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On the heels of his 95th birthday, the architect of L.A. landmarks looks back on his career and the ever-enduring myth that his Capitol Records building is intended to resemble a stack of records.
In a guest column, the leadership of Industry Blackout takes issue with Capitol Records' FN Meka, a digital rapper pulling from the worst stereotypes of how appropriators view Black culture.
A little more than two years into Barnett’s stewardship as chairman and chief executive, Capitol Music Group finished 2014 as the No. 2 label group, tallying 8% of recorded music sales in the U.S.
When Capitol Records signed so-called robot rapper FN Meka earlier this month, it billed the move as a new frontier in the music industry. But the company announced on Tuesday that it has ...
Capitol’s vinyl sales are up 19% for the first six months of the year, compared with the same period in 2015. Capitol Records’ 44-year-old studio technician Ian Sefchick rehabbed the machine.
Halsey and Capitol Records are going their separate ways, spokesperson for both the artist and the label confirmed to Variety Saturday. “After eight great years the decision to leave Capitol is ...
Capitol Records announced last week that it had signed the rapper — who had 10 million followers — hyping the virtual character as “the world’s first A.R. artist to sign with a major ...
Robot rapper done at Capitol Records 00:24. A virtual rapper is out at Capitol Records just two weeks after being signed by the label. FN Meka was touted earlier this month as the world's "first ...
Capitol Records Valerie Macon/GI S ix years after Capitol Records won a $3.5 million judgment against a music-sharing site called ReDigi, attorneys for the label are still trying to collect it.
The case is Capitol Records LLC v. ReDigi Inc, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-00095. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York and Alistair Barr in San Francisco ...