Entertainment Base! Fun! Daily! (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Her new album “SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams” hit stores and online retailers today, and Solange Knowles couldn’t be happier. Yesterday (August 25) the “Sandcastle Disco” songstress paid a visit to “The Late Show with David Letterman” as part of her promotional duties, stopping outside the Ed Sullivan theatre to greet fans and sign a [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
SOLANGE CELEBRATES HER ALBUM RELEASE WITH A WEEK JAM PACKED WITH TV, PERFORMANCES AND HOUSTON IN-STORE APPEARANCES HOUSTON, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams, the edgy and eclectic sophomore release from Solange Knowles, is available digitally and in stores nation wide today. She is currently in New York appearing and performing on several national television programs to...
Kevin Nottingham: This Is Hip Hop (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Lamont Dozier: “Shine” From the album Black Bach (1976) Ghostface Killah: “Saturday Nite” From the album Supreme Clientele (2000) Produced by Carlos “6 July” Broady for The Hitmen Pharoahe Monch: “Mayor” From the album Soundbombing II (1999) Produced by Lee Stone Normally these posts are dedicated to the producers and we ask the question “who flipped it better?”. Well, since this is officially [...]...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Solo Star, Solange’s debut, lacked character. Not without a small clutch of memorable songs, much of it was nonetheless generic, containing little to separate it from the average R&B album fronted by an up-and-coming performer. Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, released five years later, is an entirely different affair — fun, silly, slightly eccentric [...]
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
The first Rolling Stones Album titled “The Rolling Stones” was released in the UK in 1964. The US version of this album was released a few months later with a different title; it was called “England’s Newest Hit Makers”. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been the main songwriters for the Stones over the past forty [...]
Music News (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
James Taylor will release an album of covers, mysteriously titled Covers, on September 30th via Hear Music. Taylor will perform renditions of songs that span several decades, including a pair of Leiber-Stoller tunes (”Hound Dog” and “On Broadway”), Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” and even the Dixie Chicks’ version of “Some Days You Gotta Dance.” “An album [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Not only is the talented Solange Knowles making hit songs for herself (her single "I Decided," produced by Pharrell Williams, has been #1 on Billboard's "Hot R&...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
#1 ON BILLBOARD'S "HOT R&B/HIP-HOP SINGLES SALES CHART #1 ON BILLBOARD'S "HOT DANCE SINGLES SALES" CHART #2 ON BILLBOARD'S "HOT SINGLES SALES" CHART SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Solange Knowles' 1st single, "I Decided," off of her forthcoming CD, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams enjoys the #1 spot on both Billboard's "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales" chart and the "Hot Dance Singles...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
Novelist Joyce Carol Oates is 70 today. She published her first story, “In the Old World,” in Mademoiselle magazine (1959) just before her senior year of college, and she published her first book of short stories, By the North Gate, a few years later, in 1963. She has gone on to become one of [...]
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008
•Country singer Billy “Crash” Craddock, 69 •Songwriter Lamont Dozier, 67
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Those inclined to bash the music of the 1970s as silly, escapist nonsense can only do so by ignoring the vitality of soul in the early part of the decade. As late as 1972, old-school soul records were charting regularly and riding high: that summer, “I’ll Take You There” by the Staple Singers hit Number [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
'I DECIDED' MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES TODAY, JUNE 4 NEW ALBUM 'SOL-ANGEL AND THE HADLEY ST. DREAMS' IN STORES AUGUST 26TH SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL, currently on tour to support the August 26th release of her new album, SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dreams, performed with a broken foot on June 1 at the Kansas City, MO "Art Of Love" tour date which also...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of her upcoming CD release, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams (due for release on August 26th on Music World Entertainment/Geffen Records), singer/songwriter/producer and entrepreneur So...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
NEW ALBUM 'SOL-ANGEL AND THE HADLEY ST. DREAMS' IN STORES AUGUST 26TH 'I DECIDED' MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES JUNE 5 SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of her upcoming CD release, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams (due for release on August 26th on Music World Entertainment/Geffen Records), singer/songwriter/producer and entrepreneur Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL hits the road with...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/04/2008
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Talented singer, songwriter, artist, and entrepreneur, Solange Knowles AKA SoL-AngeL, is ready to set the world on fire with a sound that is sure to...
