Early HIP-Hop producer & ex-Billboard employee was 81

Early HIP-Hop producer & ex-Billboard employee was 81

JB Moore, an important contributor to some of hip-hop’s earliest hits, died in Manhattan on March 13 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81. Although Moore was not well known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream-Success in the late 1970s and early 1980s when he helped produce and write records for Kurtis Blow with … Read more

Dropkick Murphys & Pogues Top Bill for Seisiún Irish Festival

Dropkick Murphys & Pogues Top Bill for Seisiún Irish Festival

Nearly three decades after the launch of NYC’s Fleadh festival celebrating global Irish culture, two of Fleadh’s founders Joe Killian and Liam Lynch Going again with strengths to premiere Seisiún, an Irish music and cultural collection at Suffolk Downs in Boston. The event 6-7 September will be produced in partnership with Bowery Presents, Lynch and … Read more

RCA Records Teams with China Hip-Hop Collective & More Music Biz Deals

RCA Records Teams with China Hip-Hop Collective & More Music Biz Deals

RCA detects larger ChinaA department of Sony Music Entertainment, signed a strategic partnership with Chinese indie -label and music collective Iris ChengduFounded by Chengdu, China-based producer, DJ and recording artist Andre Grant, alias Harikiri. During his career, Harikiri has worked with artists, including American rapper Jay Park and the Chinese hip-hop group higher brothers. Over … Read more

Morgan Wallen ‘One Thing’ hits 100. Week in Billboard 200 Top 10

Morgan Wallen 'One Thing' hits 100. Week in Billboard 200 Top 10

Morgan Wallen reaches another Billboard Chart Milestone, like his latest studio album, One thing at a timeCollects its 100. Not -rapse week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 -Diagram (dated March 15). It’s his second album to chop at least 100 weeks in the region after his previous studio set, Dangerous: The double … Read more

The release of 1975 ‘Still … on their very best’ Live Album: Stream Now

The release of 1975 'Still ... on their very best' Live Album: Stream Now

Glastonbury-Headliners 1975 has a new live album that is now streaming and is available for pre-ordering vinyl with limited edition. Still … on their very best (Live from AO Arena, Manchester, 17.02.24) Was released without promotion on Friday, March 7, a day after Glastonbury 2025 -The lineup was announced with 1975 in the Friday Night … Read more

Roy Ayers ‘Everybody Loves The Sunshine’ Samples: 21 Songs

Roy Ayers 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' Samples: 21 Songs

While Music World mourns Roy Ayers, the godfather of Neo-Soul and a jazz-funk pioneer who died at the age of 84 on March 4, the hip-hop community will always remember him as one of its brightest inspiration. “Everyone loves the sunshine,” the sustained hit from Roy Ayers Ubiquity’s 1976 album of the same name became … Read more

Playboi Carti teases the upcoming album ‘I Am Music’: ‘Replay Value On 10’

Playboi Carti teases the upcoming album 'I Am Music': 'Replay Value On 10'

It looks like Playboi Carti is finally ready to release its long -awaited third solo album I’m music. The enigmatic Atlanta -Rapper took to his Finsta account @opium_00pium to place a photoshoot carousel with pictures with the caption: “@spotify what we do, let’s get ready to ho ahh nig out.” The streaming service responded to … Read more