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...
The Nelson George Mixtape:The Funky Demise of Black Band Culture, Part One At the intermission of a performance in Boston in 1919, band leader James Reese Europe called an impromptu meeting with his two drummers, Steve and Herbert Wright. Apparently, Europe, a man who had high sta... Read More...
Can Listening to Music Improve Your Concentration? Can listening to music improve your concentration? Photo: hitesh choudhary / CC0 Try tuning in the next time you have lots of work to get through. If you’ve ever tried working in a busy office or found i... Read More...
Lee Daniels Announces Empire Spinoff If Lee Daniels has his way, there will be two versions of Empire on television and with the recent announcement of a greenlight for season 4 of the music industry-based drama, Lee appears to have the keys t... Read More...
Yolanda Adams Returns To Radio Grammy® winning Gospel superstar and minister Yolanda Adams has done nothing but keep it moving since her abrupt separation from the Reach Media/Radio One airwaves some six months ago. Yolanda is proof that whe... Read More...
Who’s Winning The Streaming Showdown? According to CEO Daniel Ek, Spotify has reached another milestone as the streaming platform recognizes 30 million paying subscribers and 55 million listeners. The oft referred to market-leading global music ser... Read More...
In 2015, 52% of All Music Spending Went to Live Concerts According to just-released data from Nielsen, more than half of every dollar spent on music in the US went to live events. The survey, conducted last year, showed a massive 52% of music-related consumer spendin... Read More...
The Land of Lyor and Liles Lyor Cohen & Kevin Liles Former Warner Music Group Recorded Music chief Lyor Cohen has been laying low since exiting the company a little over a year ago and now we know why!! Cohen has partnered with f... Read More...
