Warner Music Group, rapper Nas and a private equity fund operated by four famous DJs are among the new backers in cloud-based mastering service LANDR. Additional participants in the $6.2-million funding round were prior investor YUL Ventures, Real Ventures and Cirque Du Soleil founders Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier….

Physical album sales might have fallen across America in the first half of 2015, but independent retailers are bucking the trend. US indies saw CD/vinyl/cassette album sales increase 0.6% year-on-year from Jan-June, according to new stats, up to 8.9m….

Fare Thee Well, the Grateful Dead 50th anniversary shows that also puts a cap on one of the most remarkable live music careers in music history, wrapped Sunday night at Soldier Field in record-setting fashion….

Prince Harvey needed to make an album. So after his computer crashed, he spent four months in an Apple store singing the entire thing into a display computer. Standing in the middle of the Upper West Side’s Apple Store in Manhattan, 25-year-old artist and rapper Prince Harvey seemed at home, almost like he knew what…

The Weeknd‘s forthcoming album will apparently feature a collaboration with Kanye West, Ed Sheeran has revealed….

Miguel’s new R&B wonderland WILDHEART may bring to mind a host of the watery crooners that have surfaced in the time since Kaleidoscope Dream, but you may want to steer clear from comparing him to one of the genre’s other contemporary paragons. In an interview with The Sunday Times, via NME, the current SPIN cover…

Disclosure have confirmed that they have collaborated with Lorde for their upcoming LP. The electronic duo recently announced that their own second record ‘Caracal’ will be released on September 25….

Taylor Swift is enjoying her continued run of fantastic accomplishments. Coming off her looked-totally-fabulous Fourth of July party and 1989 World Tour dates, she got some more good news, and she immeadiately took to Twitter to celebrate….

Indie music bible the NME is to be given away free after circulation for the 63 year-old title slumped to below 15,000 paid copies….

Scary news for those who don’t feel YouTube is paying music rights-holders enough: it’s the biggest music streaming service on earth, and it’s growing faster than Spotify or any of its rivals….