Behind the Glass: v. 2: Top Record Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sir Paul McCartney has a revelation to make - that The Beatles 'weren't that good' when they started out. The rocker told a UK radio station: "We obviously weren't that good. We were formulating it all. You wouldn't have thought we were that great. You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did - Decca turned us down." Luckily good taste prevailed and producer George...
i69 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Singer-actress Mariah Carey has come out in the open about the domestic problems she encountered in her marital life. She says that she had undergone emotional and mental abuse from Tommy Mottola, during her five year marriage life to him. She was married to the music mogul from 1993 to 1998. Carey, ...
Buzz7.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Singer-actress Mariah Carey has come out in the open about the domestic problems she encountered in her marital life. She says that she had undergone emotional and mental abuse from Tommy Mottola, during her five year marriage life to him. She was married to the music mogul from 1993 to 1998. Carey, who is currently doing promotions [...]
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
925. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon (Interscope 2006, Akon) " Wahooo , Yeah-hooo " it seems that that one bellow from Akon combined with a super sugary verse or two from Gwen saved her abortion of a second album from complete and utter failure by the smallest of margins. Allowing Miss Stefani to retained her status as a pop superstar. Damn that hook, it's so bloody catchy but...
Jonk Music (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
"I and Love and You" from the album I and Love and You 2009 iTunes Thanks to Rick Rubin's "YouTube research," North Carolina trio Avett Brothers went from finger-pickers in their Concord, North Carolina hometown to the super-producer's new favorite band. The LP Rubin discovered, Emotionalism , wasn't their debut, though — "It was maybe our eighth or ninth release,"...
Cultural Offering.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Windham Hill was one hell of a record label. A little history from Will Ackerman: Some of the artists - The late Michael Hedges , Alex De Grassi , George Winston .
The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Earlier today, we saw Rihanna on Good Morning America recalling her assault at the hands of Chris Brown, and how difficult it was for her to break the cycle. Asked about Rihanna last night on Larry King Live , Mariah Carey admitted she's faced her own difficult relationships, and that "abuse has several categories." "[I have been abused] Emotionally, mentally," Mariah said in response...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mariah Carey admits that she was emotionally abused during her marriage to Tommy Mottola.
Pink Is The New Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Congratulations are in order for the New York Yankees who won their 27th World Series Championship title against the Philadelphia Phillies last night. Mariah Carey suggests that her ex-husband Tommy Mottola “emotionally abused” her. Taylor Swift plans to mock Kanye West when she hosts Saturday Night Live this weekend. A new man for Adam Lambert already? Levi Johnston is [...]
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Songbird Mariah Carey — who married actor-and-rapper Nick Cannon in 2008 — has spoken out about her personal struggle with emotional abuse and hinted that ex-husband Tommy Mottola was responsible for her ordeal. In 1993, Mariah, now 40, wed the much older music executive who signed her to the music label CBS Records. They separated three [...]
Switched (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Filed under: Audio/Video If Stanley Kubrick and the Beastie Boys ever got together and decided to design an iPod dock, it would probably look a lot like the latest monolithic, instant-party machine to hit the market. Brothers' new ' Wall of Sound ' iPod speaker (sharing the name of Phil Spector's legendary production technique heard on classics like the Crystals' 'Da Doo Ron Ron') is the perfect way...
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
975. Night - Benja And Coki (Independent 2008, Benja & Coki) Poor Benja and Coki, they don't even have an official wikipedia entry so I couldn't confirm the release date, oh well. There in lies the fleeting fame that accompanies UK grime and dub step success, but lets face it this was as big as club bangers come and spawned a million remixes, wikipedia be damned...it's time to drop it like it's...
Where's My Jetpack? (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Another random, throwaway creation made possible by the fun diversion known as Xtranormal . I heard this on the way to work and decided it would sound good as a poem. It doesn't really. Rarely do rock lyrics translate well when spoken aloud, but this little Lego man puts in a nice effort in what Xtranormal calls the "Australian English Male" voice, one of a few accent options. We'll pretend...
WhyFame (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Invited in ‘Larry King Live’’s show, Mariah Carey was asked what she thinks about Rihanna being assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown, this February. “Abuse has several categories”, the singer responded. This answer [ More on WhyFame.com ]
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Mariah Carey has been abused. The ‘Obsessed’ singer, who married actor-and-rapper Nick Cannon in 2008, has spoken out about how she has been affected by the struggle she faced in previous relationships and hinted her ex-husband Tommy Mottola was responsible for her ordeal. She said, “Abuse has several categories. Emotionally, mentally, in other ways. I just think [...]
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