George Foreman, Jr., eldest son of George Foreman, the former heavyweight boxing champion of the world and direct marketing mogul, has made a strategic investment in Brilliant Entertainment, Inc., a newly formed music company. In addition to investing in Brilliant, which will focus on providing major distribution and promotion for independent artists and...

Liz McLean Knight, a serious electronic music hyphen, has developed the Electronic Musician’s Emergency Adapter Kit. Knight based the kit on her own bag-of-tricks that was fashioned out of a Sony silver headphones bag and 3 years worth of adapters that she had “often painfully” come to realize were essential for an electronic musician who...

RME will debut the DMC-842, the first multi-channel interface for digital microphones at AES. The DMC-842 also acts as a power supply and control device for digital microphones, supporting the worldwide AES 42 standard. Supporters of the Mode 1 and Mode 2 operating systems specified in the AES 42 standard currently include, among others, Neumann and Schoeps....

EMI faces takeover interest from three U.S. private equity firms: Fortress, Cerberus and One Equity, a unit of JP Morgan Chase. The three are set for a £3 billion takeover battle during the next two weeks for control of the world’s third-biggest music group. All three private equity firms has sent letters expressing interest in purchasing EMI, and...

Destiny Media Technologies has filed a $25 million lawsuit against rival Musicrypt alleging defamation and economic interference. These two love to tussle, last March Destiny asked courts in Canada to declare Musicrypt’s patent invalid, which prompted Musicrypt to file a counterclaim of patent infringement. That case remains pending. Both Destiny Media and...