Terrace Martin‘s production credits are as impressive as they are eclectic — the jazz-reared saxophonist has been behind the boards on projects by everyone from Snoop Dogg to Lalah Hathaway to Kendrick Lamar‘s Grammy-winning To Pimp a Butterfly. But 2016 is bringing Martin a totally new set of challenges: he’s working on albums for Compton rapper…

SoundCloud is about to become a totally different musical destination, with a subscription service happening by October of this year, according to sources to DMN….

Kendrick Lamar has made a statement yet again. On Friday at midnight (March 4), the Compton rapper surprised fans with Untitled, Unmastered almost a year after dropping his Grammy-winning sophomore album To Pimp a Butterfly….

iHeartMedia is fighting back against a default notice sent by a group of senior debt holders as it tries to restructure its massive debt load….

Music producer Steve Levine always knew he wanted a career in music. “I grew up listening to the sound of reggae, ska and Motown in the early 1960s. From a very young age, I wanted to make records – but initially, I wanted to be a sound engineer.”…

In case you hadn’t already guessed, music streaming is on the rise and most physical music sales (CDs) are on the decline. But would you have guessed Vinyl sales are up 56%?…

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NEC has announced that it is developing earbuds that can confirm an owner’s identity….

As the music business continues to question the value coming back to rights-holders from YouTube, the movie industry just made a historic pact with the Google-owned giant….

Need to find an important piece of metadata for a particular recording? SoundExchange has announced the launch of an online tool for looking up the ISRCs, or International Standard Recording Codes, related to the nearly 20 million recordings in its database….