Akon endorsed site’s technology offers to indentify hit music!
Akon has a new website that does triple duty as a social network, digital music store, and most importantly a music analyzer “that can predict if your song has the potential to be a hit.” This statement leaves us...
New York-Tokyo Music Night at Le Royale
RECAP BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO
PHOTOS BY SUNDIATA ACREE
New York-Tokyo Music Night 2 recently took place at Le Royale in the East Village and it was a shindig for the ages. The spacious, upstairs lounge was packed with...
Alumni of THE WIRE gang-up at Club Corio
WORDS BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO
PHOTOS BY BLACK PACINO & SUNDIATA ACREE
Let's recap for a moment. As the final curtain closed on The Wire, Michael became a stick-up artist, Dukie became a fiend, Randy ended up in...
Commercial music: Mariah’s new album comes with ads
The music business may be entering a new heightened level of commercialism not yet seen before. An article in Billboard and Ad Week is reporting that Def Jam will subsidize Mariah Carey’s new album “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel”...
Gladwell, Anderson, Godin, Bad Brains, and The Future of Free
For fans of best selling authors Malcolm Gladwell (“Tipping Point”) and Chris Anderson (“The Long Tail”), what’s one to do when you find that the authors of your favorite books are at odds over the future of “free” (also...
Michael Jackson’s Lesson to Artists
Almost immediately after Michael Jackson’s death his image was positioned on the top of iTunes. His titles then began to repopulate the top spots on the Billboard charts. To most, this wasn’t much of a surprise- after all, he’s...
Must have Music Business Book
Daylle Deanna Schwartz is the author of ten books. Her music titles are among the most respected and recommended for the independent music artist who is working on building a career. Her classic book, “Start and Run Your Own...
Hip Hop Music Industry: Bowling with the Stars at Harlem Lanes
Whoo Kid and Alesha Renee at Harlem Lanes
WORDS BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO
PHOTOS BY E-PILLS
It looks fun, but since I don't rock funky shoes worn by other people (unless they're Prada), I don't bowl. Some folks enjoy...
NYC PREMIERE OF “THE SKY CRAWLERS” by Dirty Angel
IN MY TRAVELS...
(NEW YORK PREMIERE OF THE SKY CRAWLERS, LINCOLN CENTER)
By Khalid Strickland a.k.a. Dirty Angel
All stills from The Sky Crawlers are (c) Stage 6 Films / Production I.G.
THE SAGA CONTINUES...
While getting hammered and pushin’ up on...
Don’t Give Way to Evil- Social Commentary and Documentation through Photos
“Do Not Give Way to Evil” by photographer Lisa Kahane provides an interesting view into a period of Bronx history. She does this through the pictorial documentation of the New York borough during the late 1970s to the 1980s....
