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07/30/2018

Janet Jackson, SZA, The Killers and more may have been the crowd favorites at Panorama 2018 over the weekend on New York's Randall's Island, but the music festival's art installations was the piece de resistance.

Cue the most technologically advanced balloon drop ever. Forbes got an exclusive look and behind-the-scenes photos from the artists who crafted this spectacular, full-sensory experience.

Relive The Lab's return.

07/23/2018

Festivals are a fantastic opportunity for fans to discover new bands.

Who is YOUR favorite band you discovered at a music festival?

07/21/2018

It's concert surprises like these that fans (and other artists) live for!

Cyndi Lauper and Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie belted Lauper's 1983 hit, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," in a surprise duet. These are the unique moments live performances are all about!

Brendon Urie got some major vocal back-up at Panic! at the Disco's performance in Long Island on Friday night (July 20) when Cyndi Lauper joined him onstage to belt out one of her biggest hits.

04/20/2018

Our sympathy and our respect goes out to Avicii and all those impacted by his music.

Tim Bergling, who worked with pop stars like Madonna and Coldplay under the stage name Avicii, was found dead in Muscat, Oman.

04/19/2018

The connective experience is a priority for both artists and their fans. Music festivals are one way to take a music experience to the next level.

04/03/2018

Spotify service's agreements with the big labels often short the artists behind the music.

The music streaming starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, but according to Gene Simmons, artists aren’t likely to see any profit from the move.

"At the end of the day the artists have gotten the rug pulled out from under them, and I'm shocked that legislators in Washington D.C. haven't taken the entire industry to task" Simmons said. "New artists are getting slaughtered because they're getting micro pennies out of a dollar."

"Spotify is getting rich and God bless them for it," Simmons said.

03/29/2018

The landscape of digital-entertainment is always changing. Slated to launch this fall, StreaMe has already gotten buy-in from a few Hollywood creatives who plan to use StreaMe to distribute content: filmmakers Jim and Brian Kehoe,and actor-musician-producer-director Thomas Ian Nicholas.

“Hopefully we’ll be like IMDb, where people can search for and find content based on filmmaker or actor,” said StreaMe CTO Alejandro Zalles.

Here comes a digital-entertainment upstart that pledges to put creators first. L.A.-based StreaMe is lining up hand-picked creators to be part of its streaming and content marketplace that will giv…

03/25/2018

Apple Music boss Jimmy Iovine recently asserted in a BBC interview that streaming services need to diversify to stay alive, citing Netflix's original series as an example for the necessary growth.

With music streaming services charging $9.99 for the same music, Iovine believes more interaction between the artist and the audience and original content are pivotal in order to survive.

Music streaming services are too similar and need to have more original content, Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine told the BBC.

03/23/2018

Late last year, Spotify began cracking down on use of unauthorized apps used to disable ads between tracks and give users access to on-demand playback on mobile devices — features available with Spotify Premium at $9.99 per month.

In response to the users' stream manipulation, Spotify is now 2 million monthly users lighter.

Spotify has restated key usage metrics for 2017 leading up to its IPO next month, claiming it recently discovered 2 million users had been accessing the free version of the streaming-music service …

03/17/2018

On Thursday, Snap shares plunged nearly 4% after Rihanna blasted the social media platform for running an ad for the mobile game "Would You Rather?" offering two options -- "Slap Rihanna" or "Punch Chris Brown".

To the app makers themselves, Rihanna wrote, "Shame on you. Throw the whole app-oligy away."

Shares of Snap are down for a second straight day after the social media giant received pointed criticism from Rihanna over a third-party ad that appeared to make light of domestic violence.

03/15/2018

With over 858 radio stations including Z100 in New York and Real 103.5 KISS FM in Chicago, iHeartMedia Inc is the largest internet radio broadcaster in the U.S.

With $20 billion of debt and falling revenues, iHeartMedia Inc declared bankruptcy late yesterday afternoon.

Saddled with $20 billion of debt and facing falling revenues, iHeartMedia Inc, the largest internet radio broadcaster in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy late on Wednesday.

02/05/2015

Gyroskope is happy to co-sponsor Health Enterprises Network, Greater Louisville event on health apps and wearable technology. Here's Interapt CEO Ankur Gopal talking about Google Glass and other cool stuff