If you missed last night’s kickoff, you can hear it below—because we both know you’ve been dying to catch up with Pat and Seb.
In case you were living under a rock, the Billboard Music Awards happened last night.
MAX showed me his Hell’s Kitchen and took me on an audiovisual tour of the streets he walks everyday.
Record-store owners owe Apple iTunes a tremendous debt of gratitude for being an uncaring, scatter-brained, inhuman little jukebox: It’s saving their skin right now.
The running narrative in the music world during the past decade is that the physical album is dead, and file-sharing, downloads and, most notably, Apple’s iTunes killed it. Yes and no.
Get down with Motown. Episode 6 playlist for First Person w/ Josh Madden: The Drifters — Up On The Roof Martha & The Vandellas – Heat Wave The Four Tops — I Can’t Help Myself The Isley Brothers – Twist And Shout Otis Redding — Respect Doris Troy — Just One Look The Chordettes — Mr. Sandman Jean Knight — Mr. Big Stuff The Elgins — Heaven Must Have Sent You Martha & The Vandellas – Jimmy Mack Sam Cooke – You Send Me The Supremes — You Can’t Hurry Love Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Walk Like… Read more »
President Barack Obama presented Paul McCartney with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to popular music on Wednesday night.
Sting, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Dame Shirley Bassey will perform together at Carnegie Hall, as part of the bi-annual Rainforest Fund benefit concert on May 13.
In 1985, Justin Bieber was nine years from being born, Auto-Tune was 12 years from being invented, and Lil Wayne turned 3.
If Michael Jackson were alive today, there’s a good chance he’d be working with Lady Gaga.
Michael Jackson fans paid tribute to the King of Pop the best way they knew how last week: by buying his music. In the first full week following the death of Jackson at age 50, and with retailers fully prepared for the onslaught of buyers, the fallen pop idol sold an astonishing 800,000 solo albums, dominating the charts in a way not seen since his heyday in the early 1980s. According to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan, Jackson’s sales nearly doubled from the week before, with his music occupying all 10 spots on the Top Catalog Albums chart, led by… Read more »
