SoundCloud has officially partnered with Zefr – the tool which YouTube uses to help its partners detect when the copyright of their material has been infringed….

Solange Knowles’ business partner Armina Mussa has been stabbed 10 times, according to NOLA.com. Musa is currently in critical condition in a New Orleans hospital. She has gone through multiple surgeries….

Behind every star-packed lineup and muddy campground is a powerful live-music impresario. Check out 5 of the most important festival promoters in the business….

Listeners lose when music becomes fragmented….

The improvement stems from large increases in streaming activity, which drove music consumption in the United States up 14 percent in the first quarter, according to Nielsen Music. Notably, the streaming gains were able to cover any losses in physical and digital sales….

The man responsible for making sure Taylor Swift gets paid – VP of Finance for Big Machine Label Group, Brad Kash – has left the company to form 7th Wave Entertainment Group….

Dear Music Biz, It’s been a good, close, intimate and mostly wonderful 15 years… but I think we need some time apart. It’s not me. It’s you. You’ve changed. Digital music business, you used to be the scrappy underdog. They ignored you. Then they laughed at you. Then they fought you. You know what comes…

The crowded worlds of music festivals and technology conferences are converging in a three-day, invite-only gathering of what press materials for the event describe as “a community of nomads, dreamers and explorers in an awe-inspiring desert location.”…

Pandora, along with a handful of other music-related apps, will be available on Apple’s imminently launching Watch, according to a blog post from the company. Pandora was an early entrant on the iPhone as well, having been given a prototype ahead of the revolutionary device’s launch, according to company co-founder Tim Westergren….

In recent years, Chicago has picked up the nickname Chiraq as a result of the high rate of gun violence in the city. Acclaimed director Spike Lee is reportedly now signed on to film a movie for Amazon Studios called Chiraq….