Hov is back in the headlines, but this time it’s strictly business. After over a decade, Jay Z and his longtime business manager John Meneilly have parted ways. The New York Daily News reports that the hip-hop mogul severed ties with Meneilly, who is credited as one of the architects of Roc Nation….

Coming in the wake of last week’s protest by European indie record labels over YouTube’s insistence on signing away their music rights for their reported new streaming service, U.S. independents are lashing out against the majors in the ongoing battle over digital dollars, according to a report by the N.Y. Post’s Claire Atkinson. The American…

Three weeks after rumors broke of Apple’s purchase of Beats Electronics, the company has confirmed that it is buying the headphone and streaming music service for $3 billion, $200 million less than the originally reported amount. Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, the company’s co-founders, will join Apple in unspecified roles as part of the deal….

Busta Rhymes owes $789,577.90 in taxes to the federal government, according to TMZ. The site says it has documents that shows the Department of Treasury has hit the rapper with two tax bills. One is for the $611,000 its says Busta Rhymes failed to pay in 2008. The other bill is tied to his 2012…

Whether you’re recruiting a talented executive or trying to reach an actual decison-maker for a key sale, you’ll improve your job performance if you have a stronger personal network. That much, you know. Actually doing it is another matter. A recent post by Deborah Petersen on the Stanford Graduate School of Business site provides 10 fantastic tips on…

To help streamline and modernize the way music is licensed, the RIAA wants new blanket licenses and market-based royalty rates to replace the current system of one-by-one licensing and rates set by courts. These and other suggestions were made in the RIAA’s response to the U.S. Copyright Office’s request for comment on music licensing. The…

Right as Apple confirmed the official purchase of BeatsByDre, Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine announced that he was stepping down from the label. Iovine has served as Chairman and CEO of Interscope for the past 25 years, easily making him the most successful label head in history. John Janick is set to take over Iovine’s spot at…

This video, One Square Inch of Silence, takes a ‘listening journey’ with professional sound recordist Gordon Hempton to a Hoh Rain Forest location in Olympic National Park. Hempton is an acoustic ecologist, interested in preserving not just the way the earth naturally looks, but how it naturally sounds. While audio ecology and synthesis may seem unrelated, both are…

Over the past few years, major record labels have been attempting to put out a legal firestorm from recording artists who claim to have been cheated on digital music. Some labels like Sony and Warner have agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle class actions. Not Universal Music Group. The major has been fighting…

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