• The Latino Audience and 'Furious 7': Did Romeo Santos Inspire Fans to See Record-Breaking Film?

    Billboard might be stretching things a bit when they suggest that Romeo Santos' 10-second speaking part during Furious 7 had a major impact on Latin American audiences attending the film...but they were certainly on-point in noting the trend. More than 37 percent of the tickets sold to the record-breaking film have been purchased by Latin viewers, compared to 25 percent by Caucasians and 24 percent by African-Americans.

  • Chance the Rapper, Kanye West Pictured Working Together In Studio

    Chance the Rapper, the self-proclaimed "#1 fan" of Kanye West finally teamed up with his idol in the studio after initially meeting him for the first time at Jay Z's Made in America Festival last September. Chance posted a blurry photo of him and Yeezy on Instagram with a poetic caption.

  • Earl Sweatshirt Drops New EP 'Solace': "It's For My Mom" [LISTEN]

    Just a little over a month after releasing his album I Don't Like Sh*t, I Don't Go Outside, Earl Sweatshirt is back with yet another new project. Yesterday, without much prior promotion, the Odd Future emcee dropped a 10-minute, single-stream effort titled Solace on YouTube with the message: "Music from when I hit the bottom and found something," hence the album title.

  • Drake, The Strokes, Alt-J, Wale Headline Landmark Music Festival in Washington D.C.

    Washington D.C., despite being a fertile ground with its regional styles of music like Go-Go, while also influencing punk and hip-hop, has not had many major, multi-day music festivals in the city. This is about to change in September with the inaugural Landmark Music Festival set to take over the National Mall. Headlined by Drake, The Strokes, Wale and Alt-J, the two-day event will feature some of the biggest names in music, while also attempting to raise funds and awareness to restore the nation's most visited park, the National Mall.

  • Madeon Shines as Adventure Tour Touches Down at Webster Hall [REVIEW]

    A historic venue like Webster Hall rarely double books for artists in a single night. You get one shot to impress the crowd and that is it. 20-year-old French DJ, producer Madeon, real name Hugo Pierre Leclercq, is not most artists and on Friday, April 24, the Frenchman was allotted not one, but two sets in front of a packed, adoring New York City crowd. He has been hailed as a wunderkind and the next big thing in dance music since he was 16 years old, winning a Beatport remix for Pendulum's track "The Island." This led to a host of British label execs, including Pete Tons to fly to his parent's home in Nantes, France to woo the youngster. He signed a publishing deal at 16, had a major label deal at 17 and has produced songs for Ellie Goulding, Lady Gaga and Coldplay.

  • New Calvin Harris Biography on Following Path to Stardom Hitting Stores in October

    A lot of ink has been spilled on the rags to riches story of Calvin Harris, real name Adam Richard Wiles, and now a full length biography has been put together on the man who has electrified crowds across the world and crafted some of the biggest radio hits of the past couple years. UK journalist and author Douglas Wright, who according to his biography, has written, co-written or ghosted seven different biographies, has written a new book about Calvin Harris documenting his rise from a low-level employee at a local supermarket in Dumfries, Scotland to one of the wealthiest, most in demand-global artists inside and outside the DJ booth. The book, titled "Calvin Harris: The $100 Million DJ," will be available on October 21, 2015.

  • Joni Mitchell Awake and Responsive Despite Coma Rumors

    After being found unconscious in her Los Angeles home on March 31, Joni Mitchell was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center for what was later diagnosed as a debilitating skin condition-her health update has caused quite a stir while some sources explain that Mitchell is in a coma, while other combat the rumors.
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