• Apple Deletes White-Power Music from iTunes Following Report; Amazon and Google Have Yet to Respond

    Apple recently took down work on iTunes from bands that was deemed "white-power" or "racial-supremacy" music by the Southern Poverty Law Center in a new report. The company came under fire for offering the hateful music as well as giving customers more options with the "Listeners Also Bought" feature. According to "Rolling Stone" and "Noisey," Apple deleted 30 of the 54 bands last week that the SPLC pointed out in the report, but other online vendors like Amazon and Google have yet to do so."The racist music industry, a once lucrative source of funding for the white power movement, is a shadow of its former self," the report reads. "Over the past decade, it has become increasingly fragmented and disorganized in the wake of the collapse of several major labels and distributors. Concerts have become scarce and those that remain have been driven even further underground. However, the ever-resilient white power music scene has found new hope and new profit amidst the wreckage of a once multimillion-dollar industry from an unlikely source: the world's largest music vendor, iTunes."Apple's Terms and Conditions page for iTunes restricts submissions of work that is "obscene, objectionable or in poor taste," but that apparently was not strictly enforced.

  • Skrillex, Diplo, CL & G-Dragon Release Gladiator 'Dirty Vibe' Remix + Music Video via Red Bull '20 Before 15'

    As part of Red Bull's "20 Before 15" series some of the best artists who have worked with the media / soft drink conglomerate have donated a track from their libraries to give away to the fans according to a press release. There are only 1,000 copies available for download, but the option to stream is still there. As the series comes to a close, Red Bull shines its spotlight back on Skrillex, who they have started a strong relationship with in 2014. Sonny Moore, better known as Skrillex, has done a double premiere with Red Bull, releasing the Gladiator remix of "Dirty Vibe" featuring Diplo, CL and G-Dragon for free, while also premiering the video for Dirty Vibe through the platform.

  • Sam Smith 'In the Lonely Hour' Goes Platinum

    Sam Smith's month keeps getting better. After earning six Grammy nominations for his album "In the Lonely Hour," Sam Smith has reached another major milestone. The album has at last sold a million copies and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, according to a press release. In addition to selling 1 million copies with physical and digital download sales, the album has eclipsed that mark and sold an additional million when factoring track and album stream equivalents as computed by Nielsen SoundScan.Sam Smith has been arguably the biggest breakout artist of 2014. First tabbed by Disclosure to sing on their hit single "Latch" in 2012, the 23-year-old started to build a fan base in 2013, before his single "Stay with Me" was released earlier this year in April and has since gone four times platinum and stayed near the top of the charts for the better part of the year.He was nominated for six Grammys: two for "In the Lonely Hour" for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album and three for "Stay with Me," which garnered nominations for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. He was also nominated for Best New Artist.
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