in the development of hip-hop was brought to the forefront when pioneering Queens rapper Roxanne Shanté received her Lifetime Achievement Award — the only solo female rapper to do so — with a poignant recollection of the dreams she harbored when she was first making a name for herself. ...
Lady Gaga can’t take credit for the notion of art-pop, but she did coin a new phrase, calling the conceptual glue of ARTPOP a "reverse Waholian expedition." Translation: if Andy Warhol transformed mass-produced items like Campbell’s soup into high art, then Gaga wanted to flip the pr...
Who Did He Beat?: Willie Nelson (we've got him in Hawaii), George Jones, Waylon Jennings and many, many more. Notes: No state has produced more pure country talent than Texas. When in doubt, he or she is probably from the Lone Star State. Best Country Singer From Utah: Tanya Tucker...
which she and husband Jay-Z did not attend. So whenJimmy Jamannounced that Beyoncé had won Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Love On Top," he jokingly offered to drop off the GRAMMY along with the awards Jay-Z won at the ceremony. ...
The same year Quality Control launched, Habtemariam — an Atlanta native herself — was named president of Motown, tasked with bringing new life to one of America’s most storied cultural institutions. “Clearly, there was the history, the music, but there was also something about it being ...
I don't think we even really did anything to it from that initial session. He just mixed it really well and we came to the studio. I recorded my vocals and an actual guitar, but for the most part it stayed the same. That was before I had Splice, so on YouTube ...
There's no connection at all. It's just, Almighty So, that's me. It's not just a project that I dropped years ago — it's me. I'm still Almighty So. I might not call myself that all the time, but it's forever me because when I did come out, it's something that I made...
"Something interesting that I've noticed over the years is, it's almost like the crowd never changes, and never grows up," he suggests. "The front row always looks the same as it did in 2001." Pop-punk has seen a strong resurgence in recent years, with artists like Machine Gun...