Daily Archives: May 20, 2013

A year on from confirmation of Josh Brolin taking the lead role in the upcoming American remake of Chan-wook Park 2003 critically acclaimed, cult classic South Korean film Oldboy, further details have emerged – with Samuel L. Jackson now set to feature in the Spike Lee directed version of the flick. [...]

Currently taking place in San Bernadino, California is the second day of the annual Rock The Bells festival featuring performance from the likes of Salt-N-Pepa, DJ Quik, Hieroglyphics, Chief Keef, Wiz Khalifa, Nas and many many more. Watch the live stream below. [...]

The soulful Glaswegian beauty that is Emeli Sandé definitely has a reason to smile today as not only did her single “Read All About It (Part 3)” hit the number 3 spot in the UK singles chart, her debut album Our Version Of Events has jumped back into the top slot on the album charts [...]

Roc Nation’s unstoppable pop force and superstar-in-the-making, Rita Ora has topped the UK singles chart for the third time in a row. [...]

Ahead of the release of his fifth solo studio album Chapter V which will be released next week, Petersburg, Virginia born R&B star Trey Songz and his legion of ‘Trey’s Angels’ have been given something to celebrate today as the singer, songwriter and part-time rapper has scored his first top 10 UK singles chart entry. [...]

Kendrick Lamar and his Black Hippy cohorts may be leading the West Coast into a new era (currently in live action at Rock The Bells this weekend), but Warren G looks to resurrect that Californian spirit of old with “Party We Will Throw Now“. [...]

Freshly released is the eagerly anticipated On The House mixtape from the 4 headed lyrical beast known as Slaughterhouse hosted by DJ Drama. [...]

With hip-hop’s arguably biggest festival of the year, Rock The Bells, kicking off yesterday (August 18th), it’s no surprise that the blogosphere is being flooded with footage from San Bernardino, California’s NOS Events Center. Following acts like Common, Black Hippy and J.Cole, Kid Cudi took to the main stage at 10:35pm to bring the opening [...]

Revered lyricist Common headed a strong opening day lineup on the main stage at San Bernardino’s Rock The Bells hip-hop festival yesterday. Following sets from Dom Kennedy, Future, Yelawolf and 2 Chainz, and warming up for Black Hippy, Jadakiss, DMX and Eve, J. Cole and Kid Cudi, the veteran Chicago emcee rocked the house (or [...]

What difference a year makes. Last year, Kendrick Lamar, let alone any of the Black Hippy crew, weren’t even on the bill for Rock The Bells, despite Jay Rock‘s debut album, Follow Me Home, in stores, and K. Dot’s hugely-acclaimed Section.80 project in circulation, but for 2012, the West Coast quartet blessed the main stage [...]