The Nelson George Mixtape: Funky Demise of Black Band Culture, Part 2 The second section of a long essay about popular black music and bands examines, “where have the black bands gone?” Basically, into the 21st century black bands have become irrelevant to production... 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...
Atmosphere – Fishing Blues (Review) If you don't already know by now, Atmosphere is one of my all time favorite groups. So when our friends over at Rhymesayers Entertainment announced that they'd be coming out with a new album, I was eager to giv... Read More...
The Revolution Reunites To Salute Prince At the end of April, shortly after the untimely death of Prince, we reported that members of his original Purple Rain-era band, The Revolution had posted a video announcing their intention to reunite and "do so... Read More...
Personal Reflections of my Childhood Friend (Photo courtesy of - Tawala Sharp) Click Stream below to hear the interview Kevin Flemming, the Owner, Publisher and Editor of The Urban Buzz, joins The Mo’Kelly Show to share memories of his childhood f... Read More...
P A L M remembers Prince (1958-2016) Tragic News today in music. Prince was not only a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, but a childhood friend of The Urban Buzz's CEO Kevin Fleming. Rest in peace. ... Read More...
Prince and Madonna Madonna and Prince partied together after her “Rebel Heart” concert in Minneapolis on Thursday night. The singer and her dancers visited Prince’s Paisley Park studios — where he put on an intimate show for jus... Read More...
Prince’s Hit-N-Run Tidal Jam With a new album arriving Monday via Jay Z’s new music-streaming company Tidal, Prince is going to throw an old school blue light three-night Labor Day marathon party at his Paisley Park studio complex this wee... Read More...
Prince Speaks To NABJ Prince granted a rare sit down interview this past weekend to a select group of the National Association of Black Journalists in town for their annual convention at his Paisley Park studio in Minneapolis. In... Read More...
Doomtree – All Hands (Review) So this is a bit of a late review, since the Minneapolis rap collective Doomtree released their third album All Hands way back in January. I just had the pleasure of listening to it for the first time this week... Read More...