SaveNetRadio has signed up several jazz legends to persuade Congress to strike down the new rate hike. The group solicited the Jazz community during Jazz Fest in New Orleans this week and is urging Congress to adopt the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would void the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decision for all webcasters, large and small, and adopt a new...

Island Def Jam is the latest label to be shedding excess employee girth. Several notable sources have revealed that the label will drop 50 workers in the next week with some early pinks being delivered this week including: the entire Roc La Familia staffm Crystal Issacs, Senior National Director of Mixshow Promotions (with a title like that, she should have seen...

AraldFX has announced StormGate3, a new gating effect, which lets you create new and unheard rhythmic parts from virtually any kind of audio material. StormGate3 splits the audio in three bands, and lets you shape each audio band with amplitude patterns. Patterns can be drawn freely by hand, or with the aid of powerful drawing tools. Within seconds you can...

The 50th Grammy Awards will be held Feb. 10 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, seven months before the Grammy Museum opens at the entertainment complex across the street from the arena. In addition, Aretha Franklin will be honored as the MusiCares person of the year at a gala to be held Feb. 8. The Recording Academy was founded in May 1957, and the first awards...

VertexDSP has released MultiInspector, a 31-band spectral analyzer designed to be used in a multitrack environment by providing an easy way to review the spectral analysis of several simultaneous audio signals. The first instance of MultiInspector behaves like a standard 31 band spectral analyzer. Additional instances automatically send their spectral analysis...