Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake Lead $11 Million Round for Sandbox VR
Sandbox VR, a startup that fers retail locations where people can play virtual reality games with each other, is raising some serious cash. Earlier, they…
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Spotify Handing Out Google Home Mini Speakers to Premium Subscribers
Photo Credit: Google Home Mini Spotify is bringing back its free smart speaker fer to all new and existing Spotify Premium members. All premium individual…
Sony Launches 360 Reality Audio With The Xperia 1 at NYC Event
Photo Credit: Sony Sony ficially launched its 360 Reality Audio format this week with a special event in New York. The event showcased Sony’s latest…
TikTok, Pandora Advertising Found on Pirate TV Platform TeaTV
An investigation by CNBC has shown that not only are pirated versions popular movies and TV shows appearing on an online platform called TeaTV, but…
New Fender Songs Chord App Offers Integration With Apple Music
Photo Credit: Fender Fender has released a new iOS app to help learn the chords millions songs. Guitarists, pianists, and ukulele players can benefit from…
Just How Serious Is the Counterfeit Vinyl Records Problem?
Rosie Lopez, president Tommy Boy Records, speaking at Making Vinyl in Hollywood, CA last week (photo: Digital Music News, Public Domain) Back in August, we…
The Glitch Mob & LICK Combine For Stellar New Single "System Bleed"
Any dance music fan knows that there are few names as synonymous with greatness than that The Glitch Mob. They’ve had such an alluring presence…
Juice Wrld Faces $15 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over 'Lucid Dreams'
On Monday (October 21st), early 2000s emo rock band Yellowcard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in a California U.S. District Court against Juice Wrld. The…
TikTok Quietly Banned Explicit Lyrics — Before Uncensoring Them
A new report suggests TikTok banned songs with explicit lyrics back in August before re-instating them. Labels scrambled to deliver clean lyrics to avoid the…
Pandora's Pre-1972 Class Action Copyright Lawsuit Might Go 'Poof'
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court Appeals gave Pandora hope that it could escape a class action lawsuit filed against it relating to the streaming music…
YouTube Music Now Works In Unsupported Countries For Subscribers
Photo Credit: YouTube YouTube Music subscribers can finally listen to their music when traveling in an unsupported country. Tight laws and regulations on who can…
Apple Could Be Launching 'Airpods Pro' Headphones Before Halloween
Photo Credit: Unsplash Apple’s long-rumored noise-cancelling AirPods might finally arrive before Halloween. We covered a report from Bloomberg about the existence earlier this year. Initially,…
'Insecure' Star Issa Rae Is Starting a Label With Atlantic Records
Acclaimed actress Issa Rae just announced a joint-venture label deal with Atlantic Records. The new company, which is called Raedio, also released its first single,…
Lizzo Faces Another Plagiarism Accusation from Cece Peniston
Lizzo is now battling multiple accusations plagiarism. But is this really ‘plagiarism’ and ‘copyright infringement,’ or simply similarities and well-known memes? Over the weekend, 90s…
The Latest Music Industry Gigs: Copyright Royalty Board, LiveXLive, TaP, AWAL, More
U.S. Copyright Office Here’s a recap recent executive shuffles — including both hirings and in-house promotions — from across the music industry. If you have…
Get Ready for Two Coldplay Albums, 100 Years in the Making
Over the last four years, you may (or may not) have asked yourself, Whatever happened to Coldplay? Maybe you wondered it when you heard that…
Turn Up the Raedio: Issa Rae Launches New Record Label With Atlantic Records
Oh, cool, cool, Issa Rae has apparently used all her free time between seasons Insecure to launch her own record label. You keep meaning to…
Comcast First ISP To Sign On With ACE Anti-Piracy Coalition
Photo Credit: Mike Mozart / CC by 2.0 Comcast has become the first ISP to join the ACE anti-piracy coalition. Viacom also joined the anti-piracy…
Japanese Fan Travels 6,000 Miles to Cleveland to Meet Bone Thugs n' Harmony, Gets Robbed Blind by Locals
Ryo Muranaka, who is an aspiring Japanese rapper, traveled more than 6,000 miles to Cleveland, in the hope meeting his idols: Bone Thugs n’ Harmony….
Cloudflare Responds to RIAA Accusations — "Not In the Business of Hiding Companies"
Cloudflare objects to being categorized as a helper pirates in the latest “Notorious Markets” complaint. Copyright holder groups send the complaint to the U.S. Trade…
YouTube DMCA Scammer Slapped with a $25K Fine, Forced to Apologize
Photo Credit: Unsplash YouTube has settled a longstanding DMCA dispute with a man from Nebraska. Christopher Brady used YouTube DMCA take down notices to extort…
Review: Q Acoustic Concept 20 Bookshelf Speakers
A wallet friendly pair bookshelf speakers with great sound! I was recently sent a pair speakers from Q Acoustic. Previously, I’d tested and reviewed Q…
For Sale: 10% of Universal Music Group. Price: $3.3 Billion O.B.O.
Universal Music Group headquarters in Santa Monica, CA. Universal Music Group is having a very good year, and it might just get better. For those…
If Stormzy Didn't Demand Ben Cook's Dismissal, Who Did?
Former Atlantic Records UK President Ben Cook More questions than answers surround the abrupt departure Atlantic Records UK president Ben Cook. The abrupt resignation Atlantic…