Complex Feature: Nas Interview
You can check out the Nas Complex Magazine interview here. His “Untitled” will be dropping next tuesday.
Apple App Store Open for Business
via. http://ctothejl.com/
for all yall itouch and iphone enthusiasts
With the 3G iPhone releasing tomorrow, Apple has went ahead and launched the Apple App Store. There are tons of apps for free from AIM, to Twitteriffic, Google Mobile and the Apple Remote control application. Games are up as well, including Sega’s Super Monkey Ball and Bomberman Touch. Already users can start downloading their programs but you can’t do anything with them until you get the 2.0 firmware (or an iPhone 3G). Check out the store through iTunes at this link here.
Shad K Nominated for Polaris Music Prize
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for all yall who don’t know, Shad K is nominated for the Polaris Music Prize for his album The Old Prince. Shout outs the boy, we’re trying to get him on the say, so stay tuned. In the meantime here’s more info about this.
Vancouver psych-rockers Black Mountain and rapper Shad — who is currently studying at Simon Fraser University — are among the 10 nominees for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.
The shortlist for the $20,000 award, announced Monday, also includes Winnipeg rockers the Weakerthans, Montreal’s Plants and Animals and Charlottetown’s Two Hours Traffic.
The award, which is now in its third year, is given to the year’s best Canadian album, based on artistic integrity, without regard to musical genre or sales history.
Black Mountain’s second album, In the Future, has been shortlisted for a Polaris Music Prize.
Black Mountain, a five-member rock outfit from East Vancouver, is nominated for their second full-length album, In the Future. Shad — who calls London, Ont., home, but has been living in Vancouver while he works on a master’s degree — is nominated for his second album, The Old Prince.
The Weakerthans got the nod for their latest album, Reunion Tour, while Plants and Animals are nominated for their first full-length effort, Parc Avenue.
Another Montreal indie act, Stars, is also in the running (In Our Bedroom After The War) along with experimental Toronto band Holy F**k (LP) and electronica musician Caribou from Dundas, Ont. (Andorra).
Ottawa’s alt-country darling Kathleen Edwards (Asking for Flowers) and London, Ont.-based singer-songwriter Basia Bulat (Oh, My Darling) also made the cut.
The first Polaris Prize was awarded in 2006 to Toronto’s Final Fantasy. Last year’s prize went to Montreal’s Patrick Watson.
A jury of 178 music journalists, broadcasters and bloggers from across Canada submitted their top-five picks for Canadian album and their choices were narrowed down to a long list of 40 in June.
The winner will be chosen from the shortlist by a selected jury of 11 music critics and announced at a gala concert event in Toronto on Sept. 29.
The Polaris Music Prize was founded by Steve Jordan, a former A&R executive with Warner Music Canada and True North Records.
Chester French
Chester French performed an acoustic set at The Box in New York over the weekend.
via pharrells blog
Terminated
via http://nahright.com
For the record, Curtis is the one who likes to make every album release about sales rather than good music, and so rather than talk about how good/bad T.O.S. is, we’re gonna talk about how little it sold.
Billboard put’s the Unit’s first week number at 102,000, which actually isn’t bad if your name isn’t Curtis.
To put that in perspective, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III, which has been in stores for four weeks, moved 156,000. That’s 54K more than the Unit afterthe first week hype for those of you keeping score at home.
No doubt the same Unit stans who would have spent the day counting Boo Boo’s money had he sold a millie this week, will show up shortly to tell me how I’m “hating” or explaining that Curtis did his real #’s overseas or some such nonsense.
And I mean, it’s whatever. The fact is, I don’t hate the Unit or their music. I enjoyed the shit out of that Curtis and Mr. Cee mixtape, and Return of the Bodysnatchers stayed in the whip for a good two weeks.
What I hate is this shit, and this. This too. All that extra shit is corny and if your true fans had any sense, they’d be insulted by those antics.
