Does it make sense to compare the music industry’s streaming platforms to Netflix? The jury’s out – not least because the platform’s been able to take advantage of an existing ‘rental’ mentality amongst TV and movie consumers, as well as converting its previous physical customers into streamers….

Jay Z is planting more roots at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Nearly three years after becoming the venue’s first performer on Sept. 28, 2012, the rapper’s Roc Nation Music has inked a multi-year deal with the 19,000-capacity venue to create special programming including festivals, artist performances and showcases, Tidal-related events and an annual concert from Shawn Carter himself….

While the landscape of recorded music is littered with countless famous instances of collaboration between artists it seems that, despite the connectivity of the modern world, many of the creative players in the music industry today are choosing to go solo. Here we look at why that might be, and what can be done to rectify the situation….

Flipagram, a popular mobile app that sets music to short photo-video segments — think if Instagram and YouTube had a baby — announced on Thursday it has secured a comprehensive set of licensing deals with major and indie labels, distributors and publishers. …

The final numbers on the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., are in, and it’s another Boxscore record for the world’s highest-grossing festival, produced by Goldenvoice, a division of AEG Live….

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … it would be difficult to imagine a lineup of artists quite like this. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts says Star Wars creator George Lucas, groundbreaking actresses Rita Moreno and Cicely Tyson, singer Carole King, rock band the Eagles and acclaimed music director Seiji Ozawa will…

Many surveys have shown that people most commonly discover music through radio and YouTube, but a new study aims to highlight not only the role concerts play in music discovery, but the high-value fans they draw in as well….

Neil Young has made a big stink about sound quality in recent years, and he continued to do so today, posting a Facebook message and accompanying tweet indicating that he’s taking his music off streaming services because the audio isn’t up to snuff….

The Grateful Dead‘s farewell tour, along with large festivals like Coachella, have been garnering increasingly massive audiences through their live streams. What does this mean for the companies providing the streaming service, and their ability to monetize the phenomenon?…

Investors continue to look for the startup(s) that can disrupt ticketing and challenge Ticketmaster. Today, San Francisco-based Ticketfly closed a $50 million round of Series D financing led by Riverwood Capital. Ticketfly will use the funds to accelerate development of its cloud-based live events platform and help fuel the company’s move into larger facilities and global expansion. Ticketfly’s total funding to date is…