Pimco Turns Attention to Music Rights; Sharing in the Streaming Boom; The HiFi Dilemma

Pimco strikes alliance with BMG to jointly acquire song copyrights.

What many have an issue with are outdated licensing and contractual frameworks that favour and overcompensate major labels at the expense of artists, songwriters, producers and musicians – the vast majority of whom are not sharing equitably in the ongoing streaming boom.

Electronic duo Eli & Fur have collaborated with tech firm PhotonLens and social media agency Be-Hookd Digital to release their first VR live show in 360 degrees.

Longtime radio industry programming consultant and tech visionary Fred Jacobs last week penned a column slamming broadcast radio for accepting advertising from Sirius XM. Why?

In every era, technology favors some creative skills over others — often with huge quantities of money.

Score the ultimate DJ table and get a 12-month subscription to Beatport LINK with the Beatport Special Edition of Blacktable.

Reggaeton, once shunned by music gatekeepers, is now the soundtrack to a brown, youthful Los Angeles and beyond, as the Spotify podcast 'Loud' shows.

Competition in the business world is a funny thing. In business, the prevailing thought is to be ruthless, to have the end goal of absolute market share. You want a prospective customer to only think.

Spotify is hiring hundreds of people in commercial sales roles in order to boost the company's ad revenue relative to what it makes through subscribers who pay and don't listen to ads while streaming music.

Chris Haslam chooses the best designer speakers for your classical music listening.

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