• Battles Between Talent and Management Rising on The K-Pop Scene: Girls Generation, Block B and BAP Cases Cited

    Not everything is as pretty in the Korean music industry as we might be led to believe. As K-Pop continues to grow in the United States it's easy to forget that the consumer trends in South Korea are similar to those in the United States: record sales have started to dwindle. As entertainment promoters and labels try to find the next way to draw profit, relationships between those organizations and the artists representing them have started to fray, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The story focuses on Jessica Jung's departure from Girls Generation during September but also examines a litany of other established K-Pop acts.

  • Nicki Minaj, Trey Songz to Kick Off 'The Pinkprint' Tour in UK in Spring 2015

    Nicki Minaj will be bringing The Pinkprint on tour in the new year. Following the release of her latest single, "All Things Go," and a slot as the musical guest (and frequent sketch guest) this weekend on Saturday Night Live, today (Dec. 8), Minaj announced her first round of The Pinkprint Tour dates. Beginning March 28, 2015, the "Only" rapper and Trey Songz will tackle the United Kingdom before presumably going around the world.

  • Ludacris Previews John Legend Collab 'In My Life'; Quincy Jones Approves [LISTEN]

    Ludacris is just more than a week away until the release of his upcoming EP "Burning Bridges" and has taken to Instagram to preview some new material from the EP. A long time coming from the Atlanta rapper, Ludacris gets set to drop a new EP ahead of his upcoming album "Ludaversal," slated for release March 31.In a series of six Instagram clips, Christopher Bridges — hence the name Burning Bridges — better known as Ludacris, teases "In My Life" in two different settings. The first is Luda sitting in a room alongside John Legend, playing the instrumental that sounds like a throwback Timbaland beat, before putting Ludacris apparently in the home of Quincy Jones to play the jazz legend a section of "In My Life" that mentions Jones.

  • Drake Plays Surprise DJ Set at Art Basel Miami

    Art Basel week is a week of Art expositions in various forms from the abstract modern to the more traditional, but it is also an opportunity for the rich and famous to party together in Miami. Those who clamor down to the white Miami beaches range from famous pop stars of all types to TV celebrities and everyone in between. Many of them make guest appearances at parties throughout the city and proceed to become the life of the party. Drake made an appearance at the final night of PPP Muzik Mansion three-night bender of parties on the shore and hopped on the decks for a surprise DJ set.

  • Billy Corgan Opening Temporary Tea Shop In Led Zeppelin's 'Physical Graffiti' Building

    Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins are giving fans a chance to pick up their new album, Monuments to an Elegy, one day early. This being Corgan, a simple online ordering setup will not suffice. Instead, he's opted to open a one-day, pop-up music shop in New York to push the album. The shop will be located inside Physical GraffiTea, an NYC tea purveyor that's on the bottom floor of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti building.

  • Are Selena Gomez and Zedd Making Music Together?

    Selena Gomez confirmed earlier in the week that she was in the studio recording the follow-up to her 2014 greatest hits album "For You." The "The Heart Wants What It Wants" singer wrote she would be recording for the next four months, even in hotel rooms, via "Billboard." The former Disney star posted a few more pictures on her Instagram of her in the studio with various producers and songwriters, including German hit producer Zedd.Though the post is not definitive for a collaboration, it shows them meeting in a studio. This could have just been a chance encounter in a Los Angeles studio, but with Selena Gomez recording a new album right now, it would make sense for these two hit makers to create something together.

  • Kip Moore Happy With Delayed Second Album; 2015 Release Coming

    Kip Moore had his sophomore follow-up to 2012's 'Up All Night' finished, but little radio interest in the first two singles — "Young Love" and "Dirt Road" — forced his label to shelve the LP until he could come up with something better. The 34-year-old songwriter has apparently done just that, and expects a "stronger record" to be released in 2015.
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