Spotify defies expectations and disappoints everyone Joe Rogan and Meghan Markle don't work for free, bro... By Terry Matthew -February 3, 2021 Facebook Twitter Pinterest ReddIt Telegram Spotify released their fourth-quarter earnings today and nobody is very pleased. The company reports it lost 66 cents per share on revenue of $2.17 billion (with a [...]
Black Coffee Releases Career-Defining Album ‘Subconsciously’ Lisa Kocay Contributor Arts I believe in good food, good wine and good music Nathi Maphumulo is best known to his fans as Black Coffee, a world-renowned DJ, and producer who is considered the godfather of South African house music. The legendary artist hasn’t released [...]
Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half--baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back/ Marcus Barnes Many people got their first taste of South African dance music this year via six Angolans dancing in their backyard, dinner plates in hand. Their [...]
Andrea ZarczynskiContributor Hollywood & Entertainment I write about news and emerging trends in the music industry The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) officially opened its doors today during a ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville. When the museum opens to the public on Jan. 30, visitors will be able to view a new “Business [...]
House Music Community we have lost one of our own. Our Brother and friend William Morrison has unexpectedly passed. Many of you in the NYC area knew our Brother "The Professor"! William would often tell us he wasn't a DJ he was a journeyman taking us on a ride with dj sets. Not only [...]
RAFAEL MORAES - ONE SHOT FEAT. CAPITOL A EP - PRE-ORDER NOW!!! Out on Yoruba Records featuring Osunlade and Karizma Remixes Rafael Moraes is returning after a long hiatus recording his upcoming debut full-length release ‘The Reconnection’. In true deep fashion, Rafa delivers with the first single, ‘One Shot’, featuring the flow and groove of [...]
House music originator Marshall Jefferson on how the rise of EDM has whitewashed dance music and crippled Black artists MARSHALL JEFFERSON 28 OCTOBER 2020 I remember being on a panel at the New Music Seminar with the late Tony Wilson called ‘America doesn’t respect its Black artists’. In the ready room I was told by Tony that [...]
The long-serving UK house DJ has blasted the UK government's approach to nightlife SEB WHEELER Fat Tony has used an appearance on Sky News to blast the UK government's approach to nightlife during the coronavirus pandemic. Appearing on Kay Burley's show yesterday, the long-serving UK house DJ spoke at length on how the government is currently [...]
FacebookTwitterEmail The OG DJ/producer made his lasting mark with "Move Your Body" in 1986, the first-ever piano house track, which reemerged late last year with a hugely popular remix from Solardo. His latest, "Let's Get Busy," also brings new life to a classic ANA MONROY YGLESIAS GRAMMYS AUG 17, 2020 - 4:08 PM With [...]
He opened the all-ages club at 3257 N. Sheffield Ave. on the North Side in 1983, and it became a haven for teenagers who felt as if they never quite fit in anywhere. By Madeline Kenney Aug 9, 2020, 10:12pm CDT Dave Shelton, who died Friday, got the nickname “Medusa” for his voluminous curly locks, ran [...]
