Photos by Joann Gomez, Music Looks Like This Photography (@MLLTPhotos). Interviewby Suley Cruz (@NycSueBee) It seems like Los Angeles, once a hip-hop wasteland, is now flourishing. Everyone from […]
FOCUS: Eliza Doolittle, Interview, Tour Dates
Earlier this year, a label rep for Parlophone in the UK sent me an album to get my opinion. I think he heard about my fascination with UK […]
INTERVIEW: Ryan Leslie
As a music fan, it’s entirely possible to forget every time you noted just how amazing Ryan Leslie is. His excellence is a study not in bombastic pop […]
LIVE: Quotes from the MTVu Woodies Awards Red Carpet, SXSW
I’ve done several awards show red carpets in my time. Not as many as most journalists, but probably more than the average American. There is an orderly disorder […]
Interview: 7 Minutes with Prince Paul
Not too many folks have a resume that reads like a who’s who of hip hop. A member of the original hip hop band…check. Producer for one of […]
INTERVIEW: Preview the mtvU Woodie Awards with Matt And Kim, Lil B The Based God
It’s official. The South by Southwest music festival has emerged from a small gathering of 700 people to an industry force with over 20,000 registered attendees and an […]
INTERVIEW: Nostalgia 77
People think I’m obsessed with the past. I am inspired by the music of the 20th century but I don’t think of my music as revival. Nostalgia 77 […]
INTERVIEW: Dallas Austin at BMI’s How I Wrote That Song, LA
Dallas Austin, photo credit: BMI. “If you’re making a record that sound like what’s hot right now then you’re already a year behind.” BMI’s How I Wrote That […]
INTERVIEW: Diddy-Dirty Money’s Dawn Richard talks “Last Train to Paris”
Riding a mainstream wave into the progressive realm of electronic dance music, Diddy’s Diddy-Dirty Money comprising him, ex-Danity Kane member Dawn Richard and Kalenna Harper created quite the […]
GRAMMY WEEK: Q&A with Grammy Nominee, Carolyn Malachi
Long before the Grammy hype, I first reviewed Carolyn Malachi’s third album, Lions, Fires & Squares on the Couch Sessions in July 2010, shortly after its release. That […]