Warner Music Nashville Names Rod Riley President, CEO of Word Entertainment

Warner Music Nashville (WMN), the Nashville-based music operations of Warner Music Group Corp., announces that Rod Riley has been named president and CEO of Word Entertainment, WMG’s Christian music division. [...]

Free Shigeto EP Explores More Textural, Narrative Worlds

Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Shigeto is one of my favorite artists on Ghostly International. [...]

Prince: The Internet is Over; Digital Music Just Fills Your Head with Numbers

I hope you liked music while it lasted, because me and a bunch of nerds are about to replace it with … this. Photo ( CC-BY ) João Trindade Music celebrities have given CDM words to live by over the years — strange, yet strangely profound, reflections on the evils of modern technology. Sure, they’re trying to make some point about MP3 compression or the potential distractions of the Internet or … something. [...]

After 100 Records, A Bento Box, July Events Full of Ghostly International

Hardly a day goes by, it seems, that someone isn’t talking about the death of the album, replaced by singles. When they say “album,” however, they tend to mean “pop album,” using as their primary metric sales of the very top end of the spectrum. In electronic music, the album has never been about [...]

EFF, in Response to ASCAP, Says They Want to Find Ways of Getting Artists Paid

What’s the future of musician income? Crispin guitarist AJ looks on. [...]

Black Toast Music Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Independent music publisher/production music library Black Toast Music in Chatsworth, Calif., announces its 20th anniversary and music placements in HBO’s True Blood, Showtime’s Dexter, and more. Black Toast Music was founded in l990 by musician/composer/producer Bob [...]

Looking Beyond MIDI, What’s the Best Way to Represent Musical Notes Digitally?

Speaking in Hamburg to a terrific group of assembled locals from a variety of design backgrounds. And yes, this is the other part of my life behind me. I just seem to generally skip the years [...]

Batteries and Suitcase Music: Chris Carter’s No-MIDI, No-Keyboard Musical Rig

How much can you do with a suitcase full of soundmakers? Quite a lot, as it happens. The 20th Century gave sound two great [...]

Brains, Computers, Focus: How Do You Stay Productively Creative?

The original pomodoro. [...]

Oberlin College Installs PMC Reference Monitors

The Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, has installed PMC MB2S-XBD reference monitors in the control room of its Joseph R. [...]