She says she’s a “black Bill Gates in the making” who “ain’t never seen a ceiling in my whole damn life”. So it’s hardly surprising that Beyoncé has been named music’s most powerful woman by BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. The superstar came first in a list of the industry’s 40 most influential women, thanks […]

We’ve loved Pandora for years. Perhaps we forgot about her and moved onto new friends, like Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon. But can she now bounce back with a $3.5 billion investment? That’s the question many asked Monday, in the wake of Sirius XM’s proposed purchase of the struggling Pandora music service, one of the […]

Rapper and actor Eminem has given bitcoin’s public awareness another boost, giving it a mention in a song on his just-released album, “Kamikaze.” In track dubbed “Not Alike,” fellow artist Royce Da 5’9′  – who guest features on the piece – raps: The album was launched on midnight Thursday in a surprise announcement by Eminem, […]

Decentralized music-sharing protocol Audius has raised $5.5 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst and Lightspeed Capital the firm announced Wednesday. The project seeks to use a blockchain platform to help artists control the music they share, according to a press release. While a release date is not yet clear, the […]

Tickets for the first music festival set to be powered by blockchain technology are now on sale. Scheduled for this fall, the Our Music Festival is launching its own virtual currency — the OMF token — at its inaugural event in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. It will be the first musical entertainment experience to process booking […]

Lack of condemnation of rapper’s ‘I Admit’ reveals culture untouched by #MeToo movement R Kelly is sorry. Sorry he’s been accused of mistreating women, sorry parents have, by his telling, pushed their teenage daughters on him, sorry that the Women of Colour wing of the Times Up movement is campaigning for record labels to boycott […]

NILES –The different type of music enjoyed by presidents and their wives at the White House has changed over the years from single piano performances to large lawn concerts. “Music in the White House” was spotlighted at a recent program at the McKinley Memorial Library by Christopher Kenney, director of education from the William McKinley Presidential […]