Month: February 2015

‘Motown 25’ Special, Expansive Box Set Planned for Release

  In 1983, music icons like Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross came together for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, a live NBC special that celebrated the 25th year of that legendary label. Now an updated version of the program will air Saturday, February 28th at 8 p.m. EST on over 300 public…


Common and John Legend Win Best Original Song Oscar for “Glory” From Selma

Common and John Legend‘s song “Glory”, from the film Selma, has won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Watch them perform it at the Oscars ceremony below, backed by a full chorus in a recreation of Dr. Martin Luther King’s march on Selma, Alabama….


Imagine Dragons score debut UK No 1, while Ellie Goulding breaks streaming record

As Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Like You Do continues to conquer the singles top spot, Imagine Dragons’ new entry reshuffles the UK album charts, with their second album, Smoke and Mirrors, in at No 1. The US rock band earned their first UK chart-topper with the followup to their 2013 debut Night Visions, which peaked…


The Shape of Things to Come

  In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a little sheepishly, as if it belonged to someone else—has described himself as both “deeply, deeply tired” and “always anxious.” When he sits down,…


The Breakfast Club: Chris Brown


FELIX DA HOUSECAT HAS KICKED OFF AFTER BEING DENIED ENTRY TO BERGHAIN

On Friday night, Chicago house icon Felix Da Housecat attempted to get into Berlin’s Berghain but was refused entry. The producer then went to war with the club on Twitter, levelling plenty of criticism at the hallowed techno venue during his rant, including claims of racial discrimination, disrespect of Chicago and Detroit and a focus…


News RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY UK TOUR ANNOUNCED WITH A$AP ROCKY, NOVELIST & JULIO BASHMORE

Red Bull Music Academy has outlined its plans for a UK tour, which will hit 4 different cities and feature 192 artists. There’s far too much going on to list everything but basically, A$AP Rocky, Novelist (pictured above) and Julio Bashmore will all be involved in the antics which kick off at the end of…


Sony Music to Exit Old CAA Building

Sony Music is moving onto the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City during the next two years, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton aspires to synergize the com­pany’s properties within one complex, a la Disney’s Burbank headquarters….


Imagine Dragons Firing Up for First No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart

Imagine Dragons are on course for their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart. The band’s second full-length album, Smoke + Mirrors, may shift around 180,000 overall album equivalent units in the week ending Feb. 22, according to industry forecasters. That should be enough to bump Drake’s current leader, If You’re Reading This…


50 Cent Comments on Lil Wayne & Birdman’s Beef | MTV