American Idol favorite Melinda Doolittle is back with the first single “It’s Your Love” off of her debut solo album, Coming Back to You, which hits stores February 3, 2009 continue reading...

As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. But sometimes being patient in the rap game can lead to obscurity. Q, the first artist signed to Tag Records and Island Def Jam, landed one the most exciting new artist deals in recent history thanks to his tireless determination to be at the forefront of the music industry. With the backing of Procter & Gamble (the Fortune 500 consumer goods corporation behind Tag Body Spray) and Island Def Jam, the rapper born Kareem Savage will have a steady stream of marketing dollars for his yet-to-be titled debut album, which is expected out later this year. continue reading...

50 Cent exploded onto the music scene with his blockbuster debut Get Rich Or Die Tryin’.  Now he’s set to deliver his fourth major label album, Before I Self Destruct (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), on December 9, 2008. continue reading...

Not sure about naming a tune after one of the best Beatles tunes of all time, but anyways… continue reading...

The guys of Menudo are keeping busy this summer and taking you along for the ride!  Stay up-to-date with Chris, Carlos, Emmanuel, Monti and José on their Kyte channel where you can watch tons of cool videos of them performing, traveling on the road, and goofing off backstage.  “Lost,” their smash summer single, is doing great at radio across the country and has broken 2,000 digital single sales a week.   continue reading...

The new incarnation of Menudo have officially arrived with their debut music video for “Lost,” the first single off their forthcoming album due out on September 9th.  Carlos, Chris, Emmanuel, José and Monti run wild in style through an action packed hostage rescue mission in Los Angeles.  The pulsating dance beats and urban pop flare of the track lay the perfect groundwork for the chase.  Want to see more?  Check out the behind-the-scenes look of the video.

“Lost” full video: continue reading...

Ernie Halter also has an ongoing cover video series on YouTube.com (http://www.youtube.com/erniehalter), popular with his fans who submit requests on an ongoing basis. It was this, as much as Halter’s penchant for performing covers during his live shows, that prompted him to include three covers on the album: “Just Friends” (Musiq Soulchild), “Pretty Girl” (David Ryan Harris – a song that Halter wishes he had written himself and calls it “the most beautiful song ever”), and “Cyclone” (Baby Bash). Halter explains: “‘Cyclone’ is a hip-hop song, you hear it in clubs, and it’s not the kind of song you’d hear an acoustic songwriter singing. I basically flipped it – added some chords and arrangements that weren’t there, rather than just trying to copy it. There’s no skill in that. Incidentally, I noticed it was getting a lot of traffic on YouTube. One night, I was looking on MySpace and Baby Bash had written me a message there just to tell me he dug it. And I found out later that a radio station in Phoenix had picked up the song and had put it in rotation. People were telling me they heard it on the radio. I just decided have some fun with it.”

For an artist four albums, one dvd, a handful of live records into his career, having had songs placed in several prime time TV shows, (including the critically acclaimed ABC series, Brothers and Sisters and NBC’s Friday Night Lights) and having shared the stage with everyone from *NSYNC to Marc Anthony, Joss Stone to Chris Whitley, you would think Tony Lucca might be a household name by now. Instead, Lucca manages to stroll casually under the radar, patient though persistent and seemingly content with his place in today’s ever-evolving music business. continue reading...