Beauty review: Netflix’s faux Whitney Houston movie misses its key beats

Beauty (Grace Marie Bradley) and Jasmine (Aleyse Shannon) stand together, staring into the camera with their arms draped over each other, in Netflix’s Beauty.

Netflix’s movie Beauty isn’t a Whitney Houston biopic — at least, not officially. The Chi creator Lena Waithe changed all the familiar names in Houston’s life to allegorical signifiers for this story about a young, […]

We Now Know How Much Tyrese Gibson Cost Dr. Dre When He Leaked Apple’s Beats By Dre Acquisition

We Now Know How Much Tyrese Gibson Cost Dr. Dre When He Leaked Apple's Beats By Dre Acquisition

As far as costly social media blunders go, they don’t get much more costly than the blunder made by Tyrese Gibson back in 2014. And after years of wondering and conjecturing, we now know exactly […]

Swing Time: Blue Lab Beats

photo credit: Iliana Kanellopoulou *** “For me, it’s the law to play behind,” notes David “Mr DM” Mrakpor, multi-instrumentalist of London duo Blue Lab Beats. “It just feels better.” He’s reflecting on the laid-back groove […]

Blue Lab Beats Release Blue Note Debut Album, ‘Motherland Journey’

Shared from www.udiscovermusic.com London-based GRAMMY and MOBO nominated jazztronica duo Blue Lab Beats have released their long-awaited full-length and Blue Note Records debut Motherland Journey. The album release comes with a visualizer video for the […]