Mysterious Wu-Tang rap album could be seized, auctioned by feds
“Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” packaged in a custom silver-and-nickel case and accompanied by a 174-page leather-bound book, may be the most famous album...
Pacific Northwest garage-rock legend Fred Cole dies at 69
As the grunge gold rush in the 1990s made stars of young bands in and around Seattle like Nirvana and Soundgarden, Fred Cole and Dead...
It’s not their pop idol — just a bot — but fans cheer anyway
For celebrities, the next frontier of social media is a deliberately impersonal one: chatbots, a low-level form of artificial intelligence that can be harnessed to...
Streaming drives U.S. music sales up 11 percent in 2016
U.S. music sales generated $7.7 billion in retail revenue in 2016, the industry’s highest sales figure since 2009. The 11.4 percent increase was the best...
No streaming for Adele’s new album ‘25’
Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé are viewed as among the very few superstar acts with enough leverage to set the terms for how they want...
Music industry waits anxiously to see if Adele streams new album
The artist’s choice on whether to stream her new album will reflect the music industry’s larger debate over how fully to embrace the format.