Pete Thorn is a great guitar player who’s not only toured with the likes of Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge and Chris Cornell, but on albums for Alicia Keys, Courtney Love, and many others. Here’s a great video where he describes the guitar and amp gear he uses in his studio, and the intelligent way it’s…

Jon Osborne asks us to listen and ponder the possibility that sound has a shape. He describes how sound moves, works and how it affects our daily unconscious experience, such as how we feel as we ourselves move through space. He believes that it’s possible to reintroduce refreshing sounds, like water fountains and playgrounds, back…

Last week, former hedge-fund manager Steven Lamar filed a legal action against Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and others regarding Beats Electronics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Earlier this month, it was reported that Apple is set to purchase Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion. Lamar accuses the Beats Electronics frontmen with breach of contract and is…

Last year, Dubspot presented a special sound design workshop with electronic producer and software programmer BT. This video captures BT discussing and demoing a free tool, Composers Desktop Project (CDP), that he uses for experimental sound design. CDP is a free command line application, for LInux, Mac & Windows, that runs from a DOS prompt or Terminal…

The number of paying Spotify subscribers has grown to 10 million globally, driven by mobile usage — noting a major landmark number for the music industry as it looks to monthly streaming services as the future of the business.  Yet it is the rate of growth in the music business’ No. 1 market in the…

After premiering her new single “Pills N Potions” this morning, Nicki Minaj made the radio rounds to promote the song. She chatted with Power 105′s “The Breakfast Club,” Hot 97′s “The Morning Show,” Power 106′s “Big Boy’s Neighborhood,” and KIIS FM’s Ryan Seacrest about everything from her new look to new female rappers….

The potential Twitter acquisition of audio-streaming platform SoundCloud would kill two birds with one stone. The popular audio-sharing service would grow under the ownership of one of the world’s biggest social media service. It would also help the social media service add much-needed users. Twitter has a growth problem. The company’s stock has plunged this…

Richard Branson wishes he’d known that the Internet would exist and that it would revolutionize the music industry. That’s what the billionaire founder and CEO of the Virgin Group says in a new LinkedIn post marking college graduation season. Since the fall of 2012, LinkedIn, the 11-year-old professional social networking site, has been running a…

Time is running out. The column I’d planned to run today fell apart. I need to find a replacement, and fast. As the reader you’ll get the last word, but I think I can pull this off. Top performers get called on all the time to bring their A-game with little notice. Sales professionals have to close…

Music Matters, the largest and most important music conference in Asia, starts Wednesday (May 21) in Singapore and runs through Friday with live music showcases for the event continuing through Saturday. The conference is part of a larger set of events titled All that Matters. This umbrella includes the YouTube FanFest, Social Matters and Digital…