• Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger Rock Drama Headed to HBO: Show Will Highlight Record Biz in 1970s

    Some big names in Hollywood and rock are joining the HBO family soon. Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's music industry show highlighting the business in the 1970s finally received a green light. "The Departed" director will oversee the pilot while "Boardwalk Empire's" Terrence Winter will take the role of showrunner, "Collider" reports. Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano and Andrew "Dice" Clay are all set to star in the untitled series.Bobby Cannavale ("Boardwalk Empire") will play Richie Finestra, a record executive in New York City in the middle of a "drug and sex-fueled music business as punk and disco were breaking out." A press release revealed that Finestra will be facing a big life decision, but no specifics were given.Wilde has been tapped to play Finestra's wife, Devon. Romano will be Finestra's head of promotions Zak Yankovich. The Dice Man will take the role of Frank Rogers, a radio station owner who enjoys cocaine.No word on when production will begin, and the network has yet to set a premiere date. For more details on the show, check out the full press release here.

  • The-Dream Shares New Song "Fruition" From Upcoming Album [LISTEN]

    Earlier this month, R&B singer-songwriter The-Dream debuted his new single "Fruition" the old-fashioned way: through the radio. Now, a radio rip of the single has surfaced online, which you can check out below. The track is a slick piece of R&B driven by some electric piano, drum machine, and electric guitar licks, and sounds like no other mainstream R&B artist currently working right now.

  • One Direction Release NBC Special Teaser 'Little Things' On Heels Of SNL Performance [WATCH]

    British boy band superstars One Direction are gearing up for the TV special airing Tuesday, Dec. 23 on NBC at 8 p.m. and have released another teaser to get Directioners excited about the show. Fittingly titled One Direction: The Special, the TV spot will give fans a behind-the-scenes look into 1D on the road, in the studio and on stage, giving fans a more intimate look at the characters and personalities of their favorite artists. The band posted a clip of them playing the ballad "Little Things" from their 2012 studio album Take Me Home at Orlando's Universal Resort on their Youtube channel as a special teaser to the show.

  • T-Pain Shares CDQ Of Lil Wayne Collab 'Let Me Through' Ahead Of 'Stoicville' Release [LISTEN]

    T-Pain has released the CD Quality version of his new single alongside Lil Wayne titled "Let Me Through." The track was originally premiered on Sway In The Morning in early November, but the "Buy U A Drink" singer has decided to release the full high quality version of the song on soundcloud via his label Nappy Boy Entertainment. T-Pain has been gearing up for the release of his upcoming album Stoicville with a slew of media appearances showing off the fact that he can sing and isn't totally reliant on auto-tune.

  • Azealia Banks Shares Excerpt From Upcoming Novel 'Idle Delilah' On Tumblr [READ]

    Azealia Banks doesn't just make music. The rapper is also working on a novel titled Idle Delilah. The books follows the protagonist Delilah Maisley, the daughter of an African American woman who marries a white slave owner in the South (his name is Luther Luciferian Lynch). The story's title is also the name of a track from Banks' album Broke with Expensive Taste

  • Digital Dreams Festival Announces First 2015 Headliners; Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Pete Tong Included

    The longest night has come and gone and the nights will slowly turn into days in the Northern Hemisphere. With that hopeful thinking in mind, one can look ahead to the summer and festival season that lies ahead for revelers. Toronto's Digital Dreams festival is looking ahead to next summer in a big way announcing three of the headliners who will join the festival at the end of next June over its two-day stint on the Toronto waterfront. Digital Dreams has announced that Armin van Buuren will be headlining the main stage, while Carl Cox will be bringing his friends to Echo Beach with his patented Carl Cox & Friends setup and Pete Tong will takeover the festival with his All Gone Pete Tong show.

  • Big Sean Says 'Detroit Vs. Everybody' Music Video with Eminem Is Happening

    When Eminem, Big Sean and the rest of his Motor City crew dropped "Detroit Vs. Everybody" to promote their "Shady XV" compilation this fall, it sparked some regional pride and even engendered a response from the East. But fans were not necessarily expecting an official music video, especially after Em's viral cypher.Collaborator Big Sean recently spoke with Hip Hop DX about his forthcoming project, and hinted that (1) Shady might be on his new album and (2) there is a video coming for "Everybody.""It's possible," Sean said of the Em collab. "This ['Detroit Vs. Everybody'] was the first collab. I want people to really — we shooting a video for it, too, by the way. Coming up."
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