It has been announced that Prince will be playing in Australia and New Zealand later this month. His Piano and a Microphone tour continues and will be joining those two areas as a part of it. This isn’t the first time he has surprised us all with such soon pop-up tour dates. He did this […]
Another one of our national music treasures has gone to the heavens. Earth, Wind & Fire’s co-founder, Maurice White, has lost his battle with Parkinson’s disease, dying peacefully at his home in Los Angeles. In 1969, windy city musicians Maurice White, Al McKay, Andrew Woolfolk, Philip Bailey, Verdine White and Larry Dunn formed the Salty […]
This week’s Mediabase chart for Urrban Adult Contemporary music is out and while we don’t have a new number one artist/song, we do have a new artist to the top 10 (After 7). We also have a brand new top five, with two ladies making a surge to the top (Adele and Janet Jackson). There […]
The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards are coming in just over a month and they have recently announced their nominations for the show. Many movies and television shows are nominated, but we’re going to focus here on one singer battle in particular: Drake against The Weeknd. As the award show’s name suggests, the fans get to […]
February is a big month for award shows with the Grammys and Oscars both occurring during the shortest month of the year. With these events occurring, we’ll be seeing many big performances on the biggest of stages. One entertainer who will be on this grand stage will be the Weeknd. He’s had plenty of recent […]
The upcoming Kanye West album was announced to release on Feb. 11 and it certainly looks like Kirk Franklin will be a part of it. Kanye has been on Twitter calling his album, “Waves,” a “gospel album,” and if there was a gospel singer to throw on the album than it certainly should be Franklin. […]
On February 15, you don’t have to be in the United States to be able to watch the 2016 Grammys. In fact, you can be all the way in China and watch the award show. You’ll be able to do this because of LeMusic, the live-streaming service of LeEco. LeEco has been very progressive with […]
Drake’s upcoming album, “Views From the 6,” will be released in April of this year. Amazingly, the title of the album has been in place for over a year, as it was announced as the title in 2014. This will be his fourth album of his career. He premiered “Summer Sixteen” off the album just […]
The biggest show of the year is arguably the half-time performance of the big NFL game each and every year and Janet Jackson has one of the biggest and most talked about shows in its existence. In what seemed like your typical half-time show, Janet went from singing one song to being joined by Justin […]
Adele’s “Hello” has been a monster hit for her, finding itself on the charts of basically every musical genre it feels like including Urban AC. In fact, it finds itself at number four this week just behind Tyrese, The Weeknd, and Kirk Franklin. A rapper recently freestyled a quite interesting version of the song that […]