Rob Sheridan, a designer who's worked in the music industry, has posted a 6,000-word diatribe bemoaning the shutdown of file-trading network Oink and predicting (and encouraging) the death of the ...

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Despite the democratization of music in the streaming era, it's still very expensive to record an album. A veteran music lawyer said it can easily cost $250,000, while a Grammy nominee estimated ...

At the heart of the music business almost since its inception, major labels have successfully weathered multiple challenges to their industry dominance. But as music once again reinvents itself, can ...

As vinyl sales just reached record highs, the issue of vinyl pressing plant shortages is coming to a head. Yes, the prevailing thinking is that the demand for vinyl from pop stars like Taylor Swift ...

Pre-order SELLOUT: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) in our store. As chronicled in the book, many of these bands faced tons of backlash from the punk ...

Napster has agreed to use a new music service being developed by three major record labels in a legal version of the popular file-swapping network, sources said Tuesday. According to sources close to ...

Vinyl was once the standard for music listening, giving way to cassettes, CDs and digital files over the years, but the past decade-plus has seen a resurgence in the musical format. That said, Jack ...

Jack White is making a plea to the three major record labels to build their own vinyl pressing plants. In a video released Monday, the Detroit rocker asks Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner ...

In 2017, Jack White's Third Man Records opened its own vinyl record pressing plant that has been in operation ever since. Today, White has issued a statement directed at the major labels urging them ...