Archive for September, 2008
Sean “Diddy” Combs announces new reality show “StarMaker”
MTV teams up with entertainment powerhouse Sean Combs and revolutionary, Emmy Award winning producer Mark Burnett for the brand new reality series “StarMaker.” The new series will set out to find the next history making superstars. MTV and Sean Combs have been developing “StarMaker” since fall of ’07 and made the [...]
Red Car Wire announce tour
With so many bands flooding the scene today it is difficult to find a band that is truly distinctive, but Red Car Wire proves that you can still rock hard on stage while the audience sings your lyrics
and screams for more! Red Car Wire is an energetic 4 piece modern rock band that fills clubs [...]
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson - review
The 2008 self-titled debut album of Jennifer Kate Hudson reflects her high-powered soulful style voice which is transcendent and timeless. Guests features on the album include Fantasia on “I’m His Only Woman”, Ludacris on “Pocketbook”, plus the highlights version of “And I am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls.
Handler to handle EMI marketing
Music News: Exec VP to head up efforts in North America — A former marketing executive with Virgin Mobile and the NFL has been tapped to head up EMI’s marketing efforts in the U.S. and Canada.
A half century of musical influence
Music News: McCabe’s builds a community that endures — Nancy Covey had a profound influence on my musical youth, although I was not able to put a face and name to my teenage experiences until a couple of weeks ago.
Singer Connie Haines dies at 87
Music News: Worked with Sinatra, Dorsey — Big-band singer Connie Haines, who performed with Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s, died Sept. 23 in Clearwater Beach, Fla. She was 87.
Philip Glass pens Walt Disney opera
Music News: NYC Opera commissions composer — New York City Opera has commissioned composer Philip Glass (”Koyaanisqatsi,” “The Hours”) to pen an opera about Walt Disney, to be staged in collaboration with Brit legit troupe Improbable.
Springsteen set for Super Bowl
Music News: Rocker to perform at halftime show — After dismissing rumors floated in the media in early August, NBC and the NFL have announced that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will, in fact, headline the Super Bowl XLIII halftime show at Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium on Feb. 1.
T.I. - Paper Trail - review
T.I. has grown to truly be one of his generation’s most captivating speakers. Whether he’s conversing frankly with a room full of youth about the positive side of staying in school and following their dreams, or moving tens of thousands at one of his concerts, the audiences are immediately engrossed by the King of the South’s words.
Lucinda Williams - biography
Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit’s shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies — but she’s never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey.
“I’m in a different phase of my life, so there are more happy moments [...]
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