As a touring festival, the Van’s Warped Tour is quickly nearing its 20-year anniversary, and the first wave of bands that will play the 2012 festival have been announced and include Memphis May Fire and The Silver Comet. Additionally, dates and cities have been announced, though the actual venues will be revealed at a later [...]

Google held an event in Los Angeles on Wednesday to announce its new Google Music service, an MP3 store that is integrated with its current cloud service and will compete with existing services like the iTunes store and Amazon MP3. Comparisons of the store to iTunes and the Amazon store, among other competitors, abound in [...]

On Friday, it was announced that EMI, one of the four remaining major record labels will be sold, as the music industry continues the trend of consolidation. EMI was actually sold to two companies, with the record label portion of the company purchased by Vivendi, the company that owns Universal Music Group (UMG). Sony Corp. [...]

This is a sad day for the technology and music community alike as Steve Jobs has lost his battle with cancer, passing away at 56. No specifics were available though Apple did release a statement saying, ” We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were [...]

Its been a decade since Napster revolutionized the music industry with its peer-to-peer file sharing networks. After considerable legal wranglings over copyright infringement, the company shut its doors only to issue a massive wave of P2P copycats that would continue the revolution the way music is consumed to this day. The Napster name brand was [...]

Facebook users who love music, get ready. According to CNBC, in September the social network is planning to launch their own music service. Rumors of the new music service first started to surface in July when Jeff Rose, a tech blogger, published some code that appeared to be a call for downloading an application named [...]

AEG, the entertainment giant, has announced they are launching their very own ticket selling service online called AXS (pronounced “Access”). This means that AEG won’t be relying on Ticketmaster any longer, which is the dominant online ticket retailer that every year sells tickets by the hundreds of millions to event goers who are looking to [...]

Today, organizers of Pukkelpop in Belgium announced that the rest of the three day festival for this year will be canceled following the stage collapse that occurred on Thursday. On the festival website a post said, all of us with Pukkelpop are in deep mourning. All the friends and families of the victims have all [...]

Yet another actor is entering the fray over the Jeff Buckley Biopic battle. According to several reports, Reeve Carney, who portrays the superhero in Broadway’s infamous “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” production, has been cast in the role of Jeff Buckley, the ill-fated singer. Carney, who also played Prince Ferdinand in Julie Taymor’s directed “The [...]

On Saturday night, less than one month after there were accidents at a Flaming Lips as well as Cheap Trick concert, a stage at Indiana State fair collapsed. Five people were killed and dozens were injured. Earlier, the Indiana State Police had reported three deaths. The number could change again with the injuries still being [...]