This week XXL magazine released a special issue which counts down the 250 greatest hip-hop songs from 1990-1999. Their choices are good, and, even more importantly, well defended. It is a very overwhelming task to evaluate so much great material and there were records that I was pleasantly surprised to see be included on the [...]

On Sunday, May 1, 2011, at the Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, with close to 10,000 people in attendance, Robert Ritchie, publicly known as recording artist Kid Rock, was honored by the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  He received its Great Expectations Award at the annual Fight [...]

Well, this isn’t my personal opinion… but according to Amazon.com today Lady Gaga’s newest album (featuring the fastest selling Single in history)  is available for 99¢.  I’m not sure if I view this as the deal of a century or an absolutely offensive indicator of where the music business is going…  Of course what Amazon

We’ve come a long way from “Video Killed The Radio Star.” As new technologies developed and budgets increased, the music video became a new avenue to market music. More importantly, it became a creative outlet where musicians and directors could put their visions to film and show them to the world. From Spike Jonze’s visionary [...]

Bon Iver just released the first single from his new album “Calgary” Take a listen and download it below. Make sure you let us know what you think!