By Brian Bowers As we have mentioned before, the final quarter is always full of big news! New albums, festivals, award show announcements and the list goes on and on. In any case, Prince recently appeared at the Apollo Theater to announce his Welcome 2 America tour that will start this winter. Artists joining him [...]

  Despite the fact that he has vowed to change his ways, the infamous celebrity blogger Perez Hilton will continue to remain a notorious brand and media outlet. This is possible how? Simply being Perez Hilton — aside from the crude humor and ‘celebrity juice NOT from concentrate’ that initially propelled him to stardom, the [...]

By Brian Bowers Back in high school, I vividly  recall  running across a quote once that stated something along the lines of “aside from silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.” It has the ability to reach the deepest parts of us as it moves us, soothes us and says everything that [...]

The newly single Halle Berry opens up to Vogue’s Jonathan Van Meter as she discusses her career and life in LA. If one hadn’t read the tabloids lately, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Oscar-winning actress had thrown in the towel. After all, she has not given a proper interview in three years, nor [...]

The Prince of Brooklyn Talib Kweli will be live in concert at The House of Blues on Saturday, September 4th. For ticket information visit Live Nation.

The blogosphere has been buzzing about Alexander Wang‘s T campaign with Zoe Kravitz all week — and we have the first exclusive image! The sultry black and white ads, costarring model Max Motta, were photographed by Dan Jackson and styled by Alastair McKimm. Read More

By Brian Bowers “Better late than never,” is the age old adage. And finally after reading review, after review of Janelle Monae’s Archandroid, I had to take a listen myself. After hearing her first single from the album, Tightrope, I didn’t really know what to expect. I’ve listened, and what I heard was a beautiful, [...]

42BELOW partnered with Katy Perry for an exclusive listening party of her new album Teenage Dream, which is due out August 24. The event was held at Milk Studios in Hollywood. To keep in step with the album, the room had a fun and festive beach theme, dressed elaborately with real sand, surfboards, a lemonade stand, [...]

Kanye Live has a leak for what is reportedly the first single off of Kanye West’s upcoming 5th album, Good Ass Job. The song is called ‘Power’ and it was apparently produced by Symbolic One and Kanye himself. The song, which is a return to the sped-up samples that first launched Kanye into the big time, heavily [...]

The reviews are still flooding in for “Sex and the City 2″ and guess what? They’re as bad as ever. The film’s Rotten Tomatoes fresh rating is now residing at 12, which is higher than 0, which is where it was a day ago, but still lower than any other major release this year, and [...]