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...
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...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: We are programmed to receive – and do it digitally. But before we can get all receptive, understanding digital music distribution is a must for pros of every stripe.
Originally founded in San Francisco in 2003 by Matt Laszuk and Bryn Boughton before the pair relocated to NYC Read more...
Performing Rights Organization ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), which represents 400,000+ songwriters, composers and music publishers, has announced that ASCAP New York Sessions will take place on March 31, 2011.
The event brings together top songwriters, composers, producers and music industry professionals for a full day Read more...
The new video series “Suite Songs: NYC” featuring the artist Stacie Rose and presented by Enchanted Records, is debuting globally on SonicScoop.
Rose is a rising NJ/NYC songwriter who released the well-received Alter Ego EPs in 2010, and whose songs have been frequently licensed by the likes of MTV’s “The Read more...
