In a season of stunning Saturday Night Live bookings like Chris Rock, Prince and Eddie Murphy, the biggest surprise yet was D'Angelo landing a musical guest spot, a performance that wasn't on anyone's radar just two months ago. The soul singer and his backing band the Vanguard hit the SNL stage to play a pair of tracks off their acclaimed Black Messiah.
While D'Angelo had been road-testing his Black Messiah songs in concert in recent years, SNL provided a chance to showcase the tracks to the greater public as well...
While D'Angelo had been road-testing his Black Messiah songs in concert in recent years, SNL provided a chance to showcase the tracks to the greater public as well...
- 2/1/2015
- Rollingstone.com
If there are any filmmakers who’ve worked their way through record stores as much as folks like Quentin Tarantino or even Wes Anderson, it would have to be John Hughes and Allan Moyle. So perhaps it’s no real surprise that on annual Record Store Day, where you can come out and support your local independent record stores on April 21st this year, there will be soundtrack reissues from both filmmakers.
First is Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” which will surely find many record enthusiasts doing some Judd Hirsch-style fist pumping as they pick up their all-white 12-inch vinyl pressing of the album. It’s hard to capture an entire mood of a film with a single soundtrack, especially when that film lingers on a dreary Saturday spent in detention with a few high school students looking to find themselves like in “The Breakfast Club,” but between the seminal...
First is Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club,” which will surely find many record enthusiasts doing some Judd Hirsch-style fist pumping as they pick up their all-white 12-inch vinyl pressing of the album. It’s hard to capture an entire mood of a film with a single soundtrack, especially when that film lingers on a dreary Saturday spent in detention with a few high school students looking to find themselves like in “The Breakfast Club,” but between the seminal...
- 4/6/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
The Original 7ven (formerly The Time) will open the 2011 Soul Train Awards. The Original 7ven, Morris Day, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Monte Moir,Jellybean Johnson and Jerome Benton will open the 2011 Soul Train Awards with an extended performance including their classic hits and their newest single, .#Trendin.on Sunday, November 27 at 9:00pm Et/Pt - Simulcast on Bet and Centric The Original 7ven, the band formerly known as The Time, recently released a new album, Condensate. The first single, .#Trendin,. was the #1 most-added song in the adult urban radio format in its first week out and was called a ..funk-fueled jam that.s right on time.. by USA Today. People magazine called it .funky. and raved...
- 11/27/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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