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Hot off his DJ Snake party anthem collaboration “Turn Down For What,” Grammy Award winning artist Lil Jon has teamed with French producer Freaky Bass to create your new favorite day of the year, “Rager Day.” This classic Lil Jon tune is an epic track, which manages to deliver a serious punch without taking itself too seriously.
Continue readingCroker’s new album – AfroPhysicist – comes out on May 20, 2014 on Dee Dee Bridgewater’s DDB Records via Sony Masterworks’ imprint OKeh Records. This is Croker’s third album and the inaugural release on Bridgewater’s label. His music literally shape-shifts without pause through 12 captivating selections.
Continue readingOUT AMONG THE STARS (Columbia/Legacy), the remarkable, lost Johnny Cash album recently discovered by John Carter Cash and comprised of 12 previously unreleased songs that were recorded thirty years ago, has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart. Additionally, the album has debuted top 5 in multiple markets around the world.
Continue readingMusicians Institute (MI), Hollywood’s college of contemporary music, has become a major source of new talent for some of the hottest hitmakers of today, including Grammy Award-winning stars Pharrell Williams, CeeLo Green and many others. From graduates of the music school’s performing arts programs for guitar and drums, to former students in Audio Engineering courses—and even faculty instructors who teach singing lessons—MI has continued to be a hotbed of activity behind the biggest movers and shakers in the music industry.
Continue readingMulti-platinum, 2X Grammy Award-winning, 8X Latin Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter and global recording artist Shakira’s self-titled 10th album debuts at #2 onBillboard’s Top 200 Chart today marking the highest album debut and chart rank of her career and her first album release for RCA/Sony Latin Iberia. The album also held #1 position on the iTunes Chart release week in 69 countries, including the U.S. SHAKIRA. was released as a deluxe edition CD exclusively at Target which includes 3 exclusive bonus tracks, and also as a twelve track standard album at digital and physical retailers.
Continue readingMadonna announced today that Miley Cyrus will be the guest curator for Art for Freedom for the month of April. Miley will collaborate with Madonna to select daily submissions which will be showcased on artforfreedom.com. Launched in September 2013, Artforfreedom.com was created by Madonna as a vehicle to inspire artists around the globe to share their artistic representations on the subject of freedom and human rights.
Continue readingAcclaimed actress and Country Music icon Dolly Parton sits down with veteran newsman Dan Rather, for an honest and open interview where she discusses the pivotal moments in her illustrious and diverse career on AXS TV’s THE BIG INTERVIEW, Monday, April 14 at 8pE/5pP. The show will re-air on May 12 at 8pE/5pP to coincide with Parton’s latest album release BLUE SMOKE, which hits stores on May 13.
Continue readingNonesuch Records will release the cast recording of David Byrne’s Here Lies Love on April 22. The recording features music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim as performed by the original 2013 Public Theater cast of the Here Lies Love musical starring Ruthie Ann Miles and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos. Here Lies Love will be released digitally and as a two CD set and is available for pre-order at nonesuch.com with an instant download of the track “Child of the Philippines.”
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