The first time Om’Mas Keith heard the entirety of Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange—an album he helped create alongside Frank and a close team of collaborators—he grabbed the nearest bottle of champagne. Maybe a few almonds, […]
It is 50 years since Nick Drake made Pink Moon, his third and final studio album, yet his gossamer melodies still beguile us. They are as mysterious as their creator, who almost never performed live […]
The most apparent truth about Mike Paradinas’s glitchy, skittering music is that it doesn’t like to sit still. As μ-Ziq, Paradinas established himself in the arena of 90s experimental, abstract and tweaked-out electronica, his sense […]
Photo Credit: Acraze YouTube Florida-based producer ACRAZE has signed with Capitol Records in partnership with Thrive Music. The signing comes as ACRAZE is riding the global popularity of his hit, “Do It To It.” Since […]
Photo Credit: Oliver Heldens DJ and producer Oliver Heldens launches his first NFT collection via OneOf with designer and fellow Netherlands-native Dennis Osseweijer. Oli Pods: The Genesis Collection is an “awesomely animated” series of collectibles, […]
Norman Dolph, the music industry polymath best known for his early work with The Velvet Underground, has died. He was 83. In a statement issued Friday, Planetary Group confirmed that Dolph had died on May […]
“Churchill Downs” is poised for ubiquity thanks to its teaming of chart toppers Jack Harlow and Drake. But the track started off as a much more low key, and deeply moving, collaboration for hotshot Toronto […]
Photo Credit: Frank Schwichtenberg / CC by 3.0 The filmmaker behind the Astroworld tragedy documentary says he believes the rapper should be in jail. Documentary filmmaker Charlie Minn told Page Six that the rapper is […]
Justin Lin has bowed out as Fast X’s director. Variety reports that while he will no longer helm the Fast and Furious franchise film, he will stay on as a producer. Lin co-wrote Fast X with […]
As a DJ, Nairobi talent Coco Em has made a major name for herself in recent years as a standard-bearer for all sorts of sounds, often centering on those local to her like Kenyan Shrap and […]
Scottish electro producer Galaxian, real name Mark Kastner, will release his first album in over a decade. We Are Power follows Galaxian releases on Helena Hauff’s Return to Disorder and Ilian Tape, plus a collaborative […]
Marvel has tapped Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes to direct its new Ironheart series for Disney+, and Ryan Coogler’s production company Proximity is also now on board the Dominique Thorne-starring project. Deadline notes the character—Iron Man’s mentee/successor Riri Williams—is set […]
Shared from www.latimes.com The late James Yancey, a.k.a. J Dilla, photographed in 2000 at the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. (Gregory Bojorquez / Getty Images) The first time you hear an […]
Shared from www.digitalmusicnews.com Whodini performing live. Larry Smith produced several of the group’s albums, including 1984’s ‘Escape.’ Photo Credit: Brett Hammond About two weeks after revealing that it had “$3 billion worth of deals in […]
Shared from www.cnn.com The title refers to a procedure practiced by corporate giant Lumon Industries in which employees sever their memories of what transpires at work from what happens outside, and vice versa, theoretically bringing […]
Shared from CNN.com – RSS Channel – Entertainment Reitman created some of the most enduring comedic films of the ’80s and ’90s, including 1984’s “Ghostbusters,” which he produced and directed. The movie was a major […]
Shared from Culture | The Guardian Rick Rubin, founder of Def Jam Records and the most highly regarded music producer of his time, has announced his first book. The Creative Act: A Way of Being […]