After the sub-prime mortgage crisis, Citigroup moves into the music industry.

The November 16 Apple announcement ended one of the most litigious relationships in music history.

“I read the news today, oh boy,” are the first lyrics to the John Lennon-penned song “A Day in the Life,” and the original handwritten version is set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s on June 18th, 2010. The two sided piece of loose-leaf paper is estimated to sell for $700,000 based on the auction for [...]

Rock photographer, Jim Marshall, who was known for his vulnerable, candid, and iconic photographs of some of rock’s musical giants, died yesterday in his New York hotel room at the age of 74. The artist reportedly died in his sleep and although an autopsy was deemed inconclusive, a toxicology report, which will be available next [...]

When they purchased 3 Abbey Road in 1931, I doubt the Gramophone Company, which later joined with Columbia Gramophone Company to form EMI, had any idea the kind of landmark that it would ultimately become. The studio, most famously immortalized on the Beatle’s Abbey Road cover, has been put up for sale by EMI in [...]

David Byrne knows how to make buildings sing.  His 2008 installation, Playing the Building, was a study in transforming an enormous, historic ferry terminal into something of an instrument.  So when I saw that he would be giving a lecture about how venues and spaces shape how music is written, it definitely seemed worthwhile for [...]

Covering The Beatles teeters on being sacrilegious. Few can pull it off–it’s not a recommended undertaking. Kurt Feldman’s The Depreciation Guild (Feldman is also the drummer for The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart) mans this faithful rendition of “Because” beautifully–sprinkling the dream-pop aesthetics of his own band on top of one of the greatest [...]

Dark Night of the Soul is an unbelievable album. For realsies. Through the combined efforts of Danger Mouse– whose 2004 mashup opus fittingly titled The Grey Album caused EMI to furiously shake its fists over the use of unrequested Beatles’ tracks from The White Album combined with a cappella version of Jay Z’s The Black [...]

Granted they put out a helluva lot of records during their time together, but it’s been thirty-nine years since Let It Be, their last album, and the Beatles are still putting out records. Sure, it’s not new material, but how many ways can you repackage and retool? Evidently, a ton. Check out this nifty new [...]

I’m not sure when the Beatles catalog will be made available on iTunes, if ever—but you can now buy mp3s of their entire back catalog on a website you’ve never heard of. Yes, Blue Beat has ‘em. They beat Apple to the punch. Individual tracks are twenty-five cents each. Click here if you’re too lazy [...]

of Montreal’s multi-instrumentalist James Husband has a solo record out today. It’s called A Parallax I. The record comes packaged with  a  six-song EP featuring covers of The Beatles, Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard, Neil Young and Gary Numan. Check out the Gary Numan cover here. And grab “A Grave In The Gravel,” the track [...]