Just what the world needs, another streaming service. Samsung recently announced that it launched a free online streaming music service that’s only available in the US and on its Galaxy phones. The service is called Milk Music, and offers over 200 curated streaming channels free of charge to Samsung customers. Milk Music is certainly a…

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled Thursday that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Europe can legally block piracy sites that illegally distribute copyright-protected material. The European branch of the Motion Picture Association hailed the verdict as a “proportionate and valid measure” and  “an important milestone in the creative industries’ ongoing efforts…

Thanks to the March 18 release of “Frozen” on DVD and Blu-ray, its soundtrack has scored its best sales week yet. The album spends a seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 202,000 copies in the week ending March 23 (up 104 percent), according to Nielsen SoundScan. That easily trumps its previous…

Angela Yee says that The Breakfast Club Show’s television program on REVOLT is going to be an accurate reflection of its radio show. “The plan is that the show is not supposed to change at all,” Yee says during an interview with Page31TV. “They’re just supposed to film what’s going on. They made it very…

MP3Tunes founder Michael Robertson has been ordered by a New York jury to pay about $41 million in damages for massive copyright infringement. The ruling on Wednesday comes a week after he was found liable in a lawsuit brought by Capitol Records, EMI and other record labels and music publishers. Reuters reports that verdict issued…

One of the things that musicians, engineers and producers sometimes have trouble with is how much to charge for their time. Here’s an excerpt from The Music Producer’s Handbook that covers the pros and cons of all the alternatives. It’s aimed at producers, but just as applicable to engineers, musicians, and any professional trying to…

Record operating profits at its European broadcasting division RTL Group lifted results for German media giant Bertelsmann, which posted its 2013 figures Wednesday. Total revenue was up by around 2 percent to $22.6 billion (€16.4 billion) last year, with net profits soaring 42 percent to $1.2 billion (€870 million). The still-booming TV market in Germany…

Somewhere on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco, inside a vault housed beneath the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, there sits an engraved silver-and-nickel box with the potential to spawn a shift in the way music is consumed and monetized. The lustrous container was handcrafted over the course of three months by British-Moroccan artist Yahya, whose works…

Bitwig has announced that Bitwig Studio, the highly anticipated and long-gestating new DAW, is now available for Linux, Mac & Windows. Here’s the text of their announcement: The Bitwig Team would like to take this special moment to thank you. Your excitement and encouragement brought us to a great milestone today. Bitwig Studio 1.0 is an…

De La Soul have been teasing their new mixtape, Smell the D.A.I.S.Y., all month, and now they’ve officially shared the project on BitTorrent. The release (featuring the previously released “Vocabulary Spills”) includes reworked rhymes alongside previously unheard beats from late production legend J Dilla. The mixtape also features the Dilla documentary Still Shining, Dilla wallpaper art and the audio…