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Did Daft Punk "Get Lucky" with Pharrell, or vice versa? Examining Pharrell's ten greatest misses

Before it was even released, "Get Lucky," the first single from Daft Punk's forthcoming album "Random Access Memories," set the world on fire. From the fan edits of the track to the sixty second commercial from Saturday Night Live to the album teaser from Coachella, "Get Lucky" generated more than t ... More >>

The ten biggest assholes in rock

Feuds, tantrums, threatening to kill the president -- if you've been following rock music for the past few decades, you know that dickish behavior comes with the territory when your job involves a stage and adoring fans. Here we've assembled the reprehensible cream that has risen to top, highlightin ... More >>

The 20 most coveted Colorado music-industry jobs: The complete list with five new profiles

In our series of coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, we've covered a range of jobs, from guitar tech and handling publicity to being tasked with overseeing digital music delivery from a vast electronic music catalog to band management. Today, we complete our list of the most coveted Colorado music ... More >>

Beatport being sold to SFX Entertainment

We've heard rumblings about this for the past few weeks, but now it's confirmed: Beatport is reportedly being sold to SFX Entertainment for $50 million. According to the New York Times, who broke the news last night on its Media Decoder blog, Robert F.X. Sillerman, who heads up the burgeoning EDM en ... More >>

The Perks of Being a Wallflower revisits pre-Internet adolescence

Five more coveted Colorado music-industry jobs

Colorado is an incredible place for live music -- from our outdoor venues, one of which is world-renowned, to the vast festivals, shows and venues we have to choose from. The growth of the music scene has created a small niche of music-industry jobs. In case you missed it, we recently spotlighted fi ... More >>

Charlie Benante is looking ahead rather than reflecting on Anthrax's thirtieth anniversary

See Also: Sunday: Anthrax at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Joey Belladonna talks about Married...With Children and rejoining the band Scott Ian on Worship Music, comic books, Doctor Who and interviewing Ozzy Photos: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/19/11 Review: Anthrax at Summit Music Hall, 10/18/10 ... More >>

Is vinyl still a viable format or as obsolete as pager technology in the age of smart phones?

Today, the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo is taking place at Ramada Plaza in Northglenn (I-25 and 120th). For a $2.00 admission, you can sort through a treasure trove of vinyl from over forty dealers from all over the country. While there will also be CDs, posters and other stuff available at ... More >>

Review: The Darkness at Summit Music Hall, 2/16/12

THE DARKNESS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 2/15/12If you are one of the four original members of The Darkness, a band that hit its peak in 2003 but never seemed to care, where in the set do you strategically place "I Believe In a Thing Called Love"? Saving your monster hit for last makes you a tease, but pl ... More >>

The problems with SOPA and its sweeping side effects

Remember that mixtape you made for your high-school sweetheart? Or that time you taped a movie off cable? Turns out you were breaking the law, pirating copyrighted materials without permission. While the statute of limitations has probably long passed on your crimes of teenage passion, entertainme ... More >>

Pete Tong on twenty years at the BBC, relaunching FFRR and returning to Pacha

​Pete Tong (due at Beta this Saturday, October 15) has had a ridiculous year: In commemoration of holding down a slot at BBC Radio 1 for twenty years, he took over the station for twelve hours, plus he re-launched his Pacha residency in Ibiza and started a pool party residency in Vegas. We cau ... More >>

Spotify finally launches in the U.S. What is it?

​It might not have been on purpose, but Spotify's constant delays in coming stateside have somehow managed to create an organic buzz for the streaming music service unlike anything that could have been done intentionally.

R.I.P. Norio Ohga, the man who helped propel the music CD: a history of the technology

​Former Sony Corporation president Norio Ohga, the man widely attributed for pushing Sony into a new generation that led to the standardization of the Compact Disc format, passed away on Saturday from multiple organ failure. He was 81. While Ohga left Sony in 2000 to focus on music -- namely c ... More >>

What's killing the music industry? Auto-Tune? The Internet? American Idol? All of the above?

​The music industry has been marked for death for a long time now, but amazingly, nobody has managed to come up with a concrete reason as to why. Sure, it's easy to assign blame, but the real reason the music is dying is still a mystery to most people in the industry. Thankfully, plenty of sta ... More >>

LimeWire shut down by permanent injunction

​Looking for WMAs of Third Eye Blind? You're going to have to look elsewhere. Effective immediately, LimeWire, the popular peer-to-peer file sharing service, has gone the way of pagers, payphones and the Walkman. In 2006, the music industry filed a suit against the service for a "massive sca ... More >>

The French are fighting piracy in a new and interesting way, but could it work here?

​The French government has revealed a plan to combat piracy that could either be the most brilliant gesture ever or the most monumental waste of government resources of all time (okay, maybe not all time, but close). The proposal: French residents can buy a 50-euro gift card with which they ... More >>

Fueled by venture-capital funding and a love for unknown bands, can Boulder's Next Big Sound predict the next rock star?

Who needs friends? Facebook's tumultuous infancy is exposed in The Social Network

It's 2010, and some members of the music industry still have no clue

​This magical Internet machine has been up and running for a while now, transmitting music from the ether to our ears using a mix of faerie dust and marketing panache. It seems, however, that there is still a decisive split on what this new mystery machine means for the future of music. You' ... More >>

Five ways to stave off an iTunes store monopoly

​ With the disintegration of Lala coming May 31st, we've been left with one less choice for downloading. Lala was one of the best digital music distributors in town, offering full album streaming and low prices for downloading. After the website was gobbled up by Apple in December of last ... More >>

I Need That Record: The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store -- have you seen it yet? You should.

In case you haven't gotten your quotient of feel-like-shit yet today, check out I Need That Record! website, a documentary about the death of independent record stores. For a limited time, you can stream the doc for free in its entirety on Pitchfork or you can purchase it directly for eleven buck ... More >>

Randall Frazier faced some Massive hurdles running an independent promotions firm

​Being in the music business is tough these days. Ask Randall Frazier, who, as reported yesterday, recently shuttered Massive Music America, a fairly successful independent promotions firm he launched in 2003. "The digital music/iPod world that we are now living in has greatly changed the music in ... More >>

Metallica due at Pepsi Center on November 4

Ten Reasons Ween's Better Than Your Favorite Band

The Disorienting Post Modernity of Rutlemania and Other Assorted Goodies

Q&A with Carbon/Silicon's Tony James

Home Alone

Suburban Home Records gets pilfered. Again.

Home Stand

A decline in sales forces Suburban Home Records to scale back.

Flow Boys

It's a jet-set life for these college dropouts.

Room & Board

Riders rest easy on The Block.

Warming Trend

At long last, Edith Frost is done chilling out.

The Beatdown

For your ears only: You can listen to the music, but by God, don’t share it.

The Beatdown

The second coming of the Lord.

The Show(case) Must Go On!

Consumer Aborts

Don't look for DJ Spooky's new CD in his slot at the record store. It's not for sale.

The Evolution Control Committee

Plagiarythm Nation (Evolution Controlled Creations/Seeland)

Backwash

In a single bound, Accidental Superhero leaps to the top of the MP3 charts.

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

The Great Beyond

San Diego's Pinback moves from science fiction to oblivion without getting lost in space.

Enter the Zen Arcade

After a stint in the limelight as a founder of Hüsker Dü, Grant Hart is content to be quiet, independent and alone.

Graham Slams

New-wave pioneer Graham Parker is still squeezing out the sparks.

Industrial Revolution

Napster's gone, but the record industry's copyright woes aren't.

Strange but True

From the penthouse to the outhouse, the highs and lows of 2000.

Backwash

Hemi Cuda's new CD is thick and tasty.

Limp Bizkit

Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (Interscope)

Ransom Notes

Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their “free” music?

Backwash

Lawyers rock and roll.

Mann in the Middle

After her career blossomed anew with Magnolia, Aimee Mann made a declaration of artistic independence.

Backwash

The downfall of Napster is wussifying the Web.

Brothers Keeper

The demonic duo of Dean and Gene Ween returns with a new studio album -- and a refined take on a twisted past.