Photo by Chris Garmon Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re very aware of last weekend’s mega festival in the desert, Coachella. This year seemed to be the year of the special guest appearances. For example, Nas brought out Jay and Puffy, Queen Bey danced around supporting her sister Solange, Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg […]
Pharrell Signs to Columbia, Announces Solo Album
As everyone has been talking ‘best of the year’ as 2013 comes to a close, it’s safe to say few people in music had as much of an impact from January to December than the genius himself, Pharrell Williams. Today, the producer interestingly announced his signing with Columbia Records, along with plans for a solo […]
[Video] Azealia Banks: “ATM Jam”
Azealia Banks’ Pharrel Williams-produced single “ATM Jam” got a video treatment with a colorful affair courtesy of director Rony Alwin. Give it a look for yourself below.
[Sunday Coffee Sipper] Reflecting on the BET Hip Hop Awards
On October 16 in Los Angeles, California Rap music’s elite showed out for the annual BET Hip Hop Awards, commemorating the best of all things hip-hop in the past year. Kendrick Lamar cleaned up, hauling in five awards including best album and lyricist of the year while Jay-Z, Big Sean and the rest of hip-hop’s […]
Aokify America Tour feat. Steve Aoki, Pharrell & more
The folks over at REACT Presents just keep raising the bar. Today, they announced Steve Aoki’s Aokify America Tour with a sort of instructional baking video from Aoki himself. The tour is a Fall monster, with supporting acts Borgore, Wacka Flocka Flame and Pharrell! The tour comes through the UIC Pavilion with the full lineup. […]
[Video] Pharrell Interviews Nardwuar
And the tables have turned. While at SXSW Nardwuar, who now works for Pharrell at I Am Other, got to interview Skateboard P in typical “Doot Doola Doot Doo” fashion. Yet, after his classic catchphrase ended Pharrell took to a microphone of his own and began to interview the human serviette himself. Definitely a classic […]
First Look: Chester French
“The idea here is sort of that the music speaks for itself,” says Max, one half of the Star Trak signed Chester French. “We’d sort of prefer people know the music before they know anything about us. That way they can judge it as music, without biases.” So far, we know this much of Max […]