Zane Lowe chats to Chris Martin from Coldplay. The full interview. Facilities courtesy of Amos Clarke Produced by Lee Edmenson [BBC Radio 1]

  Film composers get paid a lot of money (well, they used to) to translate what’s on the screen to emotive music, but did you ever wonder what your favorite novel would sound like? A new project called from a programmer/musician and an officer of the National Research Council of Canada have come up with…

Pasquale Rotella Founder/CEO, Insomniac Events More than a year ago, Live Nation Entertainment finalized a deal to buy a piece of Insomniac Events, the premier EDM festival brand that CEO Rotella, 39, a visionary in the electronic sector, built during the last 20 years. The deal was valued by some to be as high as…

Lupe speaks on Talib Kweli comment , Not dealing with Obama Politics , Shootings and Deaths in Chiraq , CIA Letter , New Album and more with DJ WHOO KID [Real Talk NY]

Google has acquired music-streaming service Songza after weeks of speculation about a potential deal. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the New York Post reported in early June that Google had bid at least $15 million for the fledgling company, which offers up free curated music playlists. Google announced the deal on its…

One year and 100 million legal downloads later, the BitTorrent Bundle platform — an online marketplace for ‘Bundles,’ in which content creators can distribute a combination of free and “gated” content — is increasingly taking hold as a viable marketing and distribution platform. Most recently, rapper G-Eazy made available a BitTorrent Bundle composed of unreleased…

Many individuals suffer from not knowing the worth of their own value. When it comes to their work ethic they truly do not know how much they are worth. Forbes breaks it down for us, so that people know their worth. 1.  “I’m having so much trouble having people hire me as is.  It would…

(Reuters) – A rare Stradivari viola, considered to be one of the finest musical instruments in the world, failed to sell in a sealed bid auction with a minimum bid of $45 million (£26.5 million), Sotheby’s said on Wednesday. The “Macdonald” viola, which was made by the famous Italian artisan Antonio Stradivari in 1719, is…

Get More: Lil Wayne, Music News Lil Wayne still isn’t sure when he will be releasing, “Tha Carter V,” and, “Da Other Album(DOA).” [Real Talk NY]

After a series of DMCA takedown notices stripped his Soundcloud, DJ and producer Kaskade — née Ryan Raddon — responded on Tumblr to call out music copyright laws for being out of touch with the modern digital landscape. “These laws and page takedowns are cutting us down at the knees,” Raddon attested. “Countless artists have launched…