Your indie-pop dream-team stopped by the idobi Studio recently to kick off the new idobi series Artists x Coffee.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album The Con, Tegan and Sara are releasing The Con X: Covers featuring covers from Hayley Williams, PVRIS, CHVRCHES, Bleachers, and a whole lot more.
The music industry has come together for a charity single to support those affected by London’s Grenfell Tower fire, with over 50 artists covering “Bridge Over Troubled Water”.
Queer music is going through a revolution of sorts right now, with LGBTQ+ bands and artists becoming bigger and louder than ever. Here is a small, diverse sampling of where to begin.
2014 is already shaping up to be an insane year for music, and some of our favorite bands are on their way to huge things this year. For our inaugural Tuesday Ten column, check out our list of ten bands you need to have your eyes and ears on in 2014.
At L.A.’s Digital Music Forum last week, Anu Kirk, a product lead at digital music service MOG, shared some bad news for musicians adapting to the current state of the music industry: “It sucks,” he said. “It sucks that right now that artists are getting paid so little money by subscription services, but it sucks that artists are getting paid so little money by everyone.” Tell the artists something they don’t know. The music industry has long been in decline, and even as a proliferation of new subscription music services have hit the market–Spotify, Rhapsody, Rdio, to name a few–it… Read more »
Fans of seminal indie bands Broken Social Scene and Metric will elect a winner of the $100,000 Pepsi Refresh Challenge at SXSW this week.
There was a time when most aspiring musicians had the same dream: to sign a deal with a major record label. Now, with the structure of the music business shifting radically, some industry iconoclasts are sidestepping the music giants and inventing new ways for artists to make and market their music – without ever signing a traditional recording contract. The latest effort comes from Brian Message, manager of the alternative band Radiohead, which gave away its last album, “In Rainbows,” on the Internet. His venture, called Polyphonic, which was announced this month, will look to invest a few hundred thousand… Read more »
America Online, Inc. the world’s leading interactive services company, will celebrate its landmark 100th AOL® Music First View by unveiling the exclusive world premiere of the new video by U2. The video for the band’s hit song, “Vertigo,” will be available for 24 hours beginning Wednesday, October 27, at 12:01am ET for all AOL members and those on the web, at aolmusic.com. “Vertigo” is the first single off of U2’s hotly anticipated new album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, scheduled for release by Interscope Records on November 23. The video, the band’s first in four years, will mark the… Read more »
Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that more than 100 million songs have been purchased and downloaded from the computer maker’s iTunes Music Store, and that the man who bought the 100 millionth song won a PowerBook. The 100 millionth song, “Somersault (Dangermouse remix)” by Zero7 was purchased by Kevin Britten, 20, of Hays, Kansas on Sunday, July 11, according to a company press release. For his buy, Britten will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his iPod and the opportunity to create his own Celebrity… Read more »
