Thank you to The Latest Maxwell News for telling me to check out this treat of Maxwell discussing Marvin Gaye's music.Wow - how dope is that?ENJOY!imeem icons: Maxwell and Marvin - MP3 Music Streams on IMEEMmaxwell (yes he is acting a real trip here. Lord, HELP HIM!) Picture source: his myspace page from 2 years ago! Marvin Gaye - picture from vibe.com
The latest edition of Britain's Mojo magazine is a salute to the 50th anniversary of Motown Records. Included is a Motown Nuggets CD with 15 great tracks from the label, interviews with Barry Gordy, Martha Reeves and Holland-Dozier-Holland and the selection of the 100 greatest Motown tracks as picked by Iggy Pop, Paul Weller , the Clash and others. The Mojo website also has an exclusive l...
Today, I was on youtube and saw that actor Hill Harper had made a video requesting average joes like us to send a video to him just stating:1. Name as an Average Joe so you say, "Joe" for male and "Joanna/Joanne" for Female2. Location (even if you are outside of the USA and you are moved to join in on this video project PLEASE DO)3. Voting for Barack ObamaThat is it. Simple and to the point. RE...
How better to cushion the blow of those pesky alimony payments than by mopping up royalties from songs about your marriage break-up?Loads have done it: Phil Collins, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan, sundry country music folk, even Eminem. Most famously, Marvin Gaye released Here My Dear, an entire double album of such stuff after a court decreed that most of the cash from his next record should be ha...
You know you had a kick ass career when two separate movies about your life are released back to back. The first movie will simply be called "Marvin", and will be directed by F. Gary Gray. Gary's most successful film is "The Italian Job", but I will forever know him as the mastermind behind the cult classic that is "Friday"."C. Gaby Mitchell (”Blood Diamond”) is aboard to write the script. Gra
Today would have been Marvin Gaye's 70th birthday. Tragically, it was 25 years ago yesterday that Gaye was killed at the hands of his father on the day before his 45th birthday.Gaye's influence on music, even in the intervening quarter century, is undeniable. I Heard It Through the Grapevine was Motown's biggest selling single of the 60's and considered a classic. His 1971 album What's Going...
A recent search has shown that Viacom owned iFilm, a service that lets users upload videos, contains plenty of material that Viacom does not own the rights to, according to Ars Technica . This could present a problem in Viacom's lawsuit against youtube for copyright infringement. Especially since youtube appears to take a more active role in deleting illegal content from its site than iFilm.*"L...