Imagine Dragons rewrite Billboard Hot 100 history, as “Radioactive” (No. 26) logs its record-breaking 77th week on the chart. The total tops the mark previously established by Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours” in 2008-09. Meanwhile, AWOLNATION’s “Sail” (No. 40) collects its 76th week on the Hot 100, matching Mraz’s now-second-best longevity. “It’s unbelievable,” Imagine Dragons lead…

Hatcha – Terry Leonard – is such a larger-than-life character that on the surface of it, it’s puzzling why he isn’t a bigger star. In person, every word and gesture is effusive and expressive, his mannerisms part wideboy, part showbiz impresario, and he bubbles over with opinions, ideas and facts about the scene that he…

Diego Stocco is more than a composer. He’s an innovator, teacher, sound designer and performer, dedicated to exploring and sharing new techniques with the world. His one-of-a-kind instruments have led to work as a soloist for films like Sherlock Holmes and the game series Assassin’s Creed. Diego’s newest endeavor, Feedforward Sounds, is a video series teaching…

Stephen Kijak’s documentary on the revolutionary bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius, “Jaco,” will be the official film of this year’s Record Store Day and Omnivore Recordings will release a collection of unissued sessions by Pastorius from 1976. “Modern American Music . . . Period! The Criteria Sessions” contains 11 tracks recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami…

CC Media Holdings, the parent company of radio giant Clear Channel, on Thursday reported a widened fourth-quarter loss. The company, led by chairman and CEO Bob Pittman, posted a quarterly loss of $309.2 million, compared with a loss of $191.3 million in the year-ago period. Total revenue was virtually flat at $1.69 billion as media…

If you read any copyright related interview I did in the last decade, I probably sounded akin to a doomsday prophet. Not that I shouldn’t have. RIAA were suing soccer moms for hundreds of thousands of dollars, Net Neutrality was about to be abolished, SOPA was gaining enough momentum to where we were all positive…

For twelve years, “American Idol” has been one of the biggest success stories in the music industry. Even as the reality singing-competition series experiences some signs of aging, there is no doubt that the show has provided an immensely influential promotional platform for undiscovered talent and a sanctuary from some of the industry’s post-Napster blues….

On Los Angeles rapper ScHoolboy Q’s upcoming album, Oxymoron, the TDE artists’ past drug use is one of a variety of topics addressed on the LP. While speaking with Angie Martinez of Hot 97, Q further discussed his drug use, which he says consisted of using Percocet, Xanax, and lean. According to the West Coast…

If you’ve watched all the supplements on several Criterion releases over the past decade or so, you’ve no doubt seen some short pieces on how the company’s film restoration process works. But methods always change, and the Criterion workflow changes with new technology. One of the label’s latest releases is Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent, available…

Focusrite Audio Engineering this morning announced a ‘dream recording competition,’ in celebration of the company’s 25th Anniversary. Focusrite is giving one entrant an opportunity, for the winner and three bandmates, to record a track with Grammy Award-winning producer Guy Massey at AIR Studios in London, UK….