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Mos Def will release his Downtown debut, “The Ecstatic,” on Feb. 9, Billboard.com can reveal. The first single, “Life in Marvelous Times,” will hit iTunes as an exclusive on Nov. 4. The veteran rapper’s last album, “Tru3 Magic,” barely made a ripple upon its late 2006 release via Geffen and has sold just 93,000 copies [...]
A solo album or the third Velvet Revolver album — or possibly both — are on Slash’s docket for 2009. The guitarist tells Billboard.com that he’s “at the very tail end of the demo phase” for the solo project, which he hopes to start recording early next year. He began coming up with material during [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: “Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay, the endlessly inventive duo that animates Bombay Dub Orchestra, tracked their new album in Mumbai and Chennai in India and London. It was an ambitious undertaking that has yielded an entrancing follow-up to their brilliant 2006 self-titled [...]
The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress and rising music star Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death in the mother’s Chicago home on today (Oct. 24), according to reports. The Chicago Tribune said one of the victims was Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donnerson. The entertainment website TMZ, citing a neighbor, said Hudson’s brother Jason [...]
Chad Kroeger laughs when asked if the phenomenal sales for 2005′s “All the Right Reasons” gave confidence to Nickelback as it set out to make its sixth studio album, “Dark Horse.” “No, because look what we have to try to live up to,” says Kroeger, who co-founded the quartet in 1995 in Alberta, Canada. “There’s [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: “There’s a duality about John Michael Montgomery’s first album in four years and the first on his own label. While single “Forever” has an ’80s rock feel and “Loving and Letting Go” could be a Michael McDonald staple, “What Did I Do” and [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: “Those who find the approach of John Mayer a little too uncomfortably in-your-face would do well to check out this third offering from Brett Dennen, which lopes along on the teddy-bear Californian’s gentle voice and gentler sentiments. Dennen’s 2006 breakthrough, “So Much [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: The Sea & Cake – Car Alarm “The Sea & Cake has dabbled in electronic grooves and Brazilian lilt throughout its seven sleek albums, but the band has never quite let it rip like it does on “Car Alarm” tracks like the title cut and opener [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: “Last year’s infectious “Friend Opportunity” presented Deerhoof in Technicolor, the band distorting pop to create a musical Candyland dotted with explosively vivid experimental landmines. “Offend Maggie” takes a more grounded, monochromatic approach. The addition of second guitarist Ed Rodriguez shifts the focus from synth-manufactured atmospheres [...]
Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: “AC/DC’s move to release this album exclusively through Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club may be untraditional, but the seemingly ageless Australian rock combo mostly employs its same tried-and-true formula on the audio side of the “Black Ice” equation. A number of songs unabashedly reference iconic 1980 [...] |
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