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While David Guetta is preparing for EDC Las Vegas this weekend as a headlining artist, he is also releasing new beats and vids. Nothing seems to stop this French hitmaker from dropping the hottest tracks with some of music’s biggest names.
Guetta’s 5th studio LIP, Nothing But the Beat, is scheduled to arrive August 30. He has enlisted an all-star cast of collaborators on the album, including Akon, Snoop Dogg, Usher, Will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, Timbaland, Sia, and Dev.
The review is in, the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show gets two thumbs up. Tuesday night on CBS was the sexiest place to be. If you saw those Angels then you are probably either binge eating or hiding under your covers today (just kidding!). Viewers were able to see the Vicky Sec models prepare and party backstage as they awaited the cat walk. Viewers were also able to get an inside look at what the models think of one another. The girls discussed who they think is an angel or devil and majority rules, Rosie Whiteley is the naughtiest Angel. The costume changes were so extravagant and fabulous that anyone watching would forget to breathe. Some highlights of the show were the youngest Angel, Chanel Iman, given her first set of wings, Adriana Lima wore a two million dollar Damiani bra, and musical guests included Katy Perry and Akon. If you missed it then you can see it on December 8, 2010 at 8 p.m. on the CW or check it out here, CBS.
Whether it was talking about “tatas” with Shontelle or baseball with Asher Roth, Think Pink Rocks Oct. 9 was a night that Michael Swirsky, 11, will never forget.
Swirsky, who wrote a touching email to win the Think Pink ticket giveaway, was kind enough to bring his sister Jen, who spent the night trying to get the little man to open up.
Shontelle took care of that!
After asking what made the concert in support of breast cancer awareness so special, the R&B star responded in kind, saying that as a woman with “tatas” aka breasts of her own, it was extra vital to support her gender and the cause.
It must be nice to be a famous rapper coming back home to the friendly confines of South Florida.
Carol City native Flo Rida has a busy weekend ahead of him - His birthday celebration Friday night at LIV in South Beach and then the third installment of Think Pink Rocks in Boca Raton with 50 Cent on Saturday in support of breast cancer and awareness.
Before heading off to catch LeBron and the new Heat squad in the team’s preseason opener Tuesday night, Flo took a few minutes to chat it up with Mike Rothman about his monster hit “Club Can’t Handle Me”, his new album Only One, his past working with Kesha and someday wanting to work with the legendary Outkast.
In a phone conversation earlier this morning, SRC Records/Universal CEO Steve Rifkind told Mike Rothman that in addition to Pitbull and Shontelle, that 50 Cent, Nelly and Flo Rida would also be at the third edition of the Think Pink Rocks concert set for 7 p.m. Oct. 9.
Rifkind added that 50 Cent looked in good health and had added back some of the weight he lost earlier this year for a movie role ironically enough about having cancer. More information to come.
For ticket information go to Think Pink Rocks.
The lineup continues to grow and will feature only the best in the music industry at the Think Pink Rocks concert in Boca Raton on 7 p.m. Oct. 9th.
The third installment of the charity event is set to feature recording artists from SRC Records/Universal, including Akon, Asher Roth, Melanie Fiona, Ray J, and Shontelle, along with special guest Pitbull.
Think Pink Rocks is a South Florida organization dedicated to the early detection of breast cancer awareness.
The Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton will be the site for the munificent event and will benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the Boca Raton Community Hospital Women’s Center for Breast Care, and other charities.
Can posh South Beach handle hip-hop and R&B infusions from SRC Records and its kingpin, legendary CEO Steve Rifkind? The former Loud Records mogul thinks Miami is ripe for his imposing lineup of diversified artists and could be the next epicenter of the music world.
Rifkind, the man responsible for breaking in the Wu-Tang Clan, Big Pun and Mobb Deep, continues to impose his will on the industry with current megastars like the ubiquitous Akon and suburbanite rapper Asher Roth.
MR - You are deeply involved with the "Think Pink Rocks" concert here in Boca Raton in October during breast cancer awareness month and once mentioned your father is a breast cancer survivor.
Steve - Yeah my dad is. But it is close to home for a whole bunch of different reasons.
MR - Most people don't associate men with having breast cancer, so is it extra important to bring your father to light?
With 2,700 to 3,500 albums released in the US every year, you would think it would be fairly easy to get an accurate assessment of music trends of that year or years to follow.
Apparently that is not the case. While it's is clear that countless country and pop labels will be scouring the earth to find the next Taylor Swift ‘hybrid' sensation to force feed into the mainstream, it's a bit harder to ascertain what will be in and what will be out in the upcoming years.
Will the resurgence of talk boxes, vocoder's and auto tune mark music's creative peak and will music be resigned to recycle itself over and over again? How has the crippling economy affected the music industry? Will artist be more interested in being needle dropped in TV and film rather than hear the roar of a couple thousand adoring fans? All of these questions, while designed to whip you into a needless frenzy over the future of music, are still legitimate concerns being evaluated by musicians, songwriters and artist every day.
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