Celebrating its 40th anniversary year, New Line Cinema is the most successful independent film company in the world. Its mission is to produce innovative, popular and profitable entertainment in the best creative environment. In addition to the production, marketing and distribution of theatrical motion pictures, the fully-integrated studio has divisions devoted to home entertainment, […]
“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” is a joke machine and a nice change from the better but almost uniformly downbeat movies out there this season. A biopic satire, it’s about nothing but its laughs. The songs may be good - well-made pastiches of various musical genres and eras - and John C. Reilly […]
With all of his elaborate possessions - from jewels to cars and homes; his cash money making ventures- from music to videogames to shoes and clothing; Bryan “Birdman aka Baby” Williams is poised to continue shining in everything he does. The New Orleans bred, Miami loving and living, artist slash entrepreneur, has spent over […]
10:05a.m. 20 December 2007 Muph and Plutonic’s recent achievements have helped propel them into the echelons of Aussie hip hop and now this top live group is set to play The J this Friday in an all ages show. With their tight and energetic shows, Muph and Plutonic have toured extensively across Australia. There […]
You don t want to re-create the past. You want to carry a tradition forward. In the 1960s and 70s, Stax was synonymous with gritty, earthy soul music. Its roster included the late Otis Redding, Sam David, Isaac Hayes and Carla Thomas, among others - all singers whose work has a lingering presence in […]
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - Deborah Chesher was culling through her old boxes of negatives one day when a random thought crossed the photographer s mind about how young and alive all of the guitar gods of her youth had been.
But both musicians were gravitating to straight-ahead jazz by the time the younger Frost finished high school. That transformation started when he heard the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Sonny Rollins. In a way, it’s not surprising that Frost would have been attracted to the music of both Chicago-based bands. […]
Born Earl Lavon Freeman on October 2, 1922, on the South Side of Chicago, Von (or “Vonski,” to use his universally known nickname) grew up in a musical household that also gave us his younger brothers George, a well-known Chicago guitarist, and drummer Bruz, who retired from music in the 1960s after a series […]
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Houston rap executive James Prince is suing Viacom, the parent company of Black Entertainment Television, for broadcasting his image with a convicted murderer in commercials for BET’s American Gangster documentary series. The slander lawsuit in Houston federal court alleges that Prince and a Rap-A-Lot 2K Records employee were shown in a photo with Gangster […]