I don't know about you, but when I hear the word conservatory, I think conservative. (Not one of my favorite words these days, but that's another article...) I think classical music and string quartets, not Rock School and Battle of the Bands. Conservatory conjures up smugness and  >>

When Hurricane Katrina tore across New Orleans submerging 80% of the city in water it took not only lives and houses, it took the city's soul, its heart, its limbs and its appendages - a.k.a. its music. A city, the streets of which were once filled with the soulful sounds of blues and the  >>

Are record labels pan-handling yet? They should be. It's over, people. Done. Finis. Kaput. Yesterday's gangster-ridden corporate record label structure is not sitting with nails in its coffin - it's six feet under with  >>

Alan McGee is cool. My colleague Marlon Ray, and I meet him in the restaurant in The Standard Hotel in Hollywood, wearing his ubiquitous fedora pulled down so low that it covers his eyes. You can barely see that he's wearing shades. He greets us pleasantly and seems almost as eager to do the  >>

In this third and final installment of The Garth Trinidad Interview, the legendary DJ drops on the return of the single, the absence of musical greatness in a Pop culture world of mediocrity, and… why he’d like to interview Britney Spears right now. Cazembe Abena (LA2DAY) – Where do  >>

I see soccer players running in the dark; chasing the dusk. Unadulterated freedom. Running free. Unadulterated freedom. There worries seem far removed from them. I mirror our confines to this article and realize, the musical artists freedom is sickly compared to the freedom of these  >>