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Get Busy Committee on Changing the Face of Hip Hop Forever

Jon Chattman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Linkin Park, Kanye West, R&b, Rap, Apathy, Snoop Dog, Brand Nubian, Throwback, Uzi Does It, Heroin, Scoop Deville, Electro, Overdose, Get Busy Committee, Compliment, The Game, Hip Hop, Society, Old School, Pete Rock & CL, Jay-Z, Google, Alkaholiks, Ryu, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

Lately, rap has been getting a bad rap because there's no true voice for the hip hop community. That changed last week when the Get Busy Committee dropped their new album Uzi Does It.

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Interview: Visionary Entertainer Josh Charles

2morrowknight | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton, Healing Time, Professor Longhair, R&b, Preservation Resource Center, Music, Josh Charles, Twitter, Jazz, Lil Wayne, Dr. John, Facebook, Gregg Rubin, Neville Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Healing Time Foundation, Zydeco, Katrina, Blues, Funk, Rock & Roll, Grammy Award, Gospel, Wynton Marsalis, Motown, Dixieland, Entertainment News
2morrowknight

"When you write a song, you never know how it will evolve," Charles said. "I've been approached by people who are recovering from cancer and they have shared stories with me of how 'Healing Time' has helped them."

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Lady of the Hour: LeToya Luckett Takes on R&B, Love & Self

Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, Destiny's Child, Houston, R&b, Lady Love, LeToya Luckett, Beyoncé, Entertainment News
Marjon Rebecca Carlos

Having already released two singles from Lady Love, "Not Anymore" and "She Ain't Got, "Ms. Luckett is well on her way to leaving her own "thumbprint", as she likes to put it, on R&B music.

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Fan-Funding With Jonah Smith, Plus Chris Bell, Stephen Stills, and Manassas Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Malcolm Burn, Bonnie Raitt, Nash, Sonya Kitchell, Paypal, George Martin, Keith Sykes, Sam Cooke, John Prine, John Hiatt, Otis Redding, The Beatles, Big Star, Sam Nelson, Rufus Thomas, Rick Nelson, Malcolm Holcombe, Buffalo Springfield, Ellis Paul, Little Feat, Stephen Stills, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Irma Thomas, Nancy Bryan, John Freese, Stax Records, The Byrds, Jill Sobule, R&b, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Crosby Stills & Nash, Carrie Rodriquez, Stax, Erin McKeown, Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Jonah Smith, H Is Orange, Ann Peebles, Singer-Songwriter, Entertainment News, Graham, Ricky Nelson, Lowell George, Youtube, Chris Bell, Geoff Emerick, Relix Records, Marvin Gaye, Icewater, Alex Chilton, Relix, Ken Woodley, Manassas, Richard Rosebrough, Bob Hillman, Suzanne Vega, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

While most of his contemporaries have the fantasy of signing the bottom line of a label contract, Jonah Smith has rejected a record company's offer instead.

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The Unknown, Famous Leiber and Stoller

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jailhouse Orck, Stand by Me, Songwriter, Spanish Harlem, Jerry Leiber, On Broadway, Mike Stoller, Songwriting, Rock and Roll, Yakety Yak, Legendary, R&b, Entertainment News
Robert J. Elisberg

Mike Stoller and his writing partner Jerry Leiber are a songwriting team for which the description "legendary" was coined. Even if their names are not familiar to you, you've heard their music.

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HuffPost Review: Maxwell - BLACKsummers'night

Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Motown Records, D'Angelo, Atlantic Records, Houdini, Entertainment News, Sade, Stax Records, Marvin Gaye, R&b, Urban, Review, Huffpost Review, Album Review, Maxwell, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The singer's voice has matured significantly -- along with his haircut and wardrobe; this time out, Maxwell has recast himself as a grown-up with all its musical and lyrical upgrades.

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(Electrik) Red In The Face: Not Your Mom's All-Girl R&B Group

Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Vanity 6, Electrik Red, Prince, The Dream, R&b, Beyonce, Entertainment News
Marjon Rebecca Carlos

The last time I wrote here, I waxed on the subject of Beyoncé's split personality cum business marketing scheme, "Sasha Fierce", a phenomenon which m...

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New Tunes On Monday: Little Walter, Prince, James Taylor, John Wesley Harding, Paul Carrack, and Matthew Barber

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ace, The Drifters, Prince, Dionne Warwick, The Eagles, Squeeze, Scott Dirks, Mike + the Mechanics, Harvard Square, Breaking Dawn, Target, Juno Award, Xtc, Whitesnake, Oklahoma, Folk, Paul Carrack, Tony Glover, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cajun, Philly, Reggae, Traditional, Checker Records, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Stephanie Meyer, Marvin Gayes, Timothy B. Schmit, John Wesley Harding, Sam & Dave, Michael McDonald, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash, Ron Sexsmith, Stan Lewis, Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist, High Fidelity, Billy Davis Jr., Singer-Songwriter, Philly International Records, Hip-O Select, Bill Withers, Entertainment News, Al Green, Aaron Neville, Lawrence Stern, Ray Charles, Pop, Americana, Dobie Gray, Jill Barber, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bria Valente, Broadway, Canada, Grammy, The Kinks, Stax, Motown Records, Livingston Taylor, The Beatles, Matthew Barber, Nick Heyward, Harmonica, Don Henley, Phil Collins, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Little Walter Story, Hear Music, Arthur Crudup, Stax Records, R&b, Motown, Sam Moore, Chess Records, Harry Nilsson, Johnny Nash, Gospel, Bobby Womack, David Gray, Wesley Stace, Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan, Blues, The 5th Dimension, David Seitz, Tom Waits, Juno, Washington Square Park, Grammy Awards, Don McLean, John Wesley Hardin, A Mighty Wind, Roots, Randy Newman, Ward Gaines, Ben E. King, Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor, Rupert Holmes, Bruce Springsteen, Listerine, Nilsson, Atlantis, Misfortune, Rumpelstiltskins, Josh Ritter, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Blues harmonica player and singer Little Walter died over forty years ago, but his influences still can be heard in many blues-rock recordings that employ the instrument.

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It's Showtime!

Judith Ellis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Rock and Roll, Layoffs, R&b, Performance, Tina Turner, Interviews, Ike Turner, Economy, Living News
Judith Ellis

I understand the correlation between an audition and an interview intimately. I always look at both as a performance.

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Suburbs, Europe, Sweden, Natural Disasters, Civil Rights Act, Presidential Election 2008, President Lyndon Johnson, America, First Black President, Black History Month, New Black Panther Party, Change, Change in America, White Flight, Malcolm X, Racism, Jfk, Nigeria, Nation of Islam, Fela Kuti, R&b, Terrorism, Washington D.C., Ethnic Minorities, Black President T-Shirt, Time Magazine, American Dream, Barack Obama, Lauri Lyons, Election, Militancy, Lyndon B. Johnson, The Beatles, Democratic Nomination, Kenya, Million Man March, Minorities, President Obama, Iowa Caucus, Economic Depression, Affirmative Action, Reparations, Busing, Inauguration, Slavery, Justice, African Americans, "I Have a Dream" Speech, Yes We Can, Equality, Zimbabwe, Africa, Black President, War, Black Panther Party, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democracy, United States, Dwayne Rodgers, France, Jim Crow, Corporate America, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Higher Education, Shepard Fairey, President George W. Bush, Robert Kennedy, Post-Racial, Selma Alabama, Michelle Obama, Obama Family, The Movement, Lauren Erickson, March on Washington, Flag International, Video, Politics News
Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Beyond Thunderdome: Tina Turner's Greatest vs. Nikka Costa's Latest

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Australia, Zoolander, Duffy, Ken Russell, Tina Turner, Elizabeth Lea, EMI Records, Robert Palmer, Sarah Palin, Motown Records, Aretha Franklin, Marilyn Monroe, Concord Records, Blondie, The Who, Chaka Khan, Nikka Costa, Irma Thomas, Capitol Records, Tokyo, Jan Brady, Stax Records, Johnny Guitar Watson, R&b, The Brady Bunch, Ike & Tina Turner, Nona Hendryx, Gospel, Mad Max, Mother's Finest, Los Angeles, Ann Peebles, Japan, Don Costa, Virgin Records, Beyond Thunderdome, Mel Gibson, Al Green, Sly Stone, Tommy Hilfiger, El Rey, Pete Townsend, Frank Sinatra, Pop, Joyce Kennedy, Thunderdome, Tommy, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Competing for the title "Best Female Pop-R&B Artist Deserving Your Limited CD Dollars" come two fierce competitors, both with new projects worthy of your consideration.

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