Apple faces another expansive legal battle after a California court granted a three-year-old lawsuit over labor codes class-action status. The original suit, filed by four hourly employees in 2011, claims the company failed to provide appropriate lunch and rest breaks as required by state law. On Monday, Judge Ronald S. Prager of the Superior Court…

The Los Angeles County D.A. has charged Ray J with 10 crimes, according to TMZ. One charge that the D.A. and the police disagree on is regarding sexual battery. As reported in May, following Ray J’s arrest in Beverly Hills, California, TMZ said the following of the incident: “He somehow made contact with a woman’s butt…

Last week, Beats Electronics obtained a restraining order against several copyright and trademark infringing websites alleged to sell counterfeit headphones. The lawsuit, filed July 9, ordered an injunction in Illinois against these online outlets and is the fifth such complaint filed by Beats this year. As well as highlighting the recently Apple-acquired brand’s ongoing struggle…

After three years on Cash Money Records, Busta Rhymes told Sway on Shade 45 that he’s parted ways from the label. He says there’s no hard feelings, but he left due to creative differences. Elsewhere in the interview, he speaks on his collabo with Eminem and Loaded Lux’s slight at Total Slaughter. [RapRadar]

This video, via rolandmedia, is a quick demo of using the Roland TR-8 live as a sound module. Nate Morton, drummer for The Voice, demonstrates how he uses a Roland TR-8 Rhythm Performer as a sound module with a TD-15KV V-Drums kit. [Synthtopia]

How does a streaming company turn a profit? There’s one good example: Netflix, which released second-quarter earnings Monday. Netflix is the only publicly traded company that deals almost entirely in the streaming of licensed digital media. Streaming accounted for 85.5% of the company’s $1.34 billion of revenue last quarter. The remainder, $195 million, came from…

Know what you’re spending. The most important money principle for everyone — freelancer and full-timer — is to spend less than you earn . So knowing where your money goes is key to proper budgeting. If you don’t already, track your spending. You can do this in whatever way you are most likely to stick with…

Who is Joie Manda? Why is his name being mentioned so much these days? Is he a “culture vulture”? How did he get to be a representative of Black music? For someone who hasn’t done a lot of public speaking, he speaks a great deal about these questions and more on this one….

Los Angeles groove band Vulfpeck’s silent album ‘Sleepify’ may have been a mere prank intended to rack up play counts and royalties, or perhaps it was a more sophisticated act of digital performance art. It’s definitely been a rocky road — but either way, the inaudible ten-track recording has delivered the band a very real…

There’s a little-known scientific field known as archaeoacoustics that studies the sound of historical environments and its effects on the human body. These environments can vary from ancient temples to caves, but it’s been discovered that they all have a similar quality – a resonant frequency between 70 and 130Hz. Most of the cavities that…