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Teena Marie’s Beautiful Epitaph: Album Review
The late, great Teena Marie was working on an album at the time of her passing. Does “Beautiful” match up to the best work of the soul legend?
The 40th Annual American Music Awards Live Blog
We’re back in the business of live blogging award shows! Check out our blow by blow of this evening’s American Music Awards ceremony.
Hear Here!: Jordan Knight’s “Let’s Go Higher”
If this was 2001 instead of 2011, I would have much higher expectations for a Jordan Knight album. After all, we would have only been two years removed from his debut solo record, in which the former New Kid paired with a future superstar by the name of Robin Thicke and, joined by the production prowess of the legendary Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, made what might still be the best album ever recorded by an ’80s/’90s boy-bander (excluding New […]
This is More My Type of ‘Ye: “Lost in the World”
I don’t think Kanye does frivolous well. His best music, to my ears, either comes from a place of unbridled joy, a place of righteous anger, or a place of reflection. I posted “So Appalled” at the beginning of the week, and I was a bit disappointed with how soulless it sounded. Once artists achieve a certain level of commercial and financial success, I believe their work suffers (most of the time, anyway) because, let’s face it, once the hunger […]
No Fireworks on Dru Hill’s “InDRUpendence Day”
Here’s a question? What happened to the R&B group? Please understand the differentiation between the R&B band (which died out after Mint Condition faded away and Tony Toni Tone broke up in the late Nineties) and the R&B group-four or five guys harmonizing and usually adding some spiffy synchronized choreography to their routines. 15 years ago, you couldn’t shake a stick without bumping into a Shai, Silk, Jodeci or Intro, but now the few groups that are left are in […]
MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3.1: The Do-Over
Me and my buddy Mikey are still trying to work out some kinks related to this podcast we wanna do, but it seemed like each week, we were getting closer and closer to what we had envisioned the MisenPOPic Podcast to be. Then last week happened. Neither one of us was on our “A” game, so we decided to scrap MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3 and go back to the drawing board. Episode 3.1 , thankfully, came out a lot better. We didn’t have […]
"We Are the World 25": What Were They Thinking?
25 years ago, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones created “We Are the World”. This song was written and performed to provide relief to famine-stricken Ethiopians. They assembled a group of 45 artists-most of whom were undeniable legends (Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Paul Simon, Tina Turner…even Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins and Hall & Oates), and people worldwide opened their hearts and wallets to donate to the cause. “We Are the World” became a #1 smash […]