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Before she became one of the most famous pop stars in the world, Katy Perry was the almost-famous Katy Hudson, a Christian rock singer who was more Alanis Morissette than Madonna. Her eponymous debut album, released in 2001, was a total failure, selling only 200 copies, so Hudson changed her name, changed her looks, and…

Headphone technology, just like loudspeakers, hasn’t changed much in about a hundred years, but Blue Microphones is trying to take things to another level with the introduction of its Mo-Fi headphones. The company teased the product as far back as Winter NAMM without actually showing it, but now the Mo-Fi’s appear to be finally ready….

Back in January, Disclosure and Mary J. Blige teamed up for a new version of Settle‘s “F For You”. The remix proved immensely popular with fans, and Blige eventually joined the duo onstage at New York City’s Terminal 5 to sing the track. A few months later, the R&B diva was featured on another reworked another British hit: this time, Sam Smith‘s…

Jessie Ware will release her much-anticipated second album next month, and today she unveiled another track from the record called “Want Your Feeling,” the British singer’s collaboration with Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes. Tough Love, the follow-up to Ware’s 2012 breakthrough Devotion, will be released stateside on October 21. Hynes, who as Pitchfork reports was the one who…

Led by gains in streaming revenues, digital accounted for 82 percent of Denmark’s recorded music revenues in the first half of the year, up from 74 percent a year earlier, trade group IFPI announced Tuesday….

  “I’ma ride with her,” T.I. says. “So, ya’ll go ahead. Anybody got a problem with it just know it gon’ be one ’cause I’m coming.” With his Paperwork: The Motion Picture album still on the way, T.I. spoke with Complex News about collaborating with Young Thug and Pharrell executive producing his next release. He…

The gift that keeps on giving. There are some albums that will never go unspoken and Illmatic is one of them. Earlier this year, on the 20th anniversary of one of hip-hop’s most legendary albums, Nas announced a new documentary and tour celebrating the release. This week, a new trailer for the documentary, to be…

Taylor Swift has reportedly joined The Voice as the universal adviser for season 6. The “Shake It Off” singer will help all four coaches — Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams — as they strategize with their remaining teammates for the second round of battles. The round pits singers from the same…