[youtube id="b02WrcqrvEA" width="620" height="360"] Asia Sparks had a breakout year in 2012 and she isn't going to let 2013 slip out of her hands without a fight. Asia starts the year of right by letting IAmNotARapperiSpit.com exclusively drop her newest highly anticipated (because she promotes eve... Read more...
Limiting children’s salt intake could be one way to reduce childhood obesity, new research suggests. The study of more than 4,200 Australian children 2 to 16 years old found that those who ate more salt also drank more fluids, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages — namely soda, fruit dr... Read more...
Lovemark - Provides, Meaning & Purpose [EP] In a contemporary pop age of increasingly tired homogeneity, Lovemark is a very welcome breath of fresh air, out to make his own unique footprint in the long history of Swedish hip-hop. Provides Meaning & Purpose is Lovemarks debut ... Read more...
Charter schools are about to get a reality check. As someone who has observed the breakneck pace of the growing charter school movement up close, Greg Richmond, who leads the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), is taking a step back. “We didn’t start this mo... Read more...
What do you get when you mix a soulful songstress from Memphis, Tennessee, and a producer from Toronto, Canada? A fusion of sounds that is rousing. Consisting of members Kylea and Okito (also known as Synopse), their musical influences include Jill Scott, Bob Marley and even Wu-Tang Clan. ... Read more...
Cedrico Green can’t exactly remember how many times he went back and forth to juvenile. When asked to venture a guess he says, “Maybe 30.” He was put on probation by a youth court judge for getting into a fight when he was in eighth grade. Thereafter, any of Green’s school-... Read more...
Legendary Label Receives First Official Retrospective Seminal Music from Bill Laswell, Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Mixer DS.T & more Change The Beat The Celluloid Records Story 1980 – 1987 Strut kicks off its 2013 release schedule with the first definitive overview of one of the most rev... Read more...
Irving Azoff: Sorry to f--- up your New Year's, Ray. Billboard: I thought that was the motivation for announcing today. A: It wasn't to f--- up New Year's, it was to pay [taxes] on 2012 rates rather than 2013. Q: Something like this would seem to have been in the works for quite a w... Read more...
Geffen Records chairman Gee Roberson will transition to create and own a full service record company called Blueprint to be distributed by Interscope Geffen A&M, it was announced today by Interscope Geffen A&M chairman/CEO Jimmy Iovine and president/COO John Janick. The company desc... Read more...