Though blogs come and go and file-sharing services get ever restrictive, the opportunity to dig up endless musical epiphanies online for free continues at a gladdening pace.
How do I discover music online that's relevant to me when most sites have 15 to 30 million tracks? That's the challenge most consumers face today as they search for new music.
Even with the fall of Napster and rise of Spotify, it appears illegally downloading music is still the fashionable thing to do. The Digital Music ...
Despite this generation's predilection for Internet contraband, we can easily be ushered back into the fold of legality. We have benefited from a reign of anarchy on the Internet because we are opportunistic, not delinquent.
The Maine and Honor Society are just two of many bands that have worked their way to prosper in the music industry. Support your favorite artists by purchasing their full-lengths albums.
How on earth did we get to a stage where paying £10 for unlimited amounts of music was seen as a rip-off? Artists saw little revenue from Spotify, and potentially had money taken away from their sales.
Years ago, the iTunes store was the only hope for the future of recorded music. Ten billion downloads later -- this laissez-faire attitude towards iTunes is the problem contributing to the devaluation of the album experience.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Apple Corps, EMI Group, Ltd., the surviving Beatles and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison have agreed to no longer offer the band's music on the Internet.
If you have a bicycle, and I copy it, we both have a bicycle. Cool, right? There's a catch.
There's a lot of complexity involved in why the current copyright laws were formed and why it's so important that they be enforced.
I hate to be Debbie Downer, but the Internet hasn't really changed anything for how we acquire and consume culture, at least not when it comes to how the business of art needs to work in order to sustain itself.
The plea from the music industry, which seems to have only gross sales in mind, is that if you illegally download you are hurting the artists themselves. This logic is far from true.
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
LONDON — People who repeatedly download copyright-protected films and music could have their Internet connection cut off under proposed laws the...
They are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been...
June 19 (Bloomberg) -- A Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service was ordered by a jury to pay Vivendi SA's Universal...
Three new releases, Live At The Meadowlands, My Way, and Classic Sinatra II should please hardcore fans and newbies alike.
That the recording industry is in the toilet is no surprise. How is it that artists don't see the solution?
LOS ANGELES — The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs prote...
Don't Stop Believin', the Journey power ballad, has become the first catalog track ever to sell more than 2 million downloads according to SoundScan. ...
The music junkie has to face the souring economy, too, and it may come to a point where 99 cents for a song on iTunes is too much to pay. For these re...
As in any ecosystem, a new and parasitic mutation is coming to fill the void, giving us the tunes that will become part of our lives, our history, our shared cultural identity. I speak, of course, of the jingle.
Soon, "darknet" technology is going to become so easy commonplace that the law of unintended consequences may innocently take the movie business to the place where the music business has gone to die.
Despite the major labels having convinced themselves that there is now no way to capture the kind of traffic iTunes generates, there was an opportunity they missed that proved just the opposite.
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year, a significant rise from estimat...
