Fresh off the stage at Power 106’s “Valentine’s Crush” concert in L.A., Big Sean liberates his lost verse to Drake and Lil Wayne’s “Used To,” which appears on both Drake’s new mixtape If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and Weezy’s mixtape Sorry 4 the Wait 2….

  A One Direction fan’s dream came true when Liam Payne agreed to take her GoPro on stage — and filmed fellow musician Niall Horan‘s butt….

Sam Andrew, the guitarist and founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company who also helped launch the career of Janis Joplin, passed away February 12th, ten weeks after he suffered a heart attack which was followed by complications from an open-heart surgery. Andrew was 73….

A recognizable name on a small label was a successful equation at this year’s Grammy Awards. Although major labels won the majority of the big categories at this year’s Grammys and were able to beat smaller labels in head-to-head matchups, independent labels came away with dozens of awards….

Drake’s surprise release last night has everyone a bit confused. Mostly, is this thing a mixtape or an album? One one hand, it’s got 17 full tracks and is currently for sale on iTunes and streaming on Spotify — that points to album. But it’s not the same title as the album Drake’s been promising…

One might say that we need another audio format like we need a hole in the head, but here’s a new one that actually makes some sense. The good people at high-end Meridian Audio have come up with an interesting way to pack a lossless encode into an MP3 container….

The Brighton newcomer takes the song’s lyrics literally….

Taylor Swift is showing off her haunting style in her latest music video….

Not content to let Kanye West and Drake dominate the NBA All Star Game hip-hop press, notable pear enthusiast Rick Ross and his Maybach Music Group cohorts just dropped the NYC All-Star ’15 Mixtape. Featuring a bunch of tracks that’ve already hit the web in some form, the tape still boasts standout cuts from Ross himself as well…

Developer Denis Kutuzov has released an update to Navichord – an instrument and MIDI controller for the iPad – adding Audiobus and Inter-App Audio support and more….