according to the service’s 2013 year-end…

4ms Quad Clocking Harmonies (Modular Lullaby) from Richard Devine on Vimeo. This patch focused on using the 4ms Quad clocking distributor (QCD) module as the main brain to trigger the drums and musical sequences. The source clocking generator was the delptronics triggerman running in pattern mode. I set up 8 stored sequences that had slightly…