Digital Music News

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Digital Music NewsIndustryDisctopia Granted Patent to Tie Creator Payouts to Verified Listening Photo Credit: Disctopia Disctopia was granted a US patent covering its ability to tie creator payouts to verified listening across music, podcasts, audiobooks, and video. Streaming fraud continues to plague artists tryin

September 16

Digital Music NewsIndustryAfter 24 Seasons, American Idol Moving Filming from Los Angeles to Georgia Photo Credit: Atlanta by Lance Asper “American Idol” is moving production to Georgia for its 25th season after more than two decades in Southern California. After 24 years in Los Angeles, “American Idol” will move produc

September 16

Digital Music NewsIndustryBusta Rhymes Says Artists and Producers ‘Face a Very Similar Frustration’ with Streaming Photo Credit: Busta Rhymes by Matt J. Carbone / CC by 2.0 Busta Rhymes says it’s still difficult for artists and producers alike to make money in streaming, outside of the world’s biggest acts. Hip-hop legend Busta Rhyme

September 14

XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.