Korg Gadget is a new virtual studio for iPad that features what they call “The ultimate mobile synth collection on your iPad.” In the latest episode of Sonic Touch, Nick and Gaz take a look at Gadget, and explain why they think it’s a ‘killer app’. Korg Gadget is available for US $39.99 in the…

The upfront season — when media companies secure some $20 billion in early advertising buys with TV, cable and radio networks and online content companies — is underway, and increasingly, music-industry giants Live Nation, Clear Channel and Vice are gunning for a slice of that ad-dollar pie. Online music-video outlets such as Vevo and YouTube…

Funk rockers Vulfpeck tested Spotify’s royalty-payment policies last month when they released Sleepify, a 10-track album consisting wholly of silence. Now it appears they have flunked, as the music-streaming service has removed the album from its registry, according to Hypebot. The record allegedly would have netted the L.A. funksters $20,000 from the many times people have…

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Gwen Stefani is being wooed by multiple suitors. According to sources, the No Doubt frontwoman, 44, was close to signing on as a judge for ABC’s summer singing competition Rising Star before choosing NBC’s “The Voice.” Helping sway the singer’s vote? Mega manager Irving Azoff (Eagles, Van Halen, Chelsea Handler). He suggested Stefani replace another…

Sally Ferreira filed the defamation suit against Fiddy, claiming he FALSELY accused her last month of spreading rumors she was dating the rapper — as well as leaking behind-the-scenes photos from his music video shoot. [RealTalkNY]

50 Cent has ruined a video vixen’s life — getting her blacklisted in the business by calling her a “thirsty video bitch” in front of millions of people — or so the woman claims … and now she wants millions to call it even. Sally Ferreira filed the defamation suit against Fiddy, claiming he FALSELY…

While Archie Bang was in high school, a professor noticed his Rap skills and felt he should be involved in the industry. She got the teenage emcee an internship with Rawkus Records, a record label founded in 1997, which helped catapult the careers of many emcees, including Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey), Talib…

The April 18 announcement that Prince had re-signed with his first label, Warner Bros. Records, where he had resided from 1978 to 1996 and produced some of his best-selling and most compelling work, came as a shock to the music industry and fans alike. For one thing, the artist’s fallout with Warners had been so…

There are some songs that everyone knows regardless of their age because the songs are always played on the radio somewhere every single day. Chicago’s “25 or 6 To 4” from the band’s second album (Chicago II as some call it) is one of these iconic songs. Here’s a number of the tracks from that…