Month: July 2012

DJ Drama Dream Chasin’ Pt.2

Keeping the conversation going, Drama discusses the origins of the Gangsta Grillz mixtape series, meeting Jeezy and T.I., relationship with Don Cannon and the competition. allindstrom


Chris Brown Fortune Tops Billboard

Bad publicity is still publicity. And according to HDD, Chris Brown’s Fortune is king of the charts after clocking an estimated 134k copies in its first week. Salute!


.38 Spesh & DJ Premier In The Studio

DJ Green Lantern documents .38 in the cooker listening to various beats by Preemo and the pair crafting their upcoming track, “No More”. We’re expecting nothing but good things to come out of this.


iSTANDARD PRODUCERS – BEHIND THE RHYMES INTERVIEW – DA INTERNZ (2 Parts)

Behind The Rhymes takes you behind the scenes and closer to the hit-makers. In this episode host, and Co-founder of iStandard Producers J-Hatch sits down with Grammy nominated production duo Da Internz, Marcos “Kosine On Da Beat” Palacios and Ernest “Tuo” Clark at The Dragonfly Los Angeles. Special thanks to all the event sponsors: Novation…


Pensado’s Place : ITL #13 Side Chain Compression

Dave goes over Sidechain Compression techniques, Tape Saturation plug-ins, and Steven Slate’s Trigger in this week’s “Into The Lair”


Sonic TALK 274 – Strad or Bad?

 


Spike Lee Prepping Michael Jackson ‘Bad’ Documentary

Spike Lee worked with Michael Jackson and considered him a friend, but the director says even he learned a lot combing through footage of the icon for a planned documentary about the singer’s “Bad” album. Lee calls it a “treasure chest of findings.” “We have footage in this documentary that no one’s ever seen, stuff…


Prince Parts Ways with Universal Music Publishing

Via The Hollywood Reporter/Allindstrom Prince has severed ties with longtime publisher Universal, according to Music Week. The reclusive pop icon has been signed with UMPG for years, re-upping his contract as recently as 2005. “We are pleased to announce that Prince and Universal have reached a mutual agreement in terminating their long standing publishing deal,”…


EMI Publishing to Begin Layoffs

This isn’t the news you like to hear. With the completion of Sony’s buyout, EMI is now taking an expected round of layoffs. According to Billboard, 7 top executives have already left the company and 30-40 employees will be cut this week. Sony/ATV has already taken over the administration of EMI. According to Sony/ATV chairman…


BuzzMedia To Announce Purchase of Spin Magazine

Mega-publisher BuzzMedia will likely be buying Spin Magazine out. According to Billboard, the home to Idolator, Stereogum, AbsolutePunk and KimKardashian.com, among other properties, will announce it’s acquisition of Spin sometime later today. Spin has been bouncing around between publishers for a while, and over the last year has focused on it’s digital side (a la…