According to the case filing, UMG “did not provide academic or vocational training,” yet the plaintiff “regularly worked between forty and fifty hours a week,” performing tasks such as “stocking drinks, delivering mail, organizing storage rooms, delivering packages across town, working with retailers, calling retailers to check on advertising displays and inventory, and attending…

Aimée Osbourne can’t get the glitter off her face. It’s a cool spring day, and she has just returned to the swank Tribeca hotel where she’s staying, ordered a vodka-soda and settled into a seat in the lobby. The singer, who is surprisingly tall, somewhat soft-spoken and always affable, had been at a photo shoot,…

The final day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival felt like a relaxing exhale compared to the breath-holding day before, which had an untenably large attendance. Sundays in the South are big on gospel, and both of Jazz Fest’s Sundays reflected that. The Blind Boys of Alabama gave a stirring performance in the Gospel…

Picking hip-hop’s greatest songs is an incredibly difficult (and incredibly fun) undertaking, considering the various styles that have splintered the genre every way imaginable. Now 40 years old, hip-hop no more belongs to Bronx originators than it does to today’s kids; its popularity has stretched to all corners, and the various mutations reflect that. Our…

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The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple’s business practices in relation to its upcoming music streaming service, according to multiple sources. The Verge has learned that Apple has been pushing major music labels to force streaming services like Spotify to abandon their free tiers, which will dramatically reduce the competition for Apple’s upcoming…

Songwriting credits for “Uptown Funk!” went to four people initially: Ronson, Mars, Phillip Martin Lawrence and Jeffrey Bhasker. However, before the song was even released it had gained two more: Nicholas Williams (AKA Trinidad James) and producer Devon Gallaspy, the authors of “All Gold Everything,” both receiving a share for a sampling interpolation. This credit…

Danish-born computer scientist Lars Rasmussen, the co-creator of Google Maps, is launching a music start-up….

Reports of a massive injection of funding for Spotify have been bubbling up since January, the latest in a report from CNBC Friday night (the second of its kind) saying that the company had closed on a large round from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street firm that has reportedly been leading the fundraising….

The most recent winner of American Idol (at least until Season 14 wraps up soon), Caleb Johnson, has announced plans for a new album and, more interestingly, a new record label. The performer made it clear during an interview with Billboard that he would be cutting ties with Interscope after releasing his debut Testify, the record required…