NEW YORK, NY (May 11, 2012) – Last night, SESAC, the nation’s fastest growing performing rights organization, awarded Rico Love with top honors at the 16th Annual SESAC Pop Music Awards when he was named Songwriter of the Year, at NYC’s Skylight Soho. Multi-platinum superstar Usher made a surprise appearance at the awards to present [...]
1. Was the Maybach Music press conference something out of the P.T.Barnum playbook?
Dick Clark who is known as American’s “Oldest teenager” died today at the age of 82 from a massive heart attack. Clark is an icon of the television era who started his career in 1947 and he would eventually host American Bandstand, Pyramid and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Clark’s involvement in Bandstand is [...]
New York, NY (April 18, 2012) – SESAC, the nation’s most progressive performing rights organization, will present Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Bryan-Michael Cox with the prestigious “Inspiration Award” at the upcoming 2012 SESAC Pop Music Awards. Cox, a multi-faceted musical talent, will be honored for his significant artistic, philanthropic and entrepreneurial contributions at the annual awards [...]
Twenty-six years ago Run DMC stormed into the museum of rock and put their trademark Stetson fedoras on top of mannequin heads designed to look like The Beatles. The late actor Calvin DeForest tried to shoo them out by yelling, “You don’t belong here” but Darryl and Run refused to leave while white rockers played [...]
The-Dream SXSW by YardieGoals 1. Isn’t The Dream telling the truth when he talks about the world’s fascination with white people doing soul music and Blacks being pigeonholed into pop? And doesn’t it prove that the bottom line at major labels is not just money but whiteness? 3. How could Whitney Houston have died of [...]
(Los Angeles, CA. March 19, 2012) Audio visual pioneer V Squared Labs (vquaredlabs.com) and founder Vello Virkhaus will be lighting up the main stage of this year’s ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (ULTRA), the world’s premiere electronic music event, starting Friday, March 23- Sunday, March 25, 2012, at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. This year, ULTRA is [...]
1. Have you heard the Robert Glasper Black Radio album yet? 2. Are hip-hop fans supposed to forgive Too Short’s 30 years of willful ignorance that made him a millionaire because he said the record companies conspired against conscious rap? 3. Isn’t it funny that Estelle says that R&B is taken more seriously in the [...]
1. Would Whitney Houston have really wanted Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy party to go on while her dead body was in a hotel room floors above the event? 2. Isn’t it pretty cool that George Clinton received an Honorary Doctorate from the Berklee School of Music? 3. Is it really necessary to have XXL’s Editor-in-Chief, Vanessa [...]
