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Legal Notes: Napster’s Muscle Falls to Indie Label Rounder Records in NY Federal Court Battle

FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT, SOUTHERN DISTRICT, MANHATTAN: Picture it, the Internet, 1999. Napster launches out of a college dorm room in Massachusetts, and becomes one of the biggest forces in the music industry to reckon with. Its mechanism of peer-to-peer music file-sharing causes nothing short of a music-technology revolution, and major Read more...

The Spirit of NYC Mastering: Get Inside the Ears of James Cruz and Zeitgeist Sound Studios

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Scratch below the surface of any of today’s independent masring engineers, and most likely you’ll find a team player there. There are a lot of one-person shops dotting the NYC landscape, but these individual practitioners weren’t always flying solo.

Case in point: James Cruz, founder and Read more...

Music Seen: Music-to-Picture Hot Picks * “Into the Sun” by Lord Huron (Bad Decision) Remix

Artist: Lord Huron/Bad Decision

Song: “Into The Sun” (Bad Decision Mix) – Lord Huron (free, legal download available HERE)

Why I Luv It: Ben Schneider absorbed more than the sunlight once he touched down in Los Angeles. The Michigan transplant’s beautiful Caribbean-inflected songwriting is sunshine incarnate as Lord Huron and Read more...

On Top Of The World: Jungle City Studios Shows NYC In A New Light

CHELSEA, MANHATTAN: NYC is quite literally the backdrop to Ann Mincieli’s brand-new Jungle City Studios. One step into the top-of-the-world Studio A, with panoramic views uptown along the High Line and west to the Hudson River, and you’re hitting the Alicia Keys chorus of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind;” it’s Read more...

In-Session: Jordan Galland with Alex Lipsen at Headgear Recording (Video)

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: Last Fall, SonicScoop and Vintage King held a contest to pair up NYC-based singer/songwriter/filmmaker Jordan Galland with a local studio and producer to record some new material. Looking for the right engineer and room in which to track drums, vocals and piano, Galland chose Alex Lipsen, producer, Read more...

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