Ghostface Killah, GZA, Raekwon Plot ‘3 Chambers’ Tour

The 3 Chambers Tour will find the artists each celebrating and filling their sets with songs primarily from one of their classic solo albums: Ghostface Killah’s Ironman, GZA’s Liquid Swords, and Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. “As we start to approach a back to normal environment, which is overdue, I’m overly excited about seeing […]

Dame Dash Prohibited From Selling Jay-Z’s ‘Reasonable Doubt’ as NFT Following Roc-A-Fella Lawsuit

“By attempting such a sale, Dash has converted a corporate asset and has breached his fiduciary duties. According to the complaint, obtained by Rolling Stone, Dash planned to sell an NFT of the Reasonable Doubt copyright at an auction on the platform SuperFarm, which was set to take place June 23rd through 25th. Speaking with […]

Read the Black Music Action Coalition’s ‘Industry Report Card’ on Race in Music

A year ago — in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and a contentious reexamination of race in America — an array of artists, songwriters, managers, producers, lawyers, and other music executives came together to form the Black Music Action Coalition , a nonprofit group dedicated to holding the slow-to-change music business accountable for its […]

Warner Music Scoops Up David Guetta’s Catalog for $100 Million

Universal Music Group, don’t forget, spent $1.7 billion on music rights and advances in 2020, including the $300-million-plus acquisition of Bob Dylan’s song catalog. Adding to this theory is the fact that WMG recently acquired a majority stake in a portfolio of songs by Bruno Mars for an undisclosed sum. Some industry observers believe music like Guetta’s best-known […]

‘Kevin Can F**k Himself’: Annie Murphy Is a Good Wife Turned Bad

They are, like cop shows, one of TV’s most renewable resources, enduring perhaps because viewers see more of themselves than they’d like to admit in one half of those couples or the other. These are the questions at the core of AMC’s strange and sometimes fascinating new experiment Kevin Can F**k Himself. Murphy’s having a […]

Watch Coldplay Perform Stripped Down ‘Higher Power’ on ‘Fallon’

The performance follows this week’s release of the acoustic version of  “Higher Power,” a new single the band originally dropped last month. The song marks the band’s first new music in two years and follows their most recent album, Everyday Life, which arrived in 2019. Coldplay have been fairly active so far this year, including […]

Jay-Z Sues Hip-Hop Photographer Jonathan Mannion Over ‘Reasonable Doubt’-Era Photos

Jay-Z hired Mannion as a photographer in the mid-Nineties, and Mannion snapped “hundreds of photographs” of the rapper, per legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. The suit levels two claims for relief at Mannion, one in violation of a California Civil Code for allegedly “misappropriating and using for commercial purposes Jay-Z’s name, likeness, identity, and […]

My Breakdown of How Data Can Propel the Cannabis Industry

This definition fails to capture the enormous impact as data drives so much of the world we know today and predicts the future we’ll have tomorrow. By crystallizing connections between data points and providing valuable input on processes, data can support your business in several areas, including strategizing, optimizing, identifying problems, planning, and reporting. Like […]

Migos Deliver a Record for a World That’s Ready to Reopen With ‘Culture III’

At first glance, Culture III, the latest 19-track offering from superstar rap group Migos, appears to be another overlong playlist disguised as a studio album, much like their underwhelming 2018 release Culture II. Quavo, the oldest of the three, owns the facilitator position; like a quarterback, he gives each record motion, movement, and keeps the […]

Bruce Springsteen Plots 2022 Tour, Collaborations With John Mellencamp, the Killers

Tickets for the revival of Bruce Springsteen’s Tony Award-winning Broadway show went on sale Thursday, and the singer called into Sirius XM’s E Street Radio to talk about his return to the stage, his 2022 tour plans, and upcoming collaborations with John Mellencamp and the Killers. “I am going to start freshening up the script […]