Written for Kurrent Music Published January 22nd 2016 Iggy Azalea’s Troubled Azillion I often find myself telling producers that I would like to hear more variations in their music and it’s funny, but the musicians who seem to have that down, can usually be found within the hip hop genre. …
Published February 3rd 2016 Kanye West will release his new album “Waves” on February 11th 2016. Fans in NYC can actually be at the premiere of the album, as he will debut it at a special event held at the Madison Square Garden. Tickets are on sale on his website. …
Written for Kurrent Music Published January 15th 2016 For my own website, I occasionally write about design news and I have, so far once, written about Robert van Winkle. Perhaps you still know him better as Vanilla Ice. Even if you have missed the hype around the song, I bet …
Published January 27th 2016 As a songwriter and producer, you have to be versatile in these times, and no one has showed more variety in his work than Wyclef Jean. In the 90s, after doing full blown Hip Hop with The Fugees, Wyclef explored R&B and, in collaboration with Avicii, …
Published January 1st 2016 On New Year’s Eve Kanye West dropped his new track “Facts”, in a clean and explicit version, on his Soundcloud account. Other than a few collaborations last year, he hadn’t released any solo music for a while, so this has been long awaited by his fans. He …
Published December 29th 2015 This year, February 2015 to be exact, TLC raised a massive $430,000 from fans to record one more album. A few months after, De La Soul also raised their budget of over $600,000 for a new album through the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. After that, it’s been …
Published December 28th 2015 While most people were enjoying their Christmas offline, many artists were taking to the Internet to upload new music. The Weeknd uploaded his “Low Life” collaboration with Future to Soundcloud, as well as his own remix of Jeremih’s “Pass Dat” on which he features.
Published December 14th 2015 Just 3 weeks after his previous release, Akon has dropped a new song called “Want Some”. This slow sexual jam with DJ Chose follows up his last up-tempo song, “Stick Around”, a collaboration with Matoma. Even though it was expected that Akon would drop all of his …
Written for Kurrent Music Published December 5th 2015 Lucky enough, it doesn’t happen all that often that a big news story actually makes it to my doorstep, or near enough anyway. For a few months, we, Europeans, have been seeing news reports about small boats transporting too many refugees to …
Published December 2nd 2015 According to various sources, rapper 50 Cent is currently developing a sitcom about a member of his crew. The comedy, “My Friend 50” shows the day-to-day life of Amanda Kramer, who comes up with the idea to join his entourage. The show will feature the occasional …
