Martin Gore makes note of his “old school” tendencies on a recent phone call. He appreciates that music-making technology has become so portable and accessible that people can create with minimal equipment. However, that’s not his style….

Lars Rasmussen, the Danish software engineer whose company Where 2 Technologies was acquired in 2004 by and transformed into Google Maps, has departed his most recent position as director of engineering at Facebook to work on an unnamed music startup with fiance Elomida Visviki. The UK’s filing repository Companies House lists Cute Little Apps as…

Stockholm’s population may be just over 2 million people (one quarter of New York City). Yet it’s home to over 22,000 startups, and has been responsible for more than a half-dozen billion-dollar brands: Ikea, H&M, Skype, King (makers of Candy Crush), Ericsson and Spotify among them. Yet it’s never had its own South By Southwest…

One of the questions most frequently asked by artists who are enrolled in the YouTube Monetization program is “how much money will I earn per view?” A closer look at the process for determining WHEN, HOW, and WHAT advertisements are displayed on any YouTube videos that feature your music provides those answers….

Praise Jesus, or better yet, the Black Messiah, because D’Angelo is returning to save (or soothe) our souls with his Second Coming tour….

Having faced a battering in the media and the music industry in the three weeks following its puffed-up press conference, Tidal owner Jay Z has publicly defended the service – and revealed that it has attracted 770,000 paying subscribers to date….

Pandora has revealed that its royalty payments to SoundExchange, the US licensing body which collects performance royalties on behalf of record labels and artists, have just increased by 8%….

Effective June 2, sports and entertainment firm Comcast-Spectacor will brand its three business units — Global Spectrum (venue management), Ovations Food Services (concessions) and Paciolan (ticketing) — and launch a digital services division under the new Spectra banner….

Music-industry sources say Apple is interfering with Jay Z’s music-streaming service Tidal in an attempt to crush it ahead of the relaunch of Apple’s Beats Music, set for June….

James Grant, CEO of Involved Management, has been approached many times over the years by various brands wanting to get involved with his biggest client, arena-filling dance trio Above and Beyond. But it wasn’t until a January 2014 tweet from John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, that he gave a brand partnership serious consideration….