After two hit albums in two years and a series of huge arena tours, the Black Keys weren’t sure what to do next. “We were this-is-your-brain-on-drugs fried,” says frontman Dan Auerbach. After several stalled recording sessions, they finally got their answer at L.A.’s Sunset Sound studios last year, when they cut “Weight of Love” –…

The latest acquisition by Azoff MSG Entertainment (AMSGE), the joint venture between Azoff Music Management and the Madison Square Garden Company, sheds further light on CEO Irving Azoff’s master plan as the multifaceted firm continues to beef up its marketing holdings, this time through a 50% stake in celebrity and music procurement firm Burns Entertainment….

There’s been a lot of rumblings from Googleland again about the new YouTube streaming service that it’s preparing to introduce, with most of more recent ones being about how Google GOOG +1.65% is struggling with getting everything just right before it launches. There’s good reason for the company to be so cautious as there’s a…

A Brief Introduction to Hometown Hi-Fi and Sound System Culture The exhibition: My aim was to reposition Jamaican sound system culture where it belongs, at the beginning of all the practices of modern-day urban music, DJing, electro, the art of the remix, you name it. Often, people who are not into reggae specifically – especially…

Walmart, the largest retailer of CDs in the United States, plans to downsize the amount of space it devotes to discs by 40 percent and could reduce selection proportionately, say label sources. The company hopes to offset the potential sales loss by prominently displaying hit titles at the front of the entertainment department. This strategy…

Synopsis John McClane (Bruce Willis) and his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney) team up to protect a government informant in Moscow, and thwart a major crime in Chernobyl in this sequel from director John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines). Russian politics are in tatters when veteran detective McClane shows up in the nation’s capital,…

Who Zoë Sonquist King New gig Director, brand partnerships, Capitol Music Group Old gig Account manager, Cimarron Group Age 31 Describe your role at Capitol. Our team does anything from product placement to music videos. We work with others inside the company to create content that surrounds artists, and we sell to brands to align with…

The success of Apple’s iOS has led to an explosion of mobile music applications. Microsoft is working hard, though, to make its mobile ecosystem just as vibrant – and just as much a player in the area of mobile music making. This video captures an hour-long session at Microsoft’s Build 2014 conference that focuses on…

When “Move That Dope,” the latest single from Epic Records rapper Future, was released in March, its drug-chase music video got big play on YouTube and Vevo. But Epic’s real marketing coup was a retro-styled Internet video game that put players behind the wheel of a car, a la “Grand Theft Auto,” and challenged them…

A judge has reportedly ordered 50 Cent to pay Sleek, a headphone company the New York rapper once worked with, more than $16 million, according to Radar Online. 50 Cent’s legal issues with Sleek have been ongoing. In 2013, Sleek sued 50 Cent. The G-Unit head was set to work with Sleek and invested $1…