The ‘Ricky Part 1’ disc gave the teen idol a No. 1 on the Billboard EP chart of 25 November 1957, before he had either a No. 1 single or album.   These days, people stream single tracks before an album is released. Sometimes, when the album is available, they still prefer to stream, or download, one […]

The late “Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” received a special honor Saturday. 126th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Frederick Douglass Boulevards is now “James Brown Way.” It runs behind the legendary Apollo Theater. Brown’s daughter, Deanna Brown, was there as the community honored her father. “Every last person standing here has been […]

There is one interview I remember from my early days as a reporter, and I often recite a line from it because it’s the best answer I’ve ever gotten and ever will get. Naturally, it came from James Brown. It was in 1989, at the dark, wrong end of Brown’s career, when he was in […]

ANDRÉ RIEU Love in Venice Takes Fans On A Romantic Journey  New Album Will Be Released on November 4 DVD and BluRay Available on Nov 11 Classical phenomenon André Rieu will release his latest album – Love in Venice – on November 4, 2014. Brimming with Italian vitality and romance, Love in Venice features a selection of popular tunes performed in Rieu’s […]

HBO will present its newest documentary about the late and great James Brown entitled, “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.”  This film focuses not on who this great musical innovator was but rather on the how he became such a moving force in the music industry. The film starts off with Brown’s early life, […]

KISS’ LOVE GUN ALBUM GETS DELUXE TWO-CD TREATMENT New version of 1977 studio recording contains previously unreleased demos, live tracks, 1977 Gene Simmons interview and liner notes by Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees KISS continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary with the release of a deluxe two-CD version of their […]

Photo by Iain Macmillan ©Yoko Ono JOHN LENNON STUDIO ALBUMS AND COLLECTIONS DEBUT IN HIGH DEFINITION DIGITAL AUDIO, BEGINNING WITH TODAY’S RELEASE OF ‘IMAGINE’ AND ‘ROCK ‘N’ ROLL’   ‘JOHN LENNON SIGNATURE COLLECTION’ TO DEBUT IN HIGH DEFINITION DIGITAL AUDIO ON NOVEMBER 4 Los Angeles – October 7, 2014 – In celebration of John Lennon’s 74th birthday on […]

‘SINATRA: LONDON’ COLLECTS FRANK SINATRA’S ONLY BRITISH STUDIO RECORDINGS AND A TREASURE TROVE OF OTHER U.K. HIGHLIGHTS IN NEW 3-CD/DVD AND DIGITAL COLLECTION TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 9   ‘Sinatra: LONDON’ Contains More Than 50 Unreleased Tracks Order Here: http://smarturl.it/SinatraLondonBox      Los Angeles – September 24, 2014 – For several weeks during the spring of 1962, London’s […]

JAKE STEINFELD ADDS HOTTEST CONTEMPORARY MIXES OF HIT SONGS TO HIS SMASH BODY BY JAKE® FITNESS LINE WITH ANOTHER WINNING PACKAGE FROM UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES  Current Remixes from Enrique Iglesias, Capitol Cities, OneRepublic and The Wanted Highlight Brand-New “Interval-Training Workout” Package, Available August 5 Music is Geared for Low-to-High Intensity Workouts Separated by Rest Intervals, […]

To promote the James Brown biopic that opened Aug. 1, Get on Up, executive producer Peter Afterman called jazz bassist and big-time Godfather of Soul fan Christian McBride to ask if he had any ideas. McBride said he would think about it and a few minutes after hanging up, placed a call to the Hollywood Bowl […]

He couldn’t have known it at the time, but James Brown’s debut recording and first chart hit — made in 1956 with The Famous Flames — is a question that contains its own answer. The lyrics to “Please, Please, Please” speak, pretty obviously, of sexual desire. But Brown’s voice is so hungry that a hundred […]

Check out Get On Up James Brown and discover WHO SAMPLED Mr. Dynamite. Take a deep dive into all the artists (Jay Z, Public Enemy and many more) that James Brown influenced along with discovering where his music is featured in many of the classic hip hop, R&B and rap songs of today. Discover Who […]