The most talked-about song of the month so far hasn’t been the Foo Fighters’ new single or anything from Taylor Swift but a track that featured the vocals of both Drake and The Weeknd while simultaneously featuring nothing from either artist. If you’re confused, just wait. Read more: Music generated …

Back in the fall of 2020, when COVID-19 shut down the live music industry, the United States Department of Homeland Security quietly proposed increases in the cost of visas necessary for foreign musicians who want to tour America. The new asking price of a “P-3″ visa, the one needed by …

Ever since the Galvin brothers introduced the first car radio — the Motorola — back in 1930, we’ve enjoyed all sorts of audio while behind the wheel. For decades, the radio was our main source of entertainment and information while we travelled from point A to point B. Lately, though, …

In the old days of physical music formats — CDs, vinyl, tapes — a collection was considered big if you had more than 100 of anything. Completists and obsessives might have upwards of a thousand or so records. If this sounds like you, I’ll bet that you knew the title …

When a jury ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had plagiarized Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit Got to Give It Up for their song Blurred Lines, a lot of songwriters felt a chill blowing in from that courtroom. In the jury’s estimation, the two songs sounded too much alike and …

When Steve Jobs made the rounds of major record labels in 2000, he knew he had them over a barrel. Music piracy, kicked into high gear by the original Napster the previous June, was a threat to the recorded music industry. The new frontier for music was online and the …

The Beatles performed Toronto 3 times (1964, 1965, and 1966), all at Maple Leaf Gardens. Demand for tickets was enormous and the band was on a good touring schedule. They wanted to get in and get out whereas performing for as many individuals as potential. Including a second evening wasn’t …

I’ll admit it: For those who undergo the recordsdata on my laptop, you’ll discover songs that I downloaded from Napster and different unlawful file-sharing websites. On the time — for me it was 2001-2003 — downloading songs illegally was seen as a goof, even innocent. How may a few downloaded …

VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA — Simply off the freeway within the Valley is the Sound Metropolis Advanced, a horseshoe-shaped constructing in the course of an industrial zone. The location as soon as featured the famed Sound Metropolis recording studios the place everybody from Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana to Johnny Money made …

HOLLYWOOD—Merck Mercuriadis is fairly relaxed for a man who simply made the most important deal of his profession. Twenty-four hours after buying Justin Bieber’s music catalogue for a rumoured US$200 million — his most costly deal to this point — his greatest concern is transferring home. “Business is under control,” …

There are few things more frustrating to a music fan than being shut out of a sold-out concert only to see tickets for sale at inflated prices on the secondary market. And how do those guys selling tickets on the street outside the venue get their inventory? Scalpers (“ticket touters” …

Now that we’re into a new year, the recorded music industry is evaluating the last 12 months. Luminate (formerly Nielsen) is the company that monitors all the music Canadians buy and listen to, from streams to CDs to LPs to cassettes. Here are some highlights from 2022. Total consumption of …