What was The Latin Project's first album called?
What is the title of Q-Tip's solo debut album?
Nickodemus collaborated with which UK producer on his iTunes featured hit, "Mi Swing Es Tropical?"
DJ Spinna uses his Wonderwax label to introduce Selan, a talented keyboardist who's been playing behind the scenes for far too long.
As Selan started to make a name for himself as an upcoming session/live keyboardist on the New York scene &...
TLP Musica Records
British producers Jez Colin and Matt Cooper pulled together a diverse collection of seasoned vocalists and players to form The Latin Project in 2002. Since its inception, the Los Angeles-based...
Elizabeth's warmly personal songs reflect the diverse influences of her lifelong pursuit of music. She grew up in New York's Greenwich Village, just down the street from the Cafe Wha? and the Fat Black Pussycat, where her future heroes Bob Dylan...
The rest of the world is catching up to what Baltimore has known all along, Baltimore Club music is hot! Ultra Naté and Unruly Records bring the dynamic, up-tempo, energy-driven sound to the world stage. Bmore Club, which was pioneered by...
For Diane Birch, a girl growing up as the youngest child of a traveling preacher, music became a refuge. Although born in Michigan, Birch's father led the family to pulpits in such far-flung places as Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia - her...
Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band with his schoolmates Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy...
Marcio Local stands at the crossroads of two great traditions in modern Brazilian music, with one foot in samba, the heavily percussive Afro-Brazilian dance music that took its modern form in the early twentieth century, and the other in soul, the...
Nickodemus was born in the Bronx and raised in Queens and Long Island. He started DJ'ing at a very young age when his brother gave him his first Gemini turntables. Soon after came his first DJ gigs where he was playing hip-hop and reggae with a...
El Michels Affair was started in early 2001 by Leon Michels, who, at the time was recording steadily for underground, New York based funk label, Soul Fire. Teaming up with his former band mate from the Mighty Imperials, Nick Movshon, the two began...
With Noisettes, it's always best to expect the unexpected. Two years on from a debut album awash with punk spirit and scorching blues-rock, the London trio return with Wild Young Hearts, a set of sleek pop songs steeped in soul, dizzy on...
New Def Jam recording artist Chrisette Michele, whose soulful, jazz-influenced debut album I AM will be released June 19th, has been tapped as opening act on the upcoming North American tour with platinum Grammy nominated Atlantic Records...
A they, not a he, consisting of young friends D.A. Wallach and Max Drummey, Chester French seeks to prove that pop music can be at once challenging and accessible. And with the bracing, involving and always-surprising set of pop-art songs on their...
Rowdy Records/Capitol Records
Novel. It's a fittingly double-edged moniker, for a man whose 'pen game' is much sharper than any sword. Indeed, Alonzo "Novel" Stevenson is a bit of a paradox. His forthcoming debut on Capitol Records, The Audiobiography... is a study in creative...
U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar) and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).
The band formed in 1976 when the members...
Started in September 1999 by Robert Luis (A&R) and Paul Jonas (Label Manager), Tru Thoughts is an independent record label based in Brighton, England. Robert and Paul founded the label on the back of their highly respected Brighton club nights...
"Take a little trip to Baltimore," Rye Rye demands on "Hardcore Girls," the ultra-energetic single from her first MySpace Music CD release Go Pop Bang!, a beat-packed rap attack so relentless, it's a head-banging guarantee that Rye Rye...
For singer-songwriter Joy Jones, a musical soundtrack has been present throughout her life journey - she "can't imagine life without music and colour". As a kid, Joy was exposed to an array of different styles of music ranging from gospel, soca,...
Gedion Soldiers/Keynote Records
Born in Brooklyn's tough Bushwick neighborhood, Mojo Morgan was raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, and spent his summer vacations back in New York's hippest outer borough, where he returned after high school. Although he grew up in...
Born in Vancouver, BC and raised between South Africa and Canada's West Coast, Zaki spent her life moving between two worlds and there was a constant cultural diversity blending her world together. Raised by South African father and...
STAX
When a lady has thrived at the epicenter of a musical movement that some initially claimed was not her birthright, and that lady has steadfastly held that legacy down strong for 30 phenomenal years, acknowledgment, respect and...
Scotty Barnhart is an internationally acclaimed Jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, educator, and author in his seventeenth year as a featured soloist with the legendary Count Basie Orchestra. A two-time Grammy Award winner with the Basie...
In a clear, alluring voice that pulls you into the driving beat, Reni Lane sings,“There's a time, there's a place for us…” It is a fitting beginning to her debut album, and a strong step into the ring by a heavyweight pop contender, a...
Their very name, "Ancient Astronauts," implies a mash-up of the distant past and the far future; traits exemplified in their melding of old school hip hop, funk, and dub reggae with forward-thinking flair and production technique. The Ancient...
Scott Hardkiss has been opening heads & hearts and making booties shake since his early days organizing and DJing some of the first raves and electronic multi-media dance events across the country in the early 90's. He was at the forefront of...
