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This is the sixth installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read earlier pieces in the series here. Dina LaPolt’s law firm was born because Tupac’s mother Afeni Shakur, in 2001, started …

Spotify is launching a new feature called Songwriter Pages that aimsto give listeners a better look at the creators behind their favorite songs. The streaming service has roped in hit writers includingMeghan Trainor, Fraser T Smith (Adele, Sam Smith), Missy Elliott, Teddy Geiger (One Direction, Shawn Mendes, 5 Seconds of …

This is the second installment of Rolling Stone’s series At Work, in which we explore the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week. Read the first here. Emily Lazar has mastered, without hyperbole, nearly 4,000 albums. The founder, president, and chief engineer of her …

All hail the era of the media bundle. Days after Verizon announced that millions of its wireless subscribers will receive a year of the forthcoming Disney+ streaming service at no cost and Spotify teamed up with Google to offer free Google Homes, Apple is unveiling a bundle of its own: …

Leo Fender, father of the Stratocaster, did not play the guitar. “But he was one of the world’s best listeners,” says Andy Mooney, the chief executive of Fender Musical Instruments — a company that, true to its founder’s legacy, is more adept at hearing and understanding its audience than anything …

In 1989, Bruce Pavitt, the founder of the Seattle label Sup Pop, hatched a plan to boost the profile of several of his bands, including a pre-fame Nirvana. “During the pre-internet 1980s, it was difficult for struggling regional bands in the United States to achieve any national media attention,” he …

The iTunes brand is no more. Nearly two decades after introducing the world to the digital store-library hybrid, Apple announced at its annual global developers conference on Monday that it will shutter the iTunes software this fall, replacing it with three standalone programs for music, television and podcasts. While core …