Questlove says in a series of tweets today (February 14) that Rolling Stone wasn’t fair to Drake when it changed its cover from Drake to actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who died of an apparent drug overdose February 2. “man, @Drake is a better man than i. RS can’t be playing w/ someone’s emotions like that. anytime we…

As a rapper whose 20-year career has relied on putting the personal on paper, Nas hasn’t been shy about letting the world into his own life. But with the announcement earlier this week of Street Dreams, his upcoming autobiographical drama series on Xbox, the rapper admits the show will be his most personal project yet….

In this video, via Dawsons Music, Manchester music pioneer Graham Massey (808 State) shares his thoughts on the new Roland AIRA TR-8 and TB-3 and the products that inspired it. See our previous Roland AIRA posts and the Roland site for more info. [Synthtopia]

From Kanye to Kelly Rowland, Big Sean has become one of the most sought-after MCs in the game. Before taking the stage at Power 106′s “Valentine’s Crush” concert in L.A. on Friday, the Detroit rapper spoke with Rap-Up TV about his latest collaboration with Jennifer Lopez. “J.Lo, Jenny from the block, she’s like OG,” said…

  Imagine Dragons was on top of the world on Valentine’s Day. “It’s been a wild last year,” a reflexive Dan Reynolds, fittingly dressed in a black short-sleeved tee one size too small (his midriff should have received co-starring credit) and dark skinny jeans, told the sold-out crowd at the renovated Forum in Inglewood, Calif.,…

Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) is to publish a new autobiography. The hardback version of the book will hit shelves in October and will be written by Lydon along with music journalist Andrew Perry. “This book is basically about the life of a serious risk-taker,” Lydon said. “I make things safe…

Last year, American Idol winner Phillip Phillips released the song “Gone, Gone, Gone” from his debut album The World from the Side of the Moon. The song went to #1 on the Adult Alternative and Adult Contemporary charts and peaked at #24 on Billboard‘s pop song chart, the Hot 100. For Gregg Wattenberg, one of…

Department 29 in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse of the Los Angeles Superior Court is a 50-by-50-foot box of dirty-blond wood and fluorescent light and a disheartening place of hard-luck stories and forlorn conclusions. On a Friday morning before Christmas, a long succession of civil cases involving special-needs trusts, disputed inheritances, stricken families and various other…

Building on the works of D.W. Griffith and the development of “continuity editing” in early film history, Soviet silent filmmakers would pioneer new innovative ideas about editing that moved film from an extension of theater into a mature and powerful artistic medium. [SoundWorks Collection]

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows how much I love, admire and respect great drummers. My good buddy Brian MacLeod certainly falls into this category, having been the pulse behind recordings of Sheryl Crowe, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Seal, Ziggy Marley and many more. I remember the first time I heard Crow’s “All I Wanna Do”…