Jay Z Goes Back To The Movies The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a two-year overall deal with Shawn "Jay Z" Carter to produce TV and film projects, the studio announced. This story, first reported by Variety (so it is truly a done deal)... Read More...
John Legend Expands His Underground Underground executive producer and music supervisor John Legend adds actor to his Underground resume when he’ll guest star as abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the second season of the WGN America drama. Mo... Read More...
Spotify and Apple Emerge As Music Streaming Winners According to music tech insiders music streaming in general has seen strong growth in 2016 and as it seems this recent increase in subscribers has largely been isolated to two major leaders in the streaming war... Read More...
Timbaland Exits Empire According to a published report by Billboard, Grammy® Award- winning producer, Timbaland, who helmed the songwriting team for Empire since its inception, has exited. Tim’s replacement is four-time Grammy® Award... Read More...
The Ugly Face of Music Streaming Wars Continues According to a recent article by CNN’s Seth Fiegerman, the face of music streaming is rearing its ugly head as each day passes. Grammy winner Frank Ocean received a ton of backlash from fans little more than a ... Read More...
Gladys Knight Sues Her Son In Atlanta Federal Court In the 80’s Gladys Knight sang “I will fight” and now, the fight may be with her son, Shanga. The Grammy® winner and R&B legend wants her name back among other things!! Word from the curb says Ms. Knight ha... Read More...
Samsung’s Milk Music Has Gone Sour Samsung has formally announced it is shutting down its floundering U.S. mobile music service, Milk Music on September 22. According to several reputable music tech sites, Milk Music which launched in 2014 exclu... Read More...
New Allegations of Prince’s Drug Hoarding Surface Just when you think music icon Prince can rest in peace, he is back in the headlines after new revelations have emerged about his alleged drug stash or as some call it, drug hoarding. After his sudden death on ... Read More...
Tamar Braxton’s Domestic Violence Incident: Say It Ain’t So Grammy® nominated singer Tamar Braxton and husband Vince Herbert were reportedly involved in a domestic violence incident this past weekend in Atlanta that resulted in the police being called to the Ritz Carlto... Read More...
The Continued Growth of On Demand Music Streaming Results of a recent study conducted by marketing research company, LOOP (Lots Of Online People) with 3,014 U.S. respondents, examined respondents’ attitudes toward more than 50 genres, compiled fans into the to... Read More...