Month: April 2014

Diamond Interview With The Breakfast Club Power 105.1

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Producer/Engineer Mike Dean – Pensado’s Place #159

Hip-hop Producer Mike Dean joins Dave and Herb on the 159th episode of Pensado’s Place. You have heard Mike’s mixing on “The College Dropout” and “Late Registration”, and his production work all over Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” [Pensado’s Place]


An Interview With Bassy Bob Brockman

“Bassy” Bob Brockman has a wide range of awards and credits, including more than 30 Grammy nominations with two wins, and an Oscar nomination. His many credits include Mary J. Blige, Toni Braxton, Brian McKnight, Faith Hill, Korn, Christina Aguilera, P Diddy, Santana, and Sting among many others. In this excerpt from The Mixing Engineer’s…


Alice Cooper: ‘Retirement is Not in My Vocabulary’ (Q&A)

“The Super Duper Alice Cooper” documentary premiered last night at the Tribeca Film Festival with a glimpse at the remarkable four-decade-plus career of its subject, who, at 66, is as busy as ever. Calling it a “doc opera,” Banger Films’ Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen and Reginald Harkema — who have previously produced movies about Rush…


@PopularDemand “Risk It All” @FreddieGibbs

Popular Demand has officially launched our original video series ‘Risk It All’ with the first installment featuring hip hop’s “underground king”, Freddie Gibbs. The video was premiered in an intimate setting for a group of his fans at the Popular Demand Flagship store during his meet & greet and signing event for “Cocaine Piñata.” Watch…


Irving Azoff’s Next Frontiers? Publishing and Blue-Chip Marketing

Azoff MSG Entertainment’s latest dealings in the marketing and publishing arenas say much about where the action is in the music business. On April 8, AMSGE, the joint venture between Azoff Music Management and the Madison Square Garden Co., announced its third acquisition since Irving Azoff and MSG partnered up last September. The group acquired…


The Key to Writing a Flo Rida Song

Want to write a hit single for Flo Rida? Well first of all, don’t be all soft and feminine. FACT got their hands on an email from Flo Rida’s team that details exactly what they’re looking for, and it’s kind of hilarious… or depressing, depending on how you look at it. Keep in mind, Flo…


Entrepreneurial Advice From Diddy

  The richest man in hip-hop sits down with @Forbes senior editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg to discuss his entrepreneurial vision—and what he’d do if he had to start all over again today.   [GRM Daily]


Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL Explore the Intersection of Electronic Music and Film Scores

Film composer Hans Zimmer and the electronic musician and film composer Junkie XL were well aware they were taking a meandering journey as they spoke about the evolution of electronic music as used in film scores during the International Music Summit on April 16. Their stories connected dots between the innovative German bands Can and…


Pharoahe Monch, Talib Kweli, R.A. The Rugged Man Discuss Rawkus Records’ Legacy

Starting in the mid-1990s, Rawkus Records was one of the preeminent independent Rap labels. In “The Oral History of Rawkus Records,” which was published on Myspace today (April 17), some of the imprint’s executives, employees and artists who worked with and for it discussed some of the company’s noteworthy milestones and qualities. “It was the beginning of the independent Hip…