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Here's an unexpected bit of music business news. The music-identifying app Shazam does a ridiculous amount of business. As a matter of fact, the discovery app is directly responsible for $300M in digital music sales according to Shazam's executive Vice President David Jones. Read More »
Things aren't looking so hot for everyone's favorite trash-pop diva, Ke$ha. Her album Warrior tanked pretty hard, her documentary My Crazy Beautiful Life is hardly generating a stir and, if the list of tour dates for Warrior is any indication- the "Die Young" singer may just be on her way out. Among the dates listed is (no joke) a state fair. This-coupled with the radio shunning of her latest single "Crazy Kids"- may signal the end for pop's resident skank. Read More »
In support of their recently released (and if the reviews are any indication, remarkably good) new album Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. The results proved what many people have known about Ezra Koening and the gang for quite a while: these afro-pop -loving, yacht rocking, Columbia-educated, arena touring musicians are really funny. Highlights below: Read More »
2 Chainz, Gucci Mane- Use Me, Second Collaboration Of Guwop's New Album 'Trap House 3' Read More »
As if it wasn't evident from his absolutely bonkers Easter earlier this year, Shawn "Jay-Z/Jigga/Hov" Carter has quite a soft spot for his firstborn, Blue Ivy Carter. According to his mother Gloria Carter, Jay "melts" when he's around his daughter (which is good because rumor has it wife Beyonce may have one more on the way). Read More »
It's been a few weeks since Jessica Sanchez dropped her debut album Me, You & The Music and just a few days since she made her amazing appearance on Glee as Frida Romero. You may think that now that the album is out and the Glee run is over, there'd be nothing to talk about in the land of the Blujays but you'd be wrong. Sanchez recently sat down with Billboard to discuss the process behind Me, You & The Music Read More »
It's finally here, folks: the moment we've been forcing ourselves to watch for for at least the last 3 seasons. The mother of Ted Mosby's children was revealed on last night's How I Met Your Mother, the season 8 finale "Something New." Who is she? Why none other than actress Cristin Milioti. Read More »
Great news, Little Monsters! Lady Gaga just gave her first performance (kind of) since her hip surgery in March. The ARTPOP diva rushed the stage at trumpeter Brian Newman's New York show for an impromptu jazz performance. The duo performed "Someone to Watch Over Me," a George Gershwin standard, during the Thursday night show. Read More »
Miley Cyrus' new album may feature lyrics that dive into her troubled relationship with Liam Hemsworth. The engaged couple have gone through many ups-and-downs as their marriage approaches and it seems some of that may be on the album. Read More »
R Kelly has tackled a lot in his career. Becoming the king of baby-making music at a time that featured the stiffest (Good Lord, no pun intended) competition for the crown this side of 1980, fashioning himself into a force in the world of production and, of course, creating a massive, ridiculous hip-hop soap opera that just works. It's why when he tells VIBE that he might be releasing some honky-tonk, I don't cast judgment, because it will probably be amazing. Read More »
Future has released a new version of his controversial song "Karate Chop." The song whose remix gained a lot of notoriety for an offensive lyric about slain teenager Emmett Till by Lil Wayne. The song caused Wayne to eventually be dropped by sponsor Mountain Dew at the request of the Till Family. Pray tell, who does Future pick to replace a rapper who just lost his sponsorship over lyrical controversy? Rick Ross who you may remember as another rapper who lost his sponsorship over controversial lyrics. Read More »
As most of you probably already know, Daft Punk's album was officially released for streaming purposes today on iTunes (if you didn't I'll provide the link below). However, the official album in its physical (or more than likely downloadable) form won't be here until May 21 and there's hype to be built. That's why Daft Punk is gracing the cover of Dazed and Confused and posing with Giorgio Moroder in these stunning black and white photos.https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/daft-punk/id5468295 Read More »
It's finally here, you guys. After weeks of buzz-building Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories is available to stream in full via iTunes. I thought we'd take a moment to backtrack over the last few weeks and cover how we got here. But first the reason you came here. Read More »
