Eminem's publisher, Eight Mile Style, is suing Spotify. It claims the music-streaming service failed to correctly copyright the rapper's work. Eminem has never been properly paid for songs "streamed on Spotify billions of times", court papers say.

The Prodigy appear to be back in action, reportedly working on new tunes just months after the untimely passing of Keith Flint.

David Bowie and the Beatles may have helped topple the Berlin Wall. Now South Korean and Western pop may be undermining the Pyongyang regime.

Eilish earns her first leader, ending an unprecedented nine-week wait at No. 2.

“Chernobyl” was the surprise drama of the season, which benefited greatly from the unique score by Icelandic cellist/composer Hildur Gudnadóttir, who earned one of the 19 Emmy nominations picked up by the HBO miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Comprised of actual sounds recorded by the composer in the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, prior to the shoot, the result was an eerie score that captured the creepy horror of the Soviet nuclear disaster and its aftermath.

Apple Music has launched a new featured playlist that leverages data from its Shazam music recognition service. “Shazam Discovery” highlights 50 “up-and-coming songs from breaking artists” and will be updated weekly.

The former quarterback caused a problem for the league—which turned to the celebrated rapper for assistance.

I’ve got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied by an exhortation to “put on your Dockers, pull up a deck chair and relax.” With a single exception, the passengers aboard the yacht were all dudes.

Billie Eilish was accused of using stolen Nozomi Tojo art for her new merchandise.The merch was pulled from the webiste after her team admitted to using it.

It seems Jack Black has officially fulfilled his musical destiny by collaborating with Jack White.

Japanese 'ambient musician' Hiroshi Yoshimura never found fame during his lifetime. But YouTube has changed that.

A recent ruling on a Kraftwerk sampling case could see the future of sampling in music change forever.

A jury has decided that Katy Perry should pay $2.8m in damages to Flame for copyright infringement of his song Joyful Noise.

The Swedish company Teenage Engineering has won over kids — and professionals — with a revolutionary idea for a synthesizer: Make it simple.

An anthropologist who is also a singer-songwriter explores how Southwestern Native bands shake up the notion of “cowboys and Indians.”

n the UK it is almost obligatory for a culture minister never to have attended an opera. In Latvia, a small country that takes these things very seriously, the newly installed culture minister hasn’t just seen plenty of operas, he’s starred in them.

Katy Perry’s 2013 hit “Dark Horse” infringed on the song “Joyful Noise” by Christian rap artist Marcus Gray, aka Flame, a Los Angeles jury found on July 29.

An Eater X "Switched on Pop" investigation

Woodstock 50 is officially off, multiple sources tell Variety. Vendors and stakeholders were notified this morning, July 31, that the beleaguered festival was not going on. The festival was origina…