Bands such as Strokes and Libertines had just become world-famous and created an unexpected demand for teen-age rascal rock. Mando Diao's breakthrough came immediately. Debut EP Motown Blood celebrated. The band was invited to play at Kalasturnen with Thåström and Kent. In interviews, Gus...
“a thoughtful, socially conscious album” and “arguably [Motown’s] grandest artistic statement.” The height of Motown’s popularity was declining and by 1988, Gordon sold Motown Records to MCA Records, who sold it to Polygram Records, who sold it to Universal Records. It was the end of...
What Happened To (feat. Kevin Ross) All Day (feat. Lil Yachty & PnB Rock) Scream (feat. Chris Brown & Joelle James) Saturday Night (feat. Clinton Sparks & Joey Bandz) Sunday Morning (feat. Nick Jonas) What Now (feat. BJ the Chicago Kid, Wale & Chaz French) Love O'Clock (feat....
And in a business where making and keeping contacts is all-important, it shows why the PR man has been such a success.A quick rattle-through of some of the clients he has worked with over the years ( The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Motown Records ( reads like a Who's Who...
To Goich-Andreadis, Joy's win is significant because it shows that she's being noticed by a wide audience far afield from the jazz community — including that of such esteem as the pre-GRAMMYs MusiCares Persons Of The Year event, which honored Motown titansBerry GordyandSmokey R...
A few years later, the bond between Kelly and Sparkle began to strain. After creative differences over the direction of her new project, Sparkle cut ties with Kelly’s Rockland label and signed with Motown Records. In 2000, she dropped her sophomore setTold You So. ...
Motown Records packaged Joyce Tolbert, DeMonica Santiago and Shireen Crutchfield as new-age Supremes, finally allowing a female group to add their voices to the New Jack phenomenon. Their debut,All for Your Love, dropped in 1989, featuring an impossibly angelic album cover. ...
But no organization like the CMA existed to demonstrate or mobilize that message. So in 1978, Gamble started the Black Music Association, quickly building a network of high-level supporters including Stevie Wonder, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, and Rev. Jesse Jackson. Trending Now IAN SWEET...
Job: President of Motown Records At 35: Became one of only women to head a record label Signed: Usher and Justin Bieber to Universal When I was 14, there was a woman [Shanti Das] who came and spoke at my career-planning class. She worked at LaFace Records, L.A. Reid and Babyface’...
Denny Cordell who had produced Joe’s records and organized his Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour; a red-bearded comrade named Andrew, the A&R man for Motown’s “white” label, Rare Earth; and a reporter from the British trade paper, Melody Maker, who had flown over to chronicle the latest...