DJ Scream: Inside the DJ Booth
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If there’s 1 issue that can be said about the Maybach Music Group, each member is solidly self-assured, such as their in-house DJ Scream, and with good cause. The native of Decatur, Ga., has been rocking turntables because his youth. In three months, he discovered how to spin using three records from Nas, Outkast and Wu-Tang Clan.
“I just had an infatuation with generating men and women move and dance and actually react to what I was performing,” he tells The BoomBox. “It was not in my character to be a rapper. I did not actually have an interest in getting a rapper, so I just kinda gravitated in the direction of becoming a DJ.”
He began functioning proper away, spinning at home parties and making mixtapes before he was even outdated enough to drive.
By the time Scream got to Tuskegee University, he was currently prepped in how to further his profession. He was producing income from his mixtapes and house parties whilst there, but the objective was never ever exclusively about acquiring money. Scream was interested in the various avenues he could take while doing what he loved, so he moved into college radio. His profession has been anchored by three aspects: mixtapes, parties and radio. He’d mastered every prior to even garnering national consideration.
Immediately after school, Scream and a companion started their entertainment company, HoodRich, with the intention of generating it a bona fide brand. He also continued hosting mixtapes and quickly grew to become the go-to DJ for up-and-coming artists out of the south. Mixtapes ended up being his calling card, lifting him to the following degree.
Cheryl Cole on Lana Del Rey-penned track: ‘I’m in love with her’
Cheryl Cole has revealed that she “fell in love” with Lana Del Rey after hearing ‘Video Games’.
The singer is recording a track written by the US artist for her forthcoming album A Million Lights, and said that she noticed her before she became an international star.
“I noticed Lana about a year ago,” Cheryl told Capital FM. “I was hearing these songs that were really fresh to my ear and amazing and I asked the guy who she was and he said, ‘Watch out for her, it’s a girl called Lana Del Rey’.”
Speaking about the Del Rey-penned track, Cheryl explained: “It all happened really organically just like that. And then ‘Video Games’ came out and I fell in love with her as an artist as well, so yeah, she’s super talented.”
Cheryl will release ‘Call My Name’ as the lead single from her new album on June 10. The track was written and produced by Calvin Harris.
Review: Elvis Costello’s spontaneous ‘Spinning Songbook’
Hand it to Elvis Costello: With his delightfully zany “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” conceit, the indefatigable British singer and songwriter has produced a musical game display in which he not only gets to host but also cheat, and the audience often hopes he’ll do so.
On Tuesday, as he rolled the Spinning Songbook back into the Wiltern, wrapping up the Revolver Tour that had been at the exact same venue eleven months ago, Costello once more brought audience members up to the stage all through the two hour and twenty minute show to spin the large wheel.
The spinning wheel is a gadget he first introduced in 1986, and also used at a Wiltern show that year. On that wheel are 40 slots, primarily with names of songs, but with a handful of wild-card entries this kind of as “Cash,” which permitted him to play a Johnny Cash tune of his selecting (“Cry, Cry, Cry”), and also the word “Happy,” which unleashed a handful of songs from his 1979 album “Get Happy” when it surfaced on another fan’s spin. (Nobody ever got the wheel to stop in the slot labeled “Imperial Chocolate,” which presumably would have led to a set from the “Imperial Bedroom” and “Blood & Chocolate” albums.)
There were a couple of instances, nonetheless, when Costello slyly tipped the wheel immediately after it stopped moving, bumping it forward or back to serve up a diverse song. For instance, towards the end of the evening, a woman who mentioned her name was Chelsea gave it a spin, and Costello assisted nudge it toward the “Chelsea” slot that naturally opened the door for him and the Imposters to rip into 1978’s “I Really don’t Want to Go to Chelsea.”
Coroner: Whitney Houston death an accidental drowning, cocaine in her system
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Whitney Houston died from drowning in a hotel bathtub, but coroner’s officials mentioned Thursday that heart condition and chronic cocaine use had been contributing variables to the singer’s death.
The release of autopsy findings Thursday ends weeks of speculation about what killed the Grammy-winning singer on Feb. eleven on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her area at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and her death has been ruled as accidental. A number of bottles of prescription drugs were identified in her hotel room, but coroner’s officials stated they weren’t in excessive quantities.
Beverly Hills police said in a statement there was no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with Houston’s death.
Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey says cocaine and its metabolites were identified in Houston’s system, and it was listed as a contributing aspect in her death. He says the outcomes indicated Houston was a persistent cocaine user.
CoS at SXSW: Jack White, The Shins, South by South Mess, The Drums…
Welcome to our report on South By Southwest from Austin, TX, where sleep is nominal and foot pain is exponential. We’re giving you the run on bands we really enjoyed every day this week, so check out our blurbs and pictures below for coverage of Friday at SXSW, including a review of Jack White’s much talked about performance.
We Listen For You Acoustic Showcase – 10:30 a.m. @ Diverse Arts lot (Bro Stephens, Conveyer, Arms, Henry Clay People, Dent May, Miracles of Modern Science, and Kevin Barnes)
Me personally? I don’t really like hearing bands at a club at 1:30 in the afternoon. If there were be a rule against playing early afternoon sets, all bands’ moods would increase by 100%. So, 10:30 a.m. is obviously an absolute nightmare, but under a overcast sky with a cool breeze in a quiet lot away from the din of downtown, seven bands played seven acoustic sets for about 60 or so people and it was — and this is one of the highest compliments in the context of SXSW — worth it.
Conveyor // Photo by Jeremy D. Larson
Justin Bieber Gives Singer Carly Rae Jepsen a Boost
By Melody Lau
March twelve, 2012 five:05 PM ET
Carly Rae Jepsen visits MuchMusic Headquarters in Toronto, Canada.
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When Justin Bieber was in his native Stratford, Ontario for the holidays final December, one particular song on the radio caught his ear: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Get in touch with Me Maybe,” a sugary dance-pop tune (think Taylor Swift meets Robyn) about hoping for a contact back from a crush. After hearing the song numerous instances, Bieber tweeted, “Contact me maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen is possibly the catchiest song I’ve ever heard lol.” A Twitter endorsement by any notable music star can go a lengthy way, but in the in the situation of the world’s most swooned-more than 18-year-old, it piqued the interest of 18 million-plus followers – and Bieber’s own manager, Scooter Braun.
“He’s in no way jumped out and promoted an artist like this just before,” Braun says. “He sends me different YouTube videos of unsigned artists that he’d like to function with, but never somebody who currently had a song out and is on the radio.”
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From Run-DMC to U2, the durability of the Monkees & Davy Jones
Television was the priority, but the Monkees still made a lasting impression on pop music. The band’s string of hits between 1966 and 1968 may have initially cashed in on Beatlemania, but the songs have long transcended novelty status, no doubt due in part to the fact that the Monkees’ albums drew from expert pop craftsmen such as Carole King, Neil Diamond and the songwriting duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart.
With the news today that Monkees frontman Davy Jones had died, Pop & Hiss takes a look at the band’s enduring influence on the generations that followed.
“The Monkees,” a TV series heavily influenced by the whimsical nature of the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night,” first aired in September 1966, and the music from those shows soon crossed over to the pop charts. The members of the Monkees long fought to correct the perception that they were little more than puppets, though their first few singles featured little more than the group’s voices over other artists’ songs and instrumentation. Those early hits included the Boyce & Hart cut “Last Train to Clarksville” and Diamond’s “I’m a Believer.”
The Monkees, which also featured Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith (who was considered the serious musician of the group) and Micky Dolenz, saw its show declining in popularity by early 1968. Yet during that short run, the Monkees had toured with Jimi Hendrix and put one of the first-ever uses of the Moog synthesizer on record with the song “Daily Nightly.”
PHOTOS: Davy Jones: Dec, 30, 1945-Feb. 29, 2012