Broadcast Music, Inc. presented its annual pre-GRAMMY event, “How I Wrote That Song,” on January 25, 2014, at The House of Blues West Hollywood. The panel featured a diverse mixture of hitmakers including GRAMMY-nominated writer Linda Perry, ACM and CMA award-winning wordsmith Dallas Davidson, GRAMMY-nominated MC Wiz Khalifa, GRAMMY-nominated producer Alex Da Kid and GRAMMY-nominated…

Apple has repurchased $14 billion of its stock in the two weeks after its first-quarter financial results and second-quarter revenue outlook disappointed investors. Its shares rose in morning trading Friday….

“Music” “fans” continue to chase the Dragon: after their pair of performances for the Grammys and SNL, both times with Kendrick Lamar, Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” went from #29 on the Billboard charts to #4. Not only that, but the Killers-lite are about to tie, then break a noteworthy Billboard Hot 100 record. Most total weeks…

Warner Music Group narrowed its losses to $37 million and grew revenues to $815 million in its fiscal first quarter, ended Dec. 31. While that’s an improvement from the $80 million net loss the company posted for the corresponding quarter in 2012, as well as growth over the $769 million in revenue WMG posted in…

On January 15, Chicago emcee Chance The Rapper showed his appreciation for T-Pain‘s music in a tweet saying, “Yo huge fan lets work!” “I just saw it [tweet by Chance The Rapper] on the way here,” T-Pain says during an the interview with RapUpTV. “Eah. That’s happening…Chance The Rapper, I’m down with that. He’s just as…

It was a perfect success story: A composer overcomes his deafness to become a widely beloved cultural icon. No, we’re not talking about . This was the story arc for 50-year-old Mamoru Samuragochi, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary composers, whose music became a best-selling album and is heard in the video games Resident Evil…

Diddy is set to be a co-executive producer of Rick Ross’ Mastermind, the rapper’s sixth album which is slated to be released March 4 on Maybach Music Group / Def Jam Recordings. Diddy has produced several albums, including executive producer credits on The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die and Life After Death, among others. He’s also…

A number of rare recordings from Oasis and The Stone Roses are to be auctioned off later this month, it has been revealed. Omega Auctions in Stockport will have a number of demo recordings from both Manchester bands up for sale on February 21 and 22. Items set to go under the hammer include Oasis’s…

he 2014 NAMM Show was another great year for the event – the weather was fantastic, there were tons of new synths and interesting gear introduced and we got to see a lot of people passionate about synths and electronic music. Here’s our pick of the best new gear that was either introduced at the…

Vanguard Records is diving deep into the freak folk-spawned nouveau boho scene. Easy Sound Recording Company, a new imprint based in Los Angeles, announces its launch today. Among the artists on its roster are the San Francisco-based bands Vetiver and Papercuts along with psych-rockers Howlin Rain, garage rock foursome the Donkeys and Rodrigo Amarante of…