The guys at Tip Top Audio made the trip over from their Silicon Valley HQ to show off their compact modular system. [Sonic State]

The Frozen soundtrack is about to meet Titanic in the history books. Industry sources forecast the Frozen album to sell around 85,000 copies in the tracking week ending on Sunday, Feb. 23. That could be enough to secure the No. 1 slot on next week’s Billboard 200 — for the album’s fifth nonconsecutive week atop…

Salsa greats and social activists Rubén Blades and Willie Colon have, separately, been the most outspoken of the many music artists who have expressed solidarity this week with protestors in Venezuela. In the case of Blades, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro spoke back. Earlier this week, another Venezuelan official publically mocked Rihanna’s less committed Tweet of…

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson spent much of his early life yearning for a record deal with one of the major labels. After a run with Universal-backed Interscope that began in 2003 and saw him sell over 30 million albums, he’s spent much of the past few years itching to leave. Yesterday, he got his wish:…

More than a decade before their current stint as Jimmy Fallon’s late night house-band, The Roots became a highly regarded collective of musicians and emcees on the cusp of gaining recognition aside from rap nerds and critics. While their prior album’s spawned a hit or two, the crew truly hit their stride with the 1999…

ScHoolBoy Q hits The Breakfast Club show to discuss his album, “Oxymoron,” TDE, Kendrick Lamar and more. [Real Talk NY]

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“Silent” is an animated short film created by Academy Award® winning Moonbot Studios. It celebrates how storytellers, inventors, and technology work together to create cinema magic. The story follows two street performers who dream of bringing their “Picture and Sound Show” to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark…

Dapper Dan, a stylist and fixture in Hip Hop fashion named in Rap songs by Jay Z, Nas, Brother Ali and Masta Ace, among others, recently spoke about Kanye West during an interview with Vice primarily focused on masculinity and fashion. “Kanye is making a mistake,” says Dapper Dan, referring to West’s recent complaints regarding the fashion…

If there is a queen of rock, then it must be Heart’s Ann Wilson. She truly has one of music’s great voices and you hear it in all its glory on “Barracuda,” the1977 hit from the album Little Queen. There are some cool things to listen for. 1. The vocal is pretty spot-on tuning-wise, which…