Months after YDB, son of the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, stated that he was looking for Dame Dash and wanted the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder to return his father’s masters, Dame has spoken out on the matter….

Renowned “Halo” music composer Marty O’Donnell has prevailed in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the president of Bungie, the original developers of the popular sci-fi shooter series. A judge in King County, Wash. has approved a settlement awarding O’Donnell more than $95,000. O’Donnell was fired on April 11 from Bungie, where he worked as audio…

Common returned to the Breakfast Club today to plug his album, Nobody’s Smiling. He spoke contribution to end the violence in Chicago, pas relationship with Serena Williams, feud and reconciling with Drake, signing to Def Jam, advice he shares with Kanye and more. His chat and freestyle on Hot 97′s Ebro In The Morning below….

  Watermarking audio files is nothing new, but a team of international researchers think they’ve found a way to improve it. On June 30, scientists from Sydney’s Deakin University and Aizu University in Japan published an article about their new watermarking technology, which they say is better-designed to resist music pirates’ attempts to strip audio…

Kendrick Lamar took the game by storm in 2012 when his highly anticipated debut album, good kid, m.A.A.d. city, sold over 240,000 copies in its first week of availability, and was eventually certified platinum, despite his refusal to sacrifice the sonic integrity of his album to fit the Top 40 theme of radio.  His verses…

littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir is featured on the latest episode of Popular Mechanics‘ Meet The Makers series. With littleBits, Bdeir is turning electronics into a resource—like cardboard, plywood, or fabric—that any designer can use….

Five months after the record company founded by American Idol creator Simon Fuller brought a blockbuster lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment for allegedly cheating artists such as Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken and Carrie Underwood, a New York federal judge is being asked to make an early determination about the claims. The litigation explores quite a…

In honor of World Listening Day 2014, the team behind the upcoming film In Pursuit of Silence (coming 2015) released a clip featuring footage they acquired during their visit to Denali last April. In the clip, National Park Service Soundscape Technician Davyd Betchkal discusses the importance of listening and it’s relationship to experiencing a place….

Two Google executives, one former and one current, are getting (very) close to Spotify, according to a report from Re/code this afternoon. Omid Kordestani, Google’s current interim chief business officer, will be joining Spotify’s board, according to Re/code’s sources. Shishir Mehrota, a VP of product at YouTube and VP of video at Google, will also…

In an interview with GQ, West stated, when asked about how far away the next record was, that it could come as early as September, which is just over a month away. “I think most likely September,” he stated, noting that while he goes “back and forth,” he should have one of the songs out…