| Informing the Hip Hop Community: Interscopes Lyric Committee
About a week or so ago, rapper Young Buck made an appearance on New York's Hot 97's Angie Martinez's show to promote his new album "Buck the World", the first single of which is incredible (I love that record). You know, it was pretty much your typical rap interview except for one revealing exchange in particular. This was when Young Buck spoke of a record addressing Police Brutality that unfortunately did not make the record? It was said in the interview that Interscope Records (home of Dr. Dre's Aftermath, Shady Records; Emenim, G Unit; 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck; The Lox; Jadakiss, Styles and Sheik, amongst others) has an official "Lyrics Committee." Buck stated that it was this Interscope "lyrics committee" (more like committee of ONE person; Jimmy Iovine) that decided it best to leave the police brutality track off of the album.
Brian Walker: Lessons from crises and recovery
As the president and CEO of a 6,500-person company, Brian Walker likens himself to the director of a jazz band. "My job is to get people to understand the theme, to get the tempo going, then stand back and watch them perform. It isn't really about the conductor, but about the individual musicians who make the music beautiful," he explained. Nice imagery for a Milan-based couture line, a luxury automobile maker, even a self-consciously intelli-chic magazine like Vanity Fair. But Walker, 44, helms Herman Miller Inc., the Michigan office furniture company that helped introduce the beige work cubicle in the late '60s. Founded as a home furniture maker that reproduced European styles, Herman Miller soon migrated into designing office furniture known for its functionally elegant design.
GZA, Slint Join Sonic Youth for Pitchfork Fest Kickoff
Pitchfork is pleased to announce the complete lineup for the first night of the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival, going down July 13-15. In collaboration with All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back, we tear open the gates of Chicago's Union Park early this year to welcome three giants-- each performing, in full, one of the albums that helped make them gigantic. We already have Pitchfork's favorite album of the 1980s: Sonic Youth delivering 1988's Daydream Nation from start to finish. Now a pair of 1990s milestones have been added, too: Wu-Tang master lyricist GZA, aka the Genius, will perform his 1995 Shaolin showstopper Liquid Swords-- widely regarded, along with 36 Chambers, as the finest album to emerge from the Wu-Tang's heyday, and one of the greatest rap albums of all time. This also marks the first time ATP/Don't Look Back has presented a hip-hop artist.
Unsettling scores
When he was 12 years old, William Kennedy ushered at the Palace Theater for a performance of "Aida." As a kid, he also performed in choirs and glee clubs and learned to play the banjo, an instrument he still picks up now and then. These days, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Albany author says that an evening with friends isn't complete without some communal singing, mostly of standards like "Happy Days and Lonely Nights," a favorite song of the late gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond. .
6 things to know about Brian Littrell
The last time Brian Littrell was in Birmingham, he was with his fellow Backstreet Boys. Hysteria wouldn't be too strong a word to describe the reaction of fans as the boy band played here. Now, the family man is back, this time as part of Sunday's Glory Revealed Tour at Shades Mountain Baptist Church. It promises to be a more sedate affair. Here are some things to know about Littrell: No, they haven't broken up Kevin Richardson has left the Backstreet Boys, but the group is still together. Littrell, AJ McLean, Nick Carter and Howie Durrough say they'll record and tour again. Not new to the church Littrell says that he has been born-again since he was 8, and the native Kentuckian always knew he would sing Christian music one day.
Bowling For Soup Introduce Their Six Million Dollar Video 'When We ...
NEW YORK, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Jive Recording Artist Bowling For Soup continue to bring their own brand of creative expression with their new video "When We Die," as they cast Lee Majors in a leading role. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070423/NYM048 ) "When We Die," a the current single from their album, The Great Burrito Extortion Case is a departure from the usual happy go lucky videos that fans may have been accustomed too, but in its essence it is still a Bowling For Soup video. The video revolves around the .
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