• Avicii Manager Ash Pournouri, Spotify Founder Daniel Ek, Starting Stockholm SXSW-Style Conference Summer 2015

    San Francisco and New York City have been traditionally thought as hotbeds for tech startup, but pockets of new talent has been popping up all over the world in strong urban centers where young people want to live like Berlin, Istanbul, London, Stockholm, Boulder and elsewhere. One of the major hotspots has been Sweden with companies like Spotify, Skype, King and Ericsson all leading the way in terms of innovation, where other major brands in H&M and Ikea have all made their name as brands from the Nordic country. With all of this talent focused in a city with 2 million people, it is surprising that there is no SXSW-style of conference to try and bring these people together all at once. That is about to change with two of the brightest minds in the city, Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify and Ash Pournouri, founder of At Night Management, which handles Avicii, Cazzette, Ishi and others is looking to start a new conference this summer.

  • Jamie xx Shares 'Gosh' Music Video, In Colour World Tour Dates

    Jamie xx is preparing for one of the biggest years of his solo career. In addition to his upcoming album In Colour, which is slated for release on June 2 via Young Turks, the xx band member is also plotting an extensive world tour this summer and fall that will take him all over Europe and North America. In addition to the tour announcement, xx has released the music video for the album single "Gosh" that takes the viewer on a galactic journey to Mars and beyond. Watch the video below.

  • Fetty Wap Joins Rich The Kid On New Track "Keep It 100" [LISTEN]

    Rich The Kid has been pushing out music continually ahead of his new mixtape Flexin On Purpose, and has enlisted Fetty Wap for his new Zaytoven-produced song "Keep It 100," following the New Jersey rapper's smash hit "Trap Queen" and recently released track "Show You."

  • Stephen Hawking Theorizes About Zayn Malik's One Direction Departure, Says "There Could Be A Parallel Universe" In Which He Stayed In The Group

    Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is a pretty smart man. So when he talks about something significant, like One Direction losing Zayn Malik, you listen! While giving a lecture at Sydney Opera House, according to NME, one audience member asked him "What do you think is the cosmological effect of Zayn leaving One Direction and consequently breaking the hearts of millions of teenage girls across the world?" The renowned scientist gave a comforting answer after joking, "Finally, a question about something important."

  • Grimes Defends Tidal: "This Kind Of Thing Is So Important, Especially For Indie Music"

    If you have paid attention to the music industry over the past few weeks, you would have seen the big hoopla about Jay Z's new music streaming service TIDAL. It has faced a wall of criticism from fans, artists and professional skeptics who question whether or not its message of "TIDAL For All" is actually meant to benefit every artist or just a few millionaire artists who were there to launch the product at the March 30 press conference. Today, Jay Z took the time to outline some TIDAL facts on Twitter, including saying that the company pays out 75 percent of its revenue to artists, writers and producers, higher than the 70 perfect that Spotify pays out in royalties, which largely lines the pockets of labels and distributors.
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