Reservoir’s own SVP of Creative and Business Development, Faith Newman, will be a guest on tonight’s Frozen Files Presents radio show on East Village Radio. Jockeys Schott Free and Matt Life host the weekly series, which reminisces hip-hop’s bygone classic era, the ’90s. Newman, best known for signing hip-hop and R&B trailblazers […]
Reservoir is proud to welcome you to our first-ever company blog! This is a space to explore the sometimes baffling business of music, the fun and fickelness of popular culture, and the treasures and traps of technology with imagination, introspection, and humor. We hope you find posts amusing, […]
“Bad Girls” strikes again! After popping up just about everywhere–Step Up Revolution, The Mindy Project, The Heat, even among this year’s Grammy nominees–the unstoppable track is now in the new Universal Pictures film Identity Thief not once but twice, appearing in the flick’s opening and closing credits. Identity Thief follows the […]
“Bandz A Make Her Dance,” the smoky club hit rapped by Juicy J, Lil Wayne, and 2 Chainz, is officially Gold. The news ran in RIAA’s announcement of new year Platinum and Gold certificate earners. In the piece, “Bandz” is named one of five first-time winning singles, alongside Kendrick […]
Bridgit Mendler’s debut single, “Ready or Not” has officially been certified Gold by the RIAA. The track, which interpolates The Delfonics’ “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)” from the Nickel Shoe catalog, was released late last summer. Since then, it’s gained nearly 23 million video views and charted […]
MØ, the Danish electro-pop artist turning heads at trend-spotting media outlets like Pitchfork, Fader, and Music Week, has released a new video to accompany her latest single, “Glass.” Fader showcased “Glass” along with MØ’s hand-written lyrics back in January, directing listeners to check out the track’s distinctive “Scandi screams.” Today, the blog featured […]
Reservoir songwriter 2 Chainz made his television debut last night, appearing on CBS’ sitcom 2 Broke Girls, as announced in January. The artist, who was a triple nominee in this weekend’s Grammy Award ceremony, made a cameo as his jetsetting self en route to the Grammys. Characters Max and Caroline (our […]
E*Trade, the financial services company known for its trademark spokesbaby, picked up Calvin Harris and Tinie Tempah’s “Drinking From The Bottle” for its latest commercial spot. The spot features the E*Trade baby offering his most direct finanical advice to date (“Save it! Boom!”), while a montage features the decadent […]
Super Bowl XLVII will be remembered for many things–its signature pull-out-all-the-stops commercial lineup, an unexpected power outage that left fans and players in the dark for over half an hour. Perhaps most memorably, though, Super Bowl XLVII will be remembered as the game Beyonce won. Anticipation for the pop/R&B […]
Reservoir’s own SVP of Creative and Business Development, Faith Newman, has long been known for her impressive resume in the world of hip-hop A&R. Now, she is immortalized in hip-hop culture as one of Complex magazine’s 25 Best A&Rs in Hip-Hop History. The nod, which came as a surprise to […]