“High Definition Vinyl” has moved closer to a turntable near you. In 2016, a European patent filing described a way of manufacturing records that the inventors claimed would have higher audio fidelity, louder volume, and longer playing times than conventional LPs. Now, the Austrian-based startup Rebeat Innovation has received $4.8 million in funding for the…

Many people feel that listening to music at work improves their mood. Others claim it even makes them more productive. Is there any merit to these impressions? Of course, researchers have weighed in. Listening to music at work can make “absorbing and remembering new information” more difficult, according to a 2012 Time Magazine article. However,…

Fleetwood Mac has fired Lindsey Buckingham after a disagreement over the band’s upcoming tour, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The band announced Monday that Mike Campbell of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House will replace him. News of Buckingham’s departure initially broke when former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Billy Burnette shared an April…

Seventy-four minutes is an awkward length for a CD, right? Especially in this digital age of 1s and 0s, so why this particular number for the length of a CD? Well, the answer to that question actually has everything to do with Ludwig van Beethoven, a man who was born well before the invention of…

iHeartMedia, Inc., the parent company of iHeartRadio, the largest radio broadcasting network in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy, the corporation announced. The company says that it has reached an agreement with creditors to restructure more than $10 billion in debt, cutting down its debt from over $20 billion. A press release notes that…

Minutes after Apple announced its acquisition of magazine subscription service Texture on Monday morning (March 12), the company’s senior vp, internet software and services Eddy Cue took to the stage at South by Southwest to share his vision for media curation across music, TV, film, sports and even healthcare. Interestingly, moderator CNN senior reporter Dylan Byers introduced music into…

Spotify has set a date for its public offering and the streaming service plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange the week of April 2, Billboard can confirm. Bloomberg first reported the news on Sunday night. The date gives Spotify just three more weeks to prepare for its direct listing, which will buck…

In some ways, Spotify’s official filing to go public extends much of the same narrative it has heralded to the music industry over the past few years. The company’s paid user base continues to flourish, increasing by 46 percent year-over-year to 71 million subscribers in 2017, out of 159 million total monthly active users. Both…

Of all the Oscar-nominated composers who have recorded at 20th Century Fox, there’s one name spoken with such reverence it’s as if this scoring stage was a chapel: that name is Newman. “There may not be any musical saga quite like the Newmans’,” said film score historian Jon Burlingame. When Robert Redford knocked the lights…

When news spread last week that Spotify had filed papers to start selling its shares on the New York Stock exchange, listeners may very well have tuned out. Is there any phrase more antithetical to the rock’n’roll spirit than “initial public offering”? But what happens to Spotify matters for the future of music, particularly at…