CMJ Music and Film Marathon
It happens once a year. You know, that time when starving artists bring their busted equipment to the Big Apple with high hopes of making headlines. When the media straps on their shiny press badges, waving them at anyone who will notice, and when New York City is reeling from the influx of a thousand [...]
Interview: Sander Van Doorn
Sander Van Doorn at the Austin Music Hall October 28, After Release of New Album “Elev11” Dutch DJ Sander Van Doorn, who currently sits at # 16 on this year’s DJ Mag top 100 DJs Poll will perform this Friday at the Austin Music Hall. We had the chance to interview Van Doorn for his [...]
Boyz II Men still making music after 20 years
In 1991, Boyz II Men arrived on the pop music scene with their own brand of R&B that peppered Motown-like harmonies with New Jack Swing, a genre that fused R&B, hip-hop and pop music. The following year their wrenching ballad “End of the Road” sent the Philadelphia natives to international superstardom, and Tuesday, the band [...]
Kim Kardashian signs on for role in Tyler Perry movie
From newlywed to “Marriage Counselor.” Kim Kardashian has signed on to star in Tyler Perry’s new movie, “The Marriage Counselor,” TheWrap has confirmed. The Lionsgate movie is about an accountant and his Ivy League-educated wife — a marriage counselor who is great at dispensing advice, but makes some seriously bad mistakes in her own marriage. [...]
Hip Hop stars Kanye West, Jay-Z sued
Kanye West and Jay-Z have hit a bum note with one songwriter who claims they lifted his material without permission. The two hip hop moguls are being sued by musician Syl Johnson, who claims in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois Friday alleging that West and Jay-Z sampled his 1967 song “Different [...]
Nile Rodgers goes beyond the disco in ‘Le Freak’
The chunka-chunka, funk guitar style he made popular with his band, Chic, was one of the trademarks of the disco era. And while Rodgers may not be a household name, songs he wrote with partner and bass player Bernard Edwards, including Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” and Diana Ross’ “I’m Coming Out,” certainly are. What [...]
Deadmau5 continues to amaze
Joel Zimmerman better known as Deadmau5 took the stage Wednesday night (September 14) for his second sold out show at the Austin Music Hall. Having seen Deadmau5 five times already, I had an idea what the countless fans were in store for. From the high school “Mau5”heads to the twenty something electro enthusiasts everybody was [...]
Jay-Z to open Nets’ arena
Nets part-owner Jay-Z will open the team’s new Brooklyn arena by performing there next September. The hip-hop mogul said at a news conference Monday across the street from the construction site that he will perform “one, two, maybe three” times at the Barclays Center. Dates haven’t been set. Jay-Z also made it official that the [...]
Austin Classical Guitar Society opens 22nd season with Austin Pictures
Austin Classical Guitar Society (ACGS) launches its new International Concert Series with Austin Pictures at Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater for their one night only performance on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 8:00 pm. Modest Mussorgsky’s masterpiece, “Pictures at an Exhibition,” will be brought to life on solo guitar by the youngest [...]
Eddie Murphy to host the Oscars
Eddie Murphy will host the 84th annual Academy Awards, according to its producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer. The actor and comedian will be carrying out the role for the first time at the ceremony, which takes place at the Kodak Theatre in LA on 26 February. The last comic to host the show alone [...]
