A little less than a year ago, L.A. Reid met John Branca for dinner at Cecconi’s in West Hollywood. Reid had been the chairman and CEO of Epic Records (“the house that Thriller built,” as Reid calls it) since July 2011, and he’d inherited a cold label that so far hadn’t gotten much hotter. Branca…

Not all gifts come in neat packages, and this is definitely true of feedback. It is one of the more difficult tasks that business managers face, yet it is crucial for making workplace relationships more functional and people more productive, says Carole Robin, director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Very few…

IK Multimedia has released a series of videos that demonstrate the use of their new $25 iRing gestural controller with several iOS music applications. The iRings work with the cameras in iOS devices to sense the position of your hands and translate gestures into control over music apps. In the above video, iRing and the…

Many first-time music producers are unaware that there’s many more responsibilities required to complete a project that go beyond the music. One of those responsibilities is often booking studio time, but there’s usually a bit more to it than that. Here’s an excerpt from my Music Producer’s Handbook that describes the 5 types of studio…

It appears that Christine McVie will be returning to Fleetwood Mac to do more than play some old songs in concert. The group — sans Stevie Nicks, who was busy with “some other commitments,” according to Lindsey Buckingham — has just finished a nearly two-month run in Studio D at the Village Recorder in Los…

Sound Designer Morgan Johnson recently completed sound design and music on a short (proof of concept) animation that was produced by animators at Pixar and Directed by Everett Downing. [SoundWorks Collection]

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is not on the best terms with some of the most powerful women in entertainment. Less than a month after ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and NuvoTV outbid Combs and REVOLT TV for FUSE, Eva Longoria has some disparaging remarks for the Hip Hop mogul over his political endorsements of Ras Baraka. This past…

Award Winning Music Producer/Songwriter BridgeTown (Trey Songz “2Reasons “Ladies and a Drink”) (Mary J Blige “Love A Woman” Feat. Beyonce) (Austin Mahone “Banga Banga”) takes you behind the scenes of the instrumental creation of Kmichelle’s “Can’t Raise A Man”. Plus interviews and projects he’s done and new projects coming soon. New Artist,Songwriters,Producers are welcome to…

n this episode of DECODED YG breaks down the meaning behind “Really Be (Smokin N Drankin),” from his album debut album My Krazy Life. via Life+Times [RealTalkNY]

The Misfits’ unnecessarily plentiful merchandise could be taken as the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s shameless commodification of punk rock, but it’s also worth a lot of money — money founding singer Glenn Danzig is suing former bassist Gerald Caiafa, a.k.a. Jerry Only, for taking. Re-Tox broke the news that Danzig filed a lawsuit against Caiafa…