Last week marked a huge night for country music. The annual CMT Country Music Awards, held at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, brought together all the greatest, most successful, and most beloved country music artists in America. Co-hosted by eventual winner Jason Aldean, who has co-written singles with Reservoir […]
Remember Sophia Grace? The pint-sized singer and diva-in-training, who is still only 10 years old, first stole our hearts when she sang and rapped Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” almost two years ago. Since then, Ellen DeGeneres has taken Sophia and her cousin Rosie under her wing, featuring them […]
Of the thousands of Reservoir tracks that deal–often very, very directly–with doing the deed, none put quite the same spin on it as Joe Cang’s “Make Love.” Don’t get us wrong–we still get down to “Get Low‘”, we still love perusing the “Candy Shop”, and we’ll always be […]
It seems like Lauryn Hill has been in the news, lately, for all the wrong reasons. In the midst of all that, we wanted to take a second to highlight not only Lauryn’s place among our all time favorite musicians, but the unique kinship she shares with Reservoir. Few […]
Levon Helm, the late drummer and co-lead singer of the legendary roots rock group both bold and bashful enough to simply call itself ‘The Band,’ was an anomaly of rock icons. This, more than anything else, is what permeates the months of intimate access director Jacob Hatley exhibits […]
When Reservoir added “Blink,” an animated, futuristic dance-pop by Kpop duo TVXQ, to its catalog this past year, the team knew something special was happening. Obviously, a new addition to the catalog is always met with some level of excitement–what’s more invigorating or inspiring than new music? In […]
This week, we learned that Facebook expanded their recently launched pay-to-message program all over the world. Here’s how it works: have something you want to say to someone who isn’t your Facebook friend? No problem. For a fee, starting at $1, you can get your message across. Sounds kind of […]
It’s no secret that recording artists like to, ahem, borrow qualities from other artists’ work. As publishers, instances of a borrowed phrase here, a mimicked melody there, or a wait-haven’t-I-heard-that-before hook come across our desks every day (to wit). As with any trend, the craze seems to move in waves, […]
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 […]
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 […]