photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Willie Nelson & fan @ Wellmont Theater, Montclair, NJ Willie Nelson, who recently collaborated with Snoop Dogg and got a statue of his likeness unveiled in Austin on 4/20, came to NJ last week for...

If you were wondering why Rihanna wasn’t in attendance at Sunday night’s 2012 Billboard Music Awards to receive her statue for Best Streaming Artist, it’s because the Battleship leading lady was across the pond “making history”. The pop star tweeted to her loyal Navy, “#RihannaNAVi made historih tonight as the first person to Watch The Throne ... More »

Venture capitalist real estate broker (for that read repossessor of people's homes perhaps) to electro-pop in one easy leap. You have to give Gambit the credit for doing what he always wanted to do. One thing is for sure, if music careers were built on dedication and commitment then Gambit would be a sure fire success. His debut album, Take off and Landing  betrays none of the glitches which one might expect to find in a debut recording. Now, if you thought that this was going to be pure electro-pop then you would be mistaken. "I'm Sorry" should ...

Mother's Day was last weekend but   Chris Brown  is still showing love to his mom, Joyce. Breezy instagram-ed a photo and proved his mother is the number 1 lady in his life with the caption "Mommas boy!" PHOTOS: Chris Brown Gets Cake-Faced For Karrueche's Birthday And Mama Joyce clearly loves her son right back, fully tatted sleeves and all. CB also shared some pics of himself with a bike and posing on top of statue. He has definitely been having a lot of fun these days. We wonder what Momma Joyce thinks of her son's girlfriend  Karrueche ...

Without getting all sentimental, we wanted to celebrate Mother's Day 2012 in the best way we know how - to celebrate the Women in Contemporary Music that drive us crazy, that go wild, that make us appreciate Women and the craft of music just a little more. This is far from an complete list. Mothers or not - these ladies are responsible for making our hearts flit and sing - making life better through music. Beth Ditto of Gossip Editor & Writer Nick Parker selected Beth Ditto . "Rock and roll rebellion is about difference, and there are very few women in music who ...

Pop and indie collide in this straightforward but wonderful single from the Australian alt-rock fixtures Australian rock music: it's not got the best of reputations, has it? Quite right too, you might conclude, with more famous recent exports such as retro-fetishist goons Jet and Wolfmother. But I still have a soft spot for You Am I, the awfully named trio-turned-quartet who've been Australian indie fixtures for almost two decades, despite barely troubling the attentions of fans, let alone charts, elsewhere. I first encountered them while living for a time in Sydney in the 90s, a time when the ...

Here at the Music Ninja, we shoot music back and forth all day. The thing you don’t know is, we all love each other here. It’s like one big happy, music sharin’ family. When I originally sent the Editor in Chief this track, he had one reply. “If we had a man-love song, this would be it” So, unbeknownst to the owner/editor in chief, I wrote this post as such. Blas I love you. Here’s our song, you handsome devil. … →

Young Scots duo Clouds provide a meaty and valuable addition to the ClashMusic DJ mix this week, with an hour of tough techno, gritty electro and acid-lashed discordant electronica. Displaying a musical knowledge and proficiency far beyond their years (and previously being flagged up as an act to watch in our Electric Selection), Clouds – Calum Macleod and Liam Robertson – excel in creating uncompromising, glitchy, techy electro, guaranteed to melt minds and bleed noses. Their talents quickly picked up the attention of one Tiga, who signed them to his Turbo Recordings label in 2010. Several artists from Turbo make an appearance ...

Those who have read my blog will know that I am always keen to highlight female pianists especially those of international statue. So I was really looking forward to hearing Chinese concert pianist Yuja Wang’s recital as part of the International Piano Series at the South Bank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Wang has already attained [...]

aphotic \ey-FOH-tik\, adjective: Lightless; dark. Coined in the early 1900s, aphotic comes from the Greek word photic meaning "light," as in the word photo, and the prefix a- meaning "not." Splenda Daddy A man who strives to be a Sugar Daddy but just doesn't have the funds to pull it off. She was all excited that she had finally landed a Sugar Daddy until he rolled up in his Accord. It was then she realized she had landed a Splenda Daddy, instead. Trivia What lies at the feet of the Statue of Liberty? A broken chain, symbolizing Lady Liberty ...

Sweeping through New York City, one pressed suit at a time, Nas the Don leaves no one wondering what it must mean to be a don. Through captivating aerial shots of New York's Queensbridge, Statue of Liberty and various NYC skylines, the rapper makes it all too clear that he's...

Sweeping through New York City, one pressed suit at a time, Nas the Don leaves no one wondering what it must mean to be a don. Through captivating aerial shots of New York's Queensbridge, Statue of Liberty and various NYC skylines, the rapper makes it all too clear that he's...

We didn't get to the Bronx, but Battery Park, yes - on our last full day in New York, passing through on route to the Staten Island Ferry for a sail-by sighting of the Statue of Liberty. So what was New York like? Everything we'd hoped for at twice the scale. An all-absorbing, truly incredible metropolis - a clean, friendly and super-safe city (we were strolling around the back streets at 11 pm, riding the subways and mooching Central Park as dusk turned to dark – and felt perfectly fine and unrattled). Instantly familiar from films, TV (and comics) we were ...

Anæmic-white and hidden in the black waves of her dress, Anja Plaschg condenses down to a voice. A voice uncomfortable and unsettling for all its deep and rounded beauty. A voice, and behind that voice a vortex for all the darkest emotions you pretend you don’t have, and all the darkest emotions you only dream of in nightmares. A vortex that seems to stretch and twist interminably, an endless spiralling chasm in which you find yourself entirely lost, unable to pin her down to an easy emotional typeset, and in which the only sound is the endless reverberation of ...

Artist: Machinedrum Album: Room Released: s Extended Released: 2012 Style: Electronic Format: MP3 320Kbps / FLAC Size: 110+132 Mb CD1: 01 – She Died There 02 – Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real 03 – Sacred Frequency 04 – U Don’t Survive 05 – Come1 06 – Youniverse 07 – GBYE 08 – The Statue 09 – Lay Me Down 10 – Door(s) 11 – Where Did We Go Wrong CD2: 01 [...]