Meet Park Jae Sang, also known as PSY, an underground South Korean hip hop star. This already sounds promising, in either favor. He recently released a single “Gangnam Style,” and the music video packs a cornucopia of genius, with everything that makes Asian Pop awesome. Some delightful treats you can expect include: A breakdancing child Read more ->
Ain’t no party like a Kim Jong Un party because a Kim Jong Un party has pop stars. Supreme Leader and North Korea’s most eligible bachelor, Kim Jong Un may have found love in a hopeless place. No, not with Rihanna but with North Korean pop star Hyon Song Wol, former front woman of the Bochonobo Electronic Read more ->
Nine Inch Nails frontman, Trent Reznor, has created the theme song for the video game ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’ out Nov.13. The Oscar-winning composer for The Social Network is no stranger to video games having worked on Quake and Doom 3 and tells USA Today: “I have been wildly enthused about gaming Read more ->
What do you get when you take a guy from Chicago, add a guy from Philly, bring in a Dutch bass player and top it off with a drummer named Sarab? Harper Blynn. Read more
Brian McKnight, probably best known for his 90′s hit ‘Back at One’, has now resorted to writing and performing jingles….for porn sites. Yup, you read that right. As a thank you to the pornographic sharing site youPORN for making his song “Let Me Show You How Your P*ssy Works” a bonafide internet senation, McKnight wrote Read more ->
Who is Cher Lloyd and why should you know about her? Well, for beginners, she’s a barely legal U.K. pop artist who found her way to fame finishing fourth in the 7th season of The X-Factor. But that didn’t stop Simon Cowell from signing her to Sony sub-record Syco Music. Shortly after Lloyd released “Swagger Read more ->
Listen up. Azealia Banks is an artist you will know, so consider this an education. Coming out of Harlem, New York, Banks is single handedly restoring credibility to the genre of rap, a genre that has been destroyed over the past decade or so. Banks is bringing back a sense of toughness and edge that Read more ->
Check out this trailer for the non-narrative feature film SAMSARA, hitting theaters this August. It’s being labeled a sequel of sorts, to the 1992 “cult” hit BARAKA, a beautiful masterpiece in its own right (and generally speaking, a must-see). SAMSARA looks so stunning, in part, because it was shot on 70mm film. Still don’t have Read more ->
Mayer Hawthorne might be the funkiest guy to come out of Detroit since the Motown sound left the mainstream. And, he’s putting the Motown Sound back on the map. Read more
Trending white rapper? Yup, it’s back in a good way. Although Hoodie Allen lays down verses seamlessly in his trending single No Interruption, I wouldn’t put his music the rap category. Lets call this one Hip Pop. Catchy beats, clever lyrics, sweet verses, and a good hook? I’ll give it more credit than Eminem-ish white Read more ->
