The ‘Drop It Likes It’s Hot’ star is launching a series of ’street-lit’ books, which will chronicle a Californian man’s journey into the world of hip-hop.
Snoop Dogg, real name Calvin Broadus, is hoping his sensitive literary foray will draw in more female fans.
A protégé of Dr. Dre, rapper Eminem emerged in 1999 as one of the most controversial rappers to ever grace the genre. Using his biting wit and incredible skills to vent on everything from his unhappy childhood to his contempt for the mainstream media, his success became the biggest crossover success the genre had […]
There’s a new name nestled among the superstar artists atop the Billboard’s Classical Chart: Rolf Lislevand.
His latest album, “Nuove Musiche” (ECM New Series, March 3), features the Norwegian lutenist/guitarist joined by a host of notable colleagues from the early-music community, including percussionist Pedro Estevan and harpist/vocalist Arianna Savall (the daughter of viola da gamba virtuoso […]
RCA Label Group Nashville and Sony Music Nashville are separate operations no longer. In a delayed aftershock of the Sony-BMG merger, the company has restructured its country efforts, moving all its Music Row labels under a single umbrella called Sony BMG Nashville.
Joe Galante, the highly successful label kingpin who previously served as chairman of RLG […]
As part of the Doors’ 40th-anniversary celebration, the band will soon make 12 concerts from 1967 to 1970 available for download from its Web site, TheDoors.com.
Fans will be able to choose favorites from the quartet’s performances, many of which are previously unreleased, rather than having to buy a complete show.
The initiative is powered by Basecamp […]
Mexican pop diva Gloria Trevi, Puerto Rican reggaeton star Don Omar and other Latino artists have recorded a bilingual version of the U.S. national anthem in a show of support for migrants in the United States.
The Latino-oriented record label Urban Box Office (UBO) said Friday it would put the new Spanish-English version of “The Star-Spangled […]
Sonically relentless and visually groundbreaking only begin to describe the Tool experience. Formed in Los Angeles, CA in 1990, Tool has cemented themselves in today’s hard music community with uncompromising attitude and vision. With just one EP and three album releases over a 15-year span, Tool has created a loyal and even rabid fan […]
His was the voice of heartache and the lovelorn in the world of early rock’n’roll. Roy Orbison, who died in 1988 at age 52 of a heart attack, has been a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1987, a testament to his long popularity derived from his way of blending […]
Looking to revive a career that has seen better days, Michael Jackson announced Tuesday he has teamed up with a Bahraini music label to record a new album and is aiming for a late 2007 release.
The newly formed partnership is between Jackson and Two Seas Records, which is owned by Bahrain royal family member Abdulla […]
The last adjective usually attached to Toby Keith is “tame.” However, despite the evocative title White Trash With Money, the Oklahoman’s new album is his most mild-mannered collection since the late ’90s, before he busted out of the country music pack by emphasizing his outspoken opinions and swaggering personality.
The timing comes as a surprise, considering […]
If Tom Verlaine had been the love child of Madonna and Thom Yorke, Television might have been Pretty Girls Make Graves. Challenging has always been PGMG’s calling card, and that doesn’t change on this aptly titled entry. Opener “The Nocturnal House” finds heavily delayed, angular guitars mingling with siren-like whistle and mouth organ. “Pyrite Pedestal” […]
More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And its stories are both criminal minded and grand, making them enthralling and unbelievable, but also making them only as interesting and convincing as the teller. That’s why, despite being blackballed by the industry, without a major-label recording contract, heads […]
If you were alive and even semi-conscious in the year 2000, you undoubtedly heard “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down. It was inescapable. The song and the debut album from which it leapt, The Better Life, defied the laws of gravity. Both clung to the top of any given chart–album, singles, multi-format radio–for most of […]
Tupac Amaru was named after an Inca Chief, it’s meaning is shining serpent. Tupac Amaru Shakur grew up around many influential leaders of the Black Panther Party. His mother, born Alice Faye Williams, who later changed her name to Afeni Shakur, was a section leader in the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party […]
