Seymour Stein Is Leaving Warner Music and Sire Records, the Label He Launched 51 Years Ago

By |2018-07-26T16:21:49-04:00July 19th, 2018|Classics, Documentary, Entertaiment, International, Interviews, Music News, producer|

The industry giant said he longs for his "indie roots" and will be "back in action again soon." Music industry legend Seymour Stein has announced his departure from Warner Music after 42 years at the label group, saying he's eying a return to his "indie roots." By leaving WMG, Stein also is saying goodbye to Sire Records, [...]

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What is a radio, anyway? And what’s a smart speaker?

By |2018-07-26T16:21:49-04:00July 18th, 2018|Entertaiment, Music, My House Radio, news, Uncategorized|

James CridlandFollow I am a radio futurologist, at https://james.cridland.net - and I run https://podnews.net — the daily podcast news website. May 27 A radio. Or a smart speaker. Or something. I rather like this tweet, from the UK industry group Radiocentre, which does a very good job of explaining radio’s multiplatform nature:      It’s [...]

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Why You’re Hearing More Borrowed Lyrics and Melodies on Pop Radio

By |2018-07-26T16:21:50-04:00July 14th, 2018|Entertaiment, Music, Music News, New York|

Anne-Marie’s “2002,” Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” and more – inside the new wave of pop interpolation     Anne-Marie’s “2002” is the biggest solo release of her career, a multi-week Top Five single in the U.K. built around a simple, effective gimmick: cribbing lyrics from songs that were hits between 1998 [...]

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‘What a star he would be today’: the extraordinary musical legacy of Sylvester

By |2018-07-26T16:21:50-04:00July 10th, 2018|Entertaiment, Gay, House Music, Music News, My House Radio, Uncategorized|

Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’ On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to [...]

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Chicago label Still Music rescues decades of house history from a south-side storage locker

By |2018-07-26T16:21:50-04:00July 7th, 2018|Chicago, Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, DJ, Documentary, Entertaiment, House, House Music, Interviews, producer|

KRIS LORI Jerome Derradji of Still Music inspects a multitrack tape from Record Al’s house-music cache in his Humboldt Park home. For the photo shoot, he made the obviously unpremeditated choice to wear a T-shirt for another one of his labels. Last summer, Chicago DJ and producer Jerome Derradji returned to his native France for the first [...]

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10 Films About Dance Music Culture

By |2018-07-26T16:21:51-04:00July 7th, 2018|Clubs - Nightlife, Documentary, Entertaiment, Interviews, news|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHQhnZVlVE&feature=youtu.be >> Read More https://www.electronicbeats.net/10-films-about-dance-music/?inf_contact_key=6fe1644f777299a25b6d8e265d6ca35d55bd0995c67a30684f0d9f5a61990c21

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Pot arrests will be snuffed out starting in September, Mayor de Blasio announces

By |2018-07-26T16:21:52-04:00June 19th, 2018|Entertaiment, New York, news|

Pot smokers will now get a criminal summons and a fine up to $100. Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that most pot smokers caught puffing in public won’t get arrested starting on Sept. 1. The new policy is expected to cut the number of pot arrests by about 10,000 a year. Last year, there were [...]

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Michael Jackson musical set to hit Broadway in 2020

By |2018-07-26T16:21:52-04:00June 19th, 2018|Announcements, Classics, Entertaiment, Music News, New York|

Michael Jackson performs "Dangerous" during a taping of the American Bandstand's 50th-anniversary show Saturday, April 20, 2002, in Pasadena, Calif. (Kevork Djansezian/AP)   The King of Pop is moonwalking to Broadway. The Michael Jackson Estate and Columbia Live Stage announced Tuesday that they are developing a new jukebox musical inspired by the life [...]

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Maturing Ibiza

By |2018-07-26T16:21:53-04:00June 7th, 2018|Entertaiment, House Music, International, Uncategorized|

The luxurious 'Anything Can Happen Suite' at Ushuaïa Beach Hotel By Johnny Lee In the 2010's, the impact of higher quality hotels, led by Ushuaïa, changed the Ibizan landscape permanently. In this feature, Johnny Lee turns away from clubs and looks at how increasing accommodation standards might impact behavior. Last summer global travel [...]

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How Nightclubs Became Museum Pieces (New York Times)

By |2018-07-26T16:21:55-04:00May 14th, 2018|Classics, Clubs - Nightlife, Entertaiment, House Music, My House Radio, New York|

By Anna Codrea-Rado May 3, 2018 WEIL AM RHEIN, Germany — In May 1985, the Palladium nightclub opened its doors to a Who’s Who of the New York art world. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Larry Rivers were all there to check out the new club billed as a successor to Studio 54, the infamous nightspot that had [...]

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