Besides the acknowledgement that Garth Brooks is about to announce a major tour and that he has signed a record deal with Sony Music Nashville  to release his new album, the big news from the country superstar’s press conference for music retail and consumers is that his album will be coming out sometime in November,…

Here’s a fascinating piece of music history. It’s the isolated bass and drums from David Bowie’s first hit, the classic “Space Oddity.” The song features a completely different lineup from future Bowie albums, and included session drummer Terry Cox, legendary bass player Herbie Flowers (also responsible for the famous bass lines on Lou Reed’s “Walk…

A Nightmare.   Meek Mill had his day in court today to answer to a probation violation charge. According to Philly’s Fox 29, the rapper was given 3 to 6 months in jail. Karen Civil reports, he will be released 3-4 weeks. [RapRadar]

Sony/ATV Music Publishing sent a letter to its songwriters in the last day, updating them on where the company stands with regards to performance rights, re-iterating Martin Bandier’s intention to withdraw from the two U.S. major performing rights organizations and also reveals the news that the company is appealing both the ASCAP and BMI Pandora…

LeBron James, who played the first seven of his 11 seasons in the NBA with the Cleveland Caveliers before moving to win two championships in four years with the Miami Heat, says he’s returning to his original team. “Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio,” LeBron…

Chris Brown and Drake have officially left the beef behind. The superstars were spotted in an L.A. studio last night, possibly cooking up a new collaboration. Kosine, one half of production duo Da Internz, posted a photo of Drizzy and Breezy side by side listening to music. “Ay @ericbellinger should we give these niggaz more…

While speaking with Complex recently, Gaithersburg, Maryland rapper Logic says his debut album received quite the comparison when friend and fellow musician OB compared the project to Kanye West’s Graduation and Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city….

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feelyoursound.com has released Sundog Scale Studio for Mac OS X. The stand-alone software connects to other DAWs and hardware instruments via MIDI and sends note commands to trigger chords and melodies. Developer Hauke Menges describes the software: “The main focus of Sundog lies on writing harmonic EDM songs from scratch without having to worry about…

Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics is suing a group of websites based in China, alleging that the sites are making billions of dollars in profit by selling counterfeit Beats Electronics headphones, according to a lawsuit obtained by TMZ. The story says that the fake headphones sport the “b” logo featured on Beats’ headphones and have generated…