Amanda F***ing Palmer is the queen of crowd-sourcing. She raised an impressive $1.2 million over Kickstarter this year to pay for her newest album, "T...

For slightly more than $2 a month, everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes Match. Is this amnesty for all the music pirates? I hope so.

If you're one of those that feels that major labels are the root of all evil, you may want to skip this post altogether because this time I'm sticking...

If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. ...

This is not a signal of the death of the music industry, but proof that there is a vast market out there full of consumers willing to spend money.

I was watching the Isle of Wight documentary from 1970 when I realized that the emergence of Napster was in fact nothing new, but rather the latest skirmish in the battle for putting a price on music.