Rap was all about alpha-males, fast cars, flashy guns and baggy pants -- until a bunch of kids with skinny jeans and skateboards started flailing around in fluro and turned gangsta into geek.
Jazz may be taught in schools, heard in ads and celebrated as an art form -- but few people are actually interested enough to enjoy it it live anymore. Is the great musical movement of the 20th century dying out?
Last week, our music blog Johnny's in the Basement published a guest post about a dispute between Australian indie music labels and the broadcasters MTV and VH1 Australia. Today, MTV has written a response.
A guest post by Association of Independent Record Labels board member and Shock Entertainment Managing Director Marcus Seal, explaining the problems independent Aussie artists face when trying to get a piece of the music video pie.
An unfortunate sequence of events may go some way to explaining Quentin Tarantino's red-carpet surliness at yesterday afternoon's Inglourious Basterds premier. Can you help cheer him up?
Triple J’s Hottest 100 caused a bit of stink when it was released because of the noticeable absence of female artists, so the interwebs are filling the gap. Tim Dunlop nominates his top five.
Intellectual property is a fiction, and the way in which it is conceived changes over time, writes Guy Rundle. Just ask Men at Work.
An uncovered internal Stasi file from Michael Jackson's 1988 concert outside the Reichstag building in West Berlin reveal his East German fans, listening from the other side of the Berlin Wall, planned to riot and "test the limits of the security organ".
Radio has become a race issue, with artists -- particularly African Americans -- not receiving correct payment for stations using their music, writes Dionne Warwick.
Growing up, music was a social experience. You got an album, went to someone’s house, and anywhere between two and twenty people would cram into someone’s bedroom to listen. What happens now? asks Tim Dunlop.
