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Cozy AF: Charlamagne Tha God Re-Signs With iHeartRadio For Another 5 Years
Source: WENN.com / WENN It seems Charlamagne tha God is staying put at the company that helped make him a household name. He has signed a new contract to keep him at iHeartRadio for another five more calendars. Page Six is exclusively reporting that Lenard is not done pulling boss moves in 2020. The on air personality has re-signed with the media conglomerate to keep him as the face of The Breakfast Club for another half decade. Additionally the new deal will afford him some added responsibilities as an executive in a Senior Creative Officer role. The Moncks Corner, South Carolina native will continue to define the strategy and content for his “Black Effect Podcast” platform which is a 50/50 venture. He detailed his enthusiasm regarding the new situation. “iHeart has shown me that the...
COVID Crazy: Ohio Nightclub Fined For Hosting Trey Songz Show With No Social Distancing
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Die hard Trey Songz fans looked contamination in the face and didn’t blink once. He recently performed a live set in the Midwest and faced a mask less crowd. As spotted on NBC News the Petersburg, Virginia native took the stage at Club Aftermath on Saturday, December 5. While Covid-19 continues to spike throughout the country this performance threw care to the wind as the staff clearly did not enforce any social distancing policies. Photos from the event show hundreds of patrons standing very closely together. To add yet another jarring layer to the scene PPE was not enforced even with close to 500 people in the house. This high profile event landed on the Ohio Investigative Unit’s radar and naturally they spot checked the show. The agents state...
Sony Music Names Jean-Sebastien Permal Director of A&R in Continental Europe & Africa
Permal, who was born in Mauritius, moved to Vienna in 2014 to pursue a career in music management and publishing. He joined Sony Music Germany’s label Four Music in 2017 before expanding his A&R role to encompass all of Sony Music’s labels across Europe and Africa the following year. “With his deep roots in African and European music, Seb is well positioned to connect the dots among our A&Rs across the world to help artists succeed on a global scale,” said Sony Music president of Continental Europe and Africa Daniel Lieberberg, whom Permal will directly report to. “He is one of the most creative and well connected executives in both regions and a most valuable source of expertise for our artists and creatives.” Since 2018, Permal has worked with Sony Music’s labels on a number of a...
Mickey Guyton, Charley Pride & More Black Artists to Receive Grammy Nods in Country Categories
Charley Pride: Ten nods in the country field between 1966 and 1979. One win: Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs won best country vocal performance, male for 1972. The album logged 16 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart in 1972. It contained Pride’s signature song, the charming “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” a No. 1 hit on Hot Country Songs for five weeks in 1971-72. The Pointer Sisters: Two nods in the country field in 1974-75, plus another for Anita Pointer and Bonnie Pointer for writing “Fairytale,” a best country song nominee. “Fairytale” won for best country vocal performance by a duo or group, 1974. “Live Your Life Before You Die” was nominated in the same category the following year. The former track was from the Pointers’ album That’s a Plenty; the latter ...
Harold Budd, Avante-Garde Composer, Dies at 84
Composer Harold Budd died on Tuesday at the age of 84, as confirmed by his musical collaborator, Cocteau Twins co-founder Robin Guthrie. The innovative composer, poet, and pianist famously developed the “soft pedal” style of playing piano and is most known for his work with artists like Guthrie and Brian Eno of Roxy Music. The native Angeleno was born on May 24, 1936 and spent the first half of his life in academia, receiving a graduate degree from the University of Southern California before joining the military as a drummer and then venturing into a career as a professor. By the mid-1970s, Budd had found a new calling as a musician and an unparalleled songwriter, combining jazz and new age music with his minimalist approach to compose memorable tracks both with artists as well as f...
Kygo Partners With E-Learning Startup for Electronic Dance Music Production Course
If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to produce dance music from one of the industry’s biggest stars, now is your chance. A new Silicon Valley startup called Monthly has partnered with dance music superstar Kygo to offer an end-to-end music production course. With the promise of producing three release-ready songs in 30 days, Kygo’s course is extremely immersive and hands-on. According to Kygo’s course page on Monthly’s website, patrons are able to learn a slew of music production techniques from the tropical house pioneer. They will learn how he arranges his music, layers his sounds, how he produces and manipulates vocal chops, and the way he programs drums, basses and synths, among other components. Users will be guided through a step-by-step curriculum c...
Dirtybird Co-Founder Worthy Announces She is Transgender
Worthy, one of Dirtybird‘s co-founders and original artists, has announced that she is Transgender. Worthy shared the news in a triumphant Facebook post, writing that she considers herself to be non-binary and feels “stronger, happier, and more in charge” of her life. “Today I break free, come out (or whatever metaphor I am supposed to be using) I am ready to say this to the WORLD!!!” she wrote. “I am Transgender.” Worthy helped launch Dirtybird over 15 years ago as one of its four co-founders. In addition to dropping many groundbreaking tracks on the renowned imprint, she released music on Polydor, Defected, and Toolroom, among other illustrious dance music banners. At one point, her sound was described by techno music legend Carl Cox as R...
Judge Orders Dame Dash To Appear For Deposition Or Lose The Case
Source: Stefanie Keenan / Getty Dame Dash might have it in him to cut ass on lawyers who depose him, but his detrimental habits in the court room might cost him yet another lawsuit if he continues to play coy. Page Six is reporting that a court judge has ordered the former Roc-A-Fella co-founder to appear for a deposition no later than the end of January 2021 after skipping out on his November 20 hearing. Dame Dash is currently facing a lawsuit from director Josh Webber over his film “Dear Frank” which he claims Dash tried to pass off as his own. According to Webber, Damon was indeed involved in the project for a second but even after he left the project kept fielding offers and even renamed it “The List” which confused anyone in the know. Dash has said that he actually directed the film a...
Plot Thickens: Calboy Posts Cryptic Tweet After Ann Marie Shooting Arrest
Source: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office / Fulton County Sheriff’s Ann Marie, a singer out of Chicago who has amassed a respectable following as an artist, is currently experiencing her career being derailed after her arrest in Atlanta at the top of the month. Details are emerging regarding the shooting incident in a Buckhead hotel that left one man seriously wounded and Ann Marie arrested, but the singer’s alleged actual boyfriend Calboy posted a cryptic tweet suggesting there is something afoot. Ann Marie, real name Joann Slater, was arrested and facing charges of possession of a firearm and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to the few details that have been released, Slater told police that she and the now-named shooting victim, 24-year-old Jonathan Wright, were visiting ...
Apple To Drop $549 Premium AirPods Max Headphones Before Christmas
Source: Apple / apple Christmas is right around the corner so you know what that means: companies are coming for your moooneeey. Apple for one is looking to cash in (big time) on holiday shoppers searching for Christmas gifts to give to their loved ones and don’t mind dropping a grip to see that Christmas morning smile. According to The Verge, Apple is about to roll out some next level noise canceling headphones dubbed the AirPods Max on December 15 (a week and change before the gifting begins) and will come in a five different colors while offering the same technologically enhanced features. The AirPods Max come in five colors: space gray, silver, sky blue, green, and pink. They feature what Apple calls a “custom acoustic design” with a 40mm driver system “that provides rich, deep bass, a...
TDE’s Audio Engineer Extraordinaire MixedByAli Purchases Former Death Row Records Studio
Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Derek “MixedByAli” Ali has become one of the most sought after audio engineers of his era, applying his mixing and mastering skills with the Top Dawg Entertainment stable of artists and beyond. Over the weekend, MixedByAli shared via social media a virtual tour of his new recording studio home, which just happens to be the former studio used by Death Row Records. MixedByAli took to Instagram this past Sunday (Dec. 6) and shared details on his new studio, which is apparently known as NoName Studios/EngineEars Office. From IG: This is Death Row Records former studio, where they recorded and mixed @drdre ‘The Chronic 2001’, @snoopdogg ‘The Dog Pound’, Tupac’s ‘All Eyes On Me’ and countless other records that shaped my childhood and inspired me to create the mu...
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Is Selling 2,655 Previously Unreleased Demos for a Class Project
If you want to make that special Weezer fan you know happy this holiday season, Rivers Cuomo has a gift for you. The Weezer singer/guitarist just posted 2,655 demos on his website that are now for sale. Priced at $9 per era, it goes wayyyyy back to when he was a 6-year-old in 1976 through 2015. Why did he decide to release these now? Because it’s finals time! In a tweet, Cuomo explained that building the site was part of a project for the class “CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript.” The market page was added to his existing Mr. Rivers’ Neighborhood site, which launched last month. If you’re a completist and want the whole collection, you’ll get nearly two days of music for $81. The EWBAITE Years (2011-2014) alone is a whopping 38 hours worth of material and contains...
