British singer-songwriter Lotte Mullan is kicking off the start of Spring wth an acoustic tour she’s dubbed The Hollow Road Tour. She hits the road on Thursday with a stop in Winchester, England and continues throughout the U.K. through May. Highlight tracks from Mullan’s newest album, Plain Jane, include the strikingly […]
Eric Benet, the smooth R&B vet who dropped a new album, The One, last June, recently released a remix of the single “News For You”, featuring Reservoir writer 2 Chainz. The new mix samples the Lenny Kravitz song “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over,” and introduces 2 Chainz around 2:56, […]
When we learned that bad girl Azealia Banks had dropped her latest single, “Yung Rapunxel,” ahead of schedule, we weren’t too taken aback. The offbeat rapper/singer, known for her potty mouth and erratic behavior, often does the unexpected; it’s par for the course at this point. When all […]
2 Chainz has released a new music video for his song “Crack,” another soon-to-be hit from his #1 album, Based On A T.R.U. Story. “Crack” is one of Chainz’ more straightforwardly ‘urban’ tracks, referencing drugs and rough neighborhoods as opposed to the luxurious “Gucci store” lifestyle the rapper enjoys now. […]
“What is Black music?” It’s with this question that Platinum-selling songwriter and producer Nate “Danja” Hills opens an interview with The Urban Daily, in a conversation about the evolution of Rhythm & Blues. The chat is appropriately situated between February’s Black History month and Black Music Month in […]
True to anticipation, 2 Chainz is going global this year–the trendsetting rap star is scheduled to open for ’90s hip-hop trailblazer Nas at two concerts in the U.K. next week. The duo make a perfect musical pair, representing the past and present of modern hip-hop music. It’s also an interesting instance […]
Everybody’s got problems. So it seems, at least, judging by the enduring popularity of “F**kin’ Problems,” the single from A$AP Rocky, Drake, 2 Chainz, and Kendrick Lamar. After months of sales topping 1.2 million units and regular radio airplay and charting activity, it was announced today that the song […]
If there’s one seemingly inescapable argument that’s prevailed in the music industry over the last several years, it’s the relationship of music to its listeners. Does anyone really “own” a song now that music is primarily handled digitally? What’s better, song access or ownership? And so on, and […]
Fresh off the buzz from the latest of his several successfully hilarious Saturday Night Live stints, Justin Timberlake made an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon yesterday to perform a barbershop quartet version of his famous hit, “Sexyback,” produced by Danja. Backed by Fallon himself and the two other male singers […]
English and German indie rockers Art Brut have come full circle. Kicking off their career with a single appropriately entitled “Formed A Band,” the group rose to prominence as part of the early aughts indie wave that included Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party. Now, ten years after their […]