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BEATDAPP co-founders and co-CEOs Morgan Haydukand Andrew Batey were not initially focused on fighting streaming manipulation. Batey spent years in digital marketing, while Hayduk formerly worked as a lobbyist for [...]

THERE'S A LINE OUT THE DOOR AT HILLTOP COFFEE + Kitchen in Los Angeles' Inglewood neighborhood, but Issa Rae, the creator and star of HBO's Insecure, strolls right past it, [...]

WHILE THE PRINCIPALS of Kobalt, Big Deal and other music publishers are making tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars selling to investment funds like Hipgnosis and Primary Wave [...]

DID OUTSIDE LANDS just win 2019? The long-running festival is the highest-grossing event reported to Billboard Boxscore for the month of August--and the year so far. The 12th annual festival, [...]

SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS career in the music business, Def Jam Recordings executive vp/GM Rich Isaacson's 'unwritten mission statement' has been to elevate the underdog. So in 1991, at [...]

Why did you start Dirty Hit? Dirty Hit was a reaction to two things: One was my perceived loss of control when [my clients] signed to a major label, and [...]

STOCKHOLM - In 2013, after Ola Sars returned to Sweden from Los Angeles, where he had led the team that built the original Beats Music platform, the serial entrepreneur met [...]

Dennis Arfa met Billy Joel in 1967, when Joel was playing in The Hassles; became his booking agent in 1976; and, roughly 10 years ago, suggested the idea for Joel's [...]

How did you convince Freddie, who had a long-standing career as an independent artist, to join a major? It wasn't a strategic thing, it just made sense. There was no [...]

After living in new York for nearly 20 years, The National's Aaron Dessner moved with his wife to Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2014 to raise their two children. He had been [...]

Julie Anne Quay, founder of Soho store and social media site VFiles, hasn't just created a successful business platform: She's created a lifestyle. 'People are tribal,' says Australia native Quay, [...]

The music industry's ongoing problems with sexual harassment moved front and center on Jan. 18 after multiple accusations of inappropriate behavior were leveled against Life or Death PR and Management [...]

Michael Dorf is the classic New York success story: music loving Midwesterner arrives downtown in the 1980s; hops into an arts scene that includes Lou Reed and Sonic Youth; opens [...]

From its humble beginnings in 1996 as a small independent label in Bloomington, Ind., Ben Swanson, with his brother Chris, has grown Secretly Canadian into Secretly Label Group, a small [...]