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Ever wonder who the man behind Chris Brown’s Loyal, Sean Kingston’s Beat It, Mase’s Mothing & many many more is?  I’d like to introduce yall to my brother Nic Nac repping that Bay Area,  check out the dope piece that revolt did with him. #YoungCalifornia…

When the members of the NPR Music team gathered to nominate songs for our mid-year favorites list, we discovered something: Half of our favorite pop songs in the summer of 2014 were actually released in 2013. This wasn’t a huge surprise. As Chris Molanphy explained published at just this time last year, the Top of…

Director Michael Bay and Producer Steven Spielberg return this summer for the fourth film in the Transformers franchise, Transformers: Age of Extinction. The amazing visual effects in this film are complemented by the talented efforts of the sound team including Re-recording Mixer Greg Russell, Re-recording Mixer Jeff Haboush, Re-recording Mixer Scott Millan and Supervising Sound…

American Keyworks let us know about their unique new keyboard, the Thorium AK-24 Bowman, that combines a traditional piano keyboard with a real bowable, bendable string. “We love keyboards!” they note. But they add, “We have always wished they sounded more ‘real’ than some of the microchip based stuff we had access to. So we built…

Lupe Fiasco says he has a drive to release music for a very specific reason. “[I want to] just get this out before the Fall, so I can put out the next one so I can be done with this company,” Lupe Fiasco says in an interview with Los Angeles radio station Power 106’s Rikki…

In a deal rumored for weeks, Google has finally acquired the music streaming service Songza for a reported $15 million. There appears to be no immediate plans to change the service, according to a post on the Songza site, except to “make it faster, smarter, and even more fun to use.” But what’s the real…

Lil Durk speaks on running into The Game in LA and ending the beef with him. [Real Talk NY]

Eight years after starring in Idlewild, André Benjamin aka André 3000 returns to the big screen in Jimi: All Is By My Side. The reclusive OutKast rapper plays the legendary Jimi Hendrix in the revealing biopic, directed by John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). The film, co-starring Hayley Atwell and Imogen Poots, documents a year…

Officials with Vanderbilt University say the school has purchased the Sony Music Nashville building on Music Row in Nashville, near Vandy’s campus. Vanderbilt officials say administrative staff who work in leased office space surrounding campus will be consolidated in the Sony property and that it will also be used for academic purposes….